Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., published an opinion piece in the Washington Post that, in a vacuum, would be considered remarkably milquetoast if not a little ill-informed on foreign policy. It’s a relatively isolationist screed replete with casual straw men about America’s global presence and a compelling personal conceit using her history as a refugee to tie the whole thing together.
It would be a perfectly sub-par piece, maybe even mediocre if we’re giving brownie points to appeals to pathos, if only I could believe one word of it.
Omar has proven, time and time again, that she’s a liar who is fundamentally disdainful of Jews, unwilling to learn from her mistakes and the intelligence of her constituents in general.
For example, throughout her congressional election campaign, she maintained that she opposed the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement against Israel. Then, the moment she took office, she pulled a complete 180 on the matter. Please take note, congresswoman, that pulling a “360” would imply coming full circle and resulting in the original position on an issue.
Since taking office, Omar has immersed herself in a new anti-Semitic brouhaha approximately every fortnight or two, in between insincere apologies. She’s nothing more than a discount Linda Sarsour, with whom she’s palled around more than once with, but one that tries and fails to equivocate about her anti-Semitism.
In the battle to become David Duke’s favorite member of Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., probably maintains the lead simply due to her explicit support of the annihilation of the state of Israel. With this latest opinion piece, Omar continues to differentiate herself from Tlaib in this respect, asserting that she supports “a two-state solution, with internationally recognized borders, which allows for both Israelis and Palestinians to have their own sanctuaries and self-determination,” well within the American mainstream.
But Omar’s made a mockery of her integrity one time too many. Her flip-flops on policy and apologies have rendered her credibility nil, and her ire for Israeli sovereignty runs so deep that she can hardly hold back the anti-Semitic tropes and lies flowing out through her mouth.
American society requires grace and the opportunity to seek forgiveness to function, but Omar has burned through all that goodwill fewer than three months into her tenure on the national stage. And none of this is new. For years, she’s blamed Israel and America for global terrorism, keeping company as unpalatable as her foreign policy opinions.
Perhaps if Omar displayed one modicum of genuine remorse and decided to sit out a month of self-inflicted controversies, I’d be willing to show an iota more benefit of the doubt. But Omar’s no infantile refugee fresh off the boat. She’s been in this country longer than I’ve been alive, and it seems as though she’s held these views for at least the better part of a decade.
Omar has already shown us who she is. The Washington Post piece is nothing but bland words reminding us of nothing important, other than the perils of politicians who lie about their true intentions.
