{"id":529176,"date":"2021-05-20T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529176"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:05:22","slug":"flashback-ocasio-cortez-admits-she-has-no-clue-what-shes-talking-about-immediately-after-attacking-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-ocasio-cortez-admits-she-has-no-clue-what-shes-talking-about-immediately-after-attacking-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Ocasio-Cortez Admits She Has No Clue What She\u2019s Talking About Immediately After Attacking Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-ocasio-cortez-admits-she-has-no-clue-what-shes-talking-about-immediately-after-attacking-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-speaks-about-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-in-2018-on-PBS-TwitterScreenshotRyan-Saavedra-scaled-e1621521386408.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once admitted she wasn\u2019t an expert on Middle Eastern conflicts after she was pressed for her opinion on the \u201coccupation of Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a 2018 interview on PBS\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d with Margaret Hoover, Ocasio-Cortez said Palestine was being occupied but was unable to elaborate on what occupation meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also think that what people are starting to see, at least in the occupation of Palestine, is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition and that to me is just where I tend to come from on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.386206896552\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks Israel, calls them the occupiers of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on what she meant she struggled to give an answer and then admitted she does not know what she is talking about. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e3Uq1eupD3\">pic.twitter.com\/e3Uq1eupD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1018707668993626112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoover then pressed Ocasio-Cortez on what she meant by the \u201coccupation of Palestine\u201d and Ocasio-Cortez appeared to become flustered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUmm, I think what I meant is like the settlements that are increasing in some of these areas and places where Palestinians are experiencing difficulty in access to their housing and homes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez gets pressed again to expand her thought but is unable to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah I mean I think I also would just: I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-starts-controversy-with-comments-on-israeli-occupation-admits-shes-not-the-expert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> laughing. \u201cI am a firm believer in finding a two-state solution on this issue, and I\u2019m happy to sit down with leaders on both of these \u2013 for me, I just look at things through a human-rights lens, and I may not use the right words. I know this is a very intense issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, said Ocasio-Cortez didn\u2019t understand what she was talking about in a tweet at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.5770750988142\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Road to hell paved with good intentions and scant knowledge. Happy to provide info to Alexandra who knows zero about 3,500 yr relationship of Jewish people to Land of Israel<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUqVpxtG5x\">https:\/\/t.co\/DUqVpxtG5x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonwiesenthal\/status\/1018921959130836993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite admitting nearly three years ago that she was not an expert on the conflict, Ocasio-Cortez has since taken a strong pro-Palestine stance. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/israeli-palestinian-conflict-moderate-democrats-squad-nancy-pelosi-aoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: How The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Dividing Democrats)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-joe-biden-israel-right-to-defend-itself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> President Joe Biden for \u201ctaking the side of occupation\u201d after he expressed support for Israel following a barrage of rocket attacks against the Jewish state from Hamas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.535714285714\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By only stepping in to name Hamas\u2019 actions \u2013 which are condemnable \u2013 &amp; refusing to acknowledge the rights of Palestinians, Biden reinforces the false idea that Palestinians instigated this cycle of violence.<\/p>\n<p>This is not neutral language. It takes a side \u2013 the side of occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1392603320066400266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez also slammed the U.S. government for their intended sale of weapons to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States should not be rubber-stamping weapons sales to the Israeli government as they deploy our resources to target international media outlets, schools, hospitals, humanitarian missions and civilian sites for bombing. We have a responsibility to protect human rights,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1395054704086892545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/joe-biden-administration-approves-735-million-weapons-sale-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved<\/a> $735 million in weapons sales to Israel in the beginning of the month, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/KXD71#selection-793.122-819.48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported. Congress reportedly knew about the sale one week prior to Hamas\u2019 indiscriminate attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once admitted she wasn\u2019t an expert on Middle Eastern conflicts after she was pressed for her opinion on the \u201coccupation of Palestine.\u201dDuring a 2018 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312453,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-speaks-about-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-in-2018-on-PBS-TwitterScreenshotRyan-Saavedra-scaled-e1621521386408.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Ocasio-Cortez Admits She Has No Clue What She\u2019s Talking About Immediately After Attacking Israel","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-speaks-about-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict-in-2018-on-PBS-TwitterScreenshotRyan-Saavedra-scaled-e1621521386408.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Ocasio-Cortez Admits She Has No Clue What She\u2019s Talking About Immediately After Attacking Israel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}