AOC’s statement is blatantly inflammatory and inciting in an already volatile climate, in which antisemitism is soaring. Israel has no intent to commit genocide. It has announced repeatedly that its intent is to eliminate the threat of Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Joe Biden several days ago (courtesy: Israel Government Press Office):
It is impossible to defeat Hamas without the IDF entering the Gaza Strip. In our latest conversation, I told him: It is impossible to complete the victory without the IDF entering Rafah in order to eliminate the remnants of Hamas’s battalions.
I want you to know that I have already approved the IDF’s operational plan, and soon we will also approve the plan to evacuate the civilian population from the battle zones.
While AOC states that “if you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” she hasn’t opened her own eyes.
Hamas continues to use Gazans as human shields, which either AOC does not know or is deceptively omitting from mention. And while Palestinian refugees can seek refuge in Egypt, Egypt doesn’t want them. AOC et al are not calling out Egypt. There are some Palestinian refugees who are escaping from Rafah into Egypt, but only because they are “paying thousands of dollars to fixers connected to the Egyptian government.” These Egyptian government-connected “fixers” are lining their pockets with “exorbitant” amounts of cash handed over to them in desperation by refugees. They’re motivated by money and not by any desire to save lives, yet Leftists don’t criticize them.
The Biden administration (along with the UN and other anti-Israel globalists) and AOC refuse to condemn Egypt, which is ironic in light of the free-for-all Biden has created at the American Southern border, where literally anyone can enter the country as an economic migrant.
The global focus should be on helping Israel fight for its existence against jihadis who would destroy it as part of their larger goal of establishing a global caliphate.
“Ocasio-Cortez defends accusing Israel of genocide: ‘I believe we have crossed the threshold of intent,’” by Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, March 24, 2024:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday defended her claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, arguing the humanitarian situation in the enclave has “crossed the threshold of intent.”
Asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper about her labeling of Israel’s wartime actions as “genocide,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “The word is extremely serious. It’s one that’s taken with extraordinary gravity. And, to me, the threshold of intent is a high one, it is a serious one, and it is not one that is made lightly.”
“However, when we look at the precipice of what is happening, with a forced famine of 1.1 million Gazans — where multiple governments, [nongovernmental organizations], and even officials within the United States State Department have stated themselves plainly that the Israeli government and leaders in the Israeli government are intentionally denying, blocking and slow-walking this aid and are precipitating a mass famine — I believe we have crossed the threshold of intent,” she said.
The comments come days after her House floor speech Friday, when she called on the Biden administration to halt military aid to Israel and described the nation’s bombardment of Gaza as an “unfolding genocide.”
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor. “It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away.”
She doubled down on these comments Sunday, telling Tapper, “I think it is extremely clear and it is extremely important that all people understand the difference between people and their governments, Israelis and the Israeli government, Palestinians from Hamas.”
AlbertTatlock says
How utterly evil are these people? Every chance they get, they choose evil over good. Every time.
It is the MOHAMMEDANS who have the “intention” to commit genocide by doing away with the Jews.
Just ask one of them.
As for there being a difference between the people living in Gaza and Hamas – it was the people living in Gaza who VOTED FOR THEM!!!!
Sigh, I know everyone reading this website knows all this already, but it’s so frustrating and annoying watching these evil, treacherous politicians do everything in their power to advance the cause of the false, Satanic ersatz “religion” of Mohammedanism. I wonder how AOC would feel about it if she’d been mounted by a 54 year old bearded gentleman at the age of 9? If she had to wear a black sheet over her face all the time? If she had her genitals cut off with a rusty knife before she reached puberty?
bill says
What is amazing is that Israel has put up with this regime for so long. A regime that says in its own charter its aim is the elimination of the sovereign state of Israel.. A regime that has carried out thousands of murders and attempted murders of innocent Israeli citizens. A regime that has fired thousands of rockets onto Israeli territory with sole intent of killing Jews. Yet the world seems to think it should tolerate it, not that they would themselves. The Gazans seemed to be ahppy with their Nazi overlords just like the Germans were mostly happy with Hitler as long as his armies
had conquests. They were happy with their children being educated to hate Jews and learning how best to kill them. Mothers seemed happy to have their chidren be suicide bombers. So I do not have a lot of sympathy for them. They made their bed and now they must lie on it.
Dov Berrol says
More “turnspeak” by the lying enemies of Israel. It is Islam and the Arab nation that seek to commit genocide against the Hebrew-Israelite-Jewish nation. Why don’t they pick on someone their own size? 1.5 billion Muslims against 15 million Jews. It’s quite obvious who is the victim here.
Taffy says
Methinks that AOC’s top ability lies in making a rum and Coke. Adding a twist of lime may tax her mental power.
maria says
Yes she is an idiot and she should be kicked out and sent to her homeland Cuba
She is a danger in the US exactly as the “squad” Ilhan Omar , Ayanna Presseley, RAshida Tlaib,Jamaal Bowman
They should be arrested and annihilated
somehistory says
She “thinks”….I find that hard to believe. She would need a brain for that.
She “believes”….not sure one can trust her words about what she actually “believes,” but if she really does “believe” this stuff, she’s one very arrogant and clueless idiot.
She argued with at least two different people about what RICO is, she stating that it isn’t a crime, but a “category.”
She doesn’t understand about “genocide” either. The mozlums are the ones with the “intent” to commit “genocide” and they won’t stop on their own. mozlums “intent on genocide” are getting much support for their evil goals. And she is one of the biggest supporters of this intended genocide.
She defended i. elmi, alias, i. omar, when that ugly ghoul showed her enthusiastic support for hamas and what it has done and is doing. She said that criticism of elmi was the fake phobia and that the CNN guy had to stop saying what he was about i.elmi.
The people of the district she pretends to represent are tired of her. They are blaming her for the illegals…criminal trespassers….being given apartments. There is a guy running against her. Maybe he will win. And her loudmouth, lying loudmouth, will be somewhat silenced.
Wellington says
She’s a menace to freedom and common sense but then there are a ton of such people in American government nowadays, though she’s extra awful because of the unwarranted influence she possesses.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Yes.
It’s amazing that a congresswoman can be that profoundly stupid – and, yet, still wield a fair amount of power and influence.
But, come to think of it, there are a few others…
Walter Sieruk says
That claim of genocide by the enemies of the Jewish State of Israel as for example. Alexandria Cortez. is a false completely claim.
One reliable newspaper had put it this way “One accusation is that Israel has engaged in genocide against the Palestinians. However, the facts show a vast increase in the Palestinian population, from 156,000 to 2,100,000 in Israel…” [1]
[1] THE EPOCH TIMES January 3-9, 2024, A15
Walter Sieruk says
That claim by Alexandria Cortez is not only a bogus claim but it’s such a falsehood of a statement that it’s complete balderdash thing to allege.
For actual, real, intention of Hamas is the genocide of the Jewish people that’s the goal of Hamas and not of those in power in the State of Israel regarding the “Palestine” people.
About innocent those children who died in Gaza because the jihadists Hamas hiding among places with children. Also this current war that Hamas started this with Israel on October 7th when it launched its brutal vicious and murderous and even vile and heinous jihadist attacks on the peaceful Jewish citizens of the State of Israel.
Those innocent children who died in Gaza because of Israel’s air force was not the intention of the government and military officials of Israel.
Those youngster who had been killed had died because those despicable jihadists of Hamas, because they are so very callous and cruel that they deliberately stationed their jihad strategy command and weapon centers at buildings that have children in and around those places.
Therefore the bloodguilt for the death of those children of Gaza on the wicked hands of the Hamas jihadists.
Rick Gordon says
AOC and the rest of her ‘squad’ are an embarrassment to the country. I think that sums it up.
abu taleb says
Not just AOC and the squad. Biden, the US government, military, and lawmaker are a laughing stock in the world, only they don’t realize it, or don’t care.
40 rounds says
Who can possibly be impressed with her other than her obviously blithering idiot constituents. Oh, and fifteen year old boys.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Does AOC use belladonna on her eyes for that look?
James Lincoln says
Actually, that look is due to the fact that her brains have fallen out.
OLD GUY says
A.O.C. would know, she’s has lots of experience in fighting wars and leading a country that is under attach. She was after all a student and a BAR TENDER. Great credentials for leading our country. Hope we don’t have to defend ourselves too soon, although our open borders are making that look eminent.
somehistory says
An interesting view from Gregg Jarrett on aoc and some of her many claims. His last sentence is the best.
“Gregg Jarrett slams ‘uninformed’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for seizure of Donald Trump’s assets on ‘Fox & Friends'”
“”I have no idea what she was saying, I don’t really think she does,” Jarrett told co-host Jones during the segment.
“You know, trying to make sense of anything AOC says is sort of a favorite Washington parlor game,” he continued. “She has this uncanny ability to talk incessantly while saying absolutely nothing. And that is because she is hopelessly uninformed, terminally obtuse, and I think just plain ignorant.”
“This is the same person a week ago who said RICO or racketeering is not a crime. No sane person takes AOC seriously, which I suppose is why she’s always featured on CNN,” added the analyst.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gregg-jarrett-slams-uninformed-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-call-for-seizure-of-donald-trump-s-assets-on-fox-friends/ar-BB1kxRjk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=91f03ef823f740a58237cad98f92c54d&ei=119