Ro Khanna’s West Bank ‘hostage’ stunt is a new low – Latest News
Rep. Ro Khanna’s newest showboating stunt is an excessive amount of even for different Democratic electeds — not solely a clear ploy to get previous his all-in guess on the Graham Platner marketing campaign, however a transparently pathetic bid to play sufferer of these darn Israelis.
Just days after his scorched-earth protection of the Maine Senate candidate did not stop the implosion, Khanna (D-Calif.) rushed off to the Middle East to change his storyline.
He headed to the West Bank, deliberately directing his entourage into a restricted zone, then pretended he’d been taken hostage by Israeli “settlers” run amok.
In actuality, he was briefly stopped by native security; after the military checked out his story he was free to proceed on his inane “fact-finding” mission.
Khanna’s subsequent whining that it’s “unprecedented” and “illegal” for an “American citizen” to be stopped in a high-security space overseas is not solely absurd, it’s the last word entitled “ugly American” conduct.
Any American, even an elected official, who makes an unscheduled and unannounced journey to a contained space in another half of the world would moderately count on to be stopped and questioned.
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Notice that none of Khanna’s House colleagues have stepped up to defend him: Even different progressives are sick of this self-promoting phony.
Khanna, maybe the wealthiest Democrat in Congress, is even crying that he was stopped for being “brown” — utter nonsense when many Palestinians are fair-skinned and plenty of Israelis (Jewish in addition to Arab) are dark-skinned.
The most shameless self-promoter in Washington can bang on all he likes about Israeli “apartheid,” but it surely has nothing to do with the actual factor, nor even American racial divides.
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This is the most cost effective doable demagoguery, interesting solely to probably the most ignorant in his home viewers.
More posturing: Having staged his “victimhood” in entrance of a New York Times photographer, he proceeded to speak up his ambition to hunt the presidency, pretending to warn Israelis that he would possibly quickly be operating the world.
Hah! He’s even more of a joke than Kamala Harris.
But Khanna is resistant to disgrace or self-doubt: He’s not even embarrassed by his naming of full innocents as supposed Jeffrey Epstein confederates, nor his silly embrace of an apparent fraud like Platner.
This pustulation on the rear finish of American democracy will certainly pop or desiccate sooner or later.
The actual disgrace is that now we have to put up along with his camera-hogging as we watch for it to occur.
