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nitpicker

(7,153 posts) Fri Aug 16, 2019, 05:13 AM Aug 2019

Tlaib approved to visit grandmother

Just now breaking per NPR radio and the below Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/search?q=rashida+tlaib+grandmother&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

And now from Jpost:

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Rashida-Tlaib-requests-permission-for-humanitarian-visit-to-Israel-598812

Interior minister Deri approves Rashida Tlaib’s request to enter Israel

"I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa," the Congresswoman wrote.
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Tlaib approved to visit grandmother (Original Post) nitpicker Aug 2019 OP

She is being allowed in on humanitarian grounds Takket Aug 2019 #1

How "big" of them! BlueMTexpat Aug 2019 #2

Remember when we had a REAL Scarsdale Aug 2019 #3

Takket

(21,592 posts)

1. She is being allowed in on humanitarian grounds

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 05:35 AM

Aug 2019

And has agreed not to promote any boycotts while there.

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)

2. How "big" of them!

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 06:31 AM

Aug 2019

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

3. Remember when we had a REAL

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 07:09 AM

Aug 2019

adult President, and the gop quietly invited Netanyahu to address them in Washington without letting President Obama know about it? THAT was so disrespectful. Now, Bibi is preventing US elected officials from openly visiting, when his country gets BILLIONS in aid from the US. It is time for an accounting on just where those billions go, since the Netanyahu's are proven crooks. Israel gets plenty of aid from Russia, I am certain.

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