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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks at the opening plenary session of the NAACP 110th National Convention at the COBO Center on July 22, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. The convention is from July 20 to July 24 with the theme of, "When We Fight, We Win".
- Representative Rashida Tlaib from Detroit, Michigan $4 of a humanitarian visit to see her elderly grandmother in the West Bank after she and Representative Ilhan Omar from Minneapolis $4 from visiting the country on Thursday.
- President Donald Trump, who $4 Israel to bar Tlaib and Omar from visiting the country, $4 on Friday that the only "real winner" in Tlaib turning her approval down was her grandmother, who "doesn't have to see her now."
- Tlaib's grandmother reacted to Trump's tweet on Saturday, $4 from her garden in the village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa that "Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming. May God ruin him."
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After her granddaughter, a US congresswoman, was barred from entering her country, then attacked by the president on Twitter, 90-year-old Muftia Tlaib had some choice words for President Donald Trump:
"Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming," the elder Tlaib $4, from her garden in the village of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa on the West Bank. "May God ruin him."
The latest turn in an $4 between the US president, the country of Israel, and Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, Tlaib's grandmother's seething words came after Trump's $4 and Tlaib's $4 the terms of a humanitarian visit to see her Palestinian family.
On Thursday, after Trump $4 Israel to block a visit from Tlaib, from Detroit, and Omar, from Minneapolis, the country $4 the two freshman congresswomen from their planned trips to the contested land they call Palestine, but is officially regarded by Israel as its own territory.
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In his official reasoning, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin $4 the congresswomen's itineraries "clarified that they planned a visit whose sole purpose was to support boycotts and deny Israel's legitimacy."
Initially, Tlaib wrote a letter asking to be let in to see her elderly grandmother despite the ban, stating that she would not boycott Israel during her visit. Her request $4 by Israel's Interior Minister, but Tlaib then $4 her visit on Twitter, citing the country's "oppressive conditions."
On Friday, Trump $4 that "Israel was very respectful & nice to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, allowing her permission to visit her 'grandmother.' As soon as she was granted permission, she grandstanded & loudly proclaimed she would not visit Israel. Could this possibly have been a setup? Israel acted appropriately!"
He followed that tweet with "Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib's grandmother. She doesn't have to see her now!"
In her retort, Tlaib's grandmother $4 that "It's been a long time since I've seen her - five to six years. But sometimes I see her on TV and talk with her on the phone."
"Why didn't they allow her to come here?" Muftia $4 on Saturday. "I can't do anything. I'm really very sad. I hope, inshallah, that she will come back. I'm waiting for her."
Israel was very respectful & nice to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, allowing her permission to visit her "grandmother." As soon as she was granted permission, she grandstanded & loudly proclaimed she would not visit Israel. Could this possibly have been a setup? Israel acted appropriately!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) $4Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. The only real winner here is Tlaib's grandmother. She doesn't have to see her now!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) $4