“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

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    3 days ago

    DEMOCRATS DIVIDED OVER ISRAELI CONDUCT

    Ah, so support must be like 50/50, huh?

    Israel’s favorability rating among Democrats fell from 59% in 2018 to 22% in May, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.

    Hm. Not that divided, eh?

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      Should’ve dropped that support right before the election. The world wouldn’t have to deal with a moron.

      Now that their PR is on freefall, they pretend to be “divided” just enough to pass pro-israel policies with the republicans, while still trying to portray themselves as “opposition”