Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) applauded President Joe Biden’s declaration that Israel may stop the United States from using artillery and other weapons in Rafah, Hamas’s final enclave.
Omar claimed in a blog on X that Biden’s remarks about” no providing” Israel with the arms to attack Rafah were “what young people across the country” had been protesting around, referring to the anti-Israel protests and camps that were set up on university and college campuses across the country.
Rep. Ilhan Omar ( D- MN) hold a press event in front of the U. S. Capitol to call for a ceasefire and close to the Jewish strikes on Gaza in Washington, DC, on February 29, 2024. ( Celal Güne/Anadolu via Getty Images )
Omar’s child, Isra Hirsi, was suspended , and arrested from her school over her role in an pro- Israel camp that had been established at Columbia University on April 17, which resulted in encampments being established at different universities.
A number of demands were made by protesters who had participated in the different encampments and demonstrations, including a peace for Israeli students, the abolition of academic ties with Israeli academic institutions, and the U.S. stopping arming Israel.
On April 26, 2024, a pro-Palestine show camp can be seen at Columbia University in New York. ( AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura )
The knife has finally moved in a major way, Omar wrote,” This is what younger people across the country were protesting for.” Do n’t ever let anyone tell you that your actions and voices have no value, though I hope there will be more progress. We are always free to stretch the circle of what is possible.
Youth all over the country were protesting against this, and now a major change has been made. Do n’t ever let anyone tell you that your actions and voices have no value, though I hope there will be more progress. The arc of what is possible is … https ://t.co/1zXh3E96Sy
— Ilhan Omar ( @IlhanMN) May 9, 2024
During an interview on CNN, Biden said that he had” made it clear” that if Israel begins a complete- scale war on Rafah, the U. S. would not provide them with arms.
According to Biniden,” citizens have been killed in Gaza as a result of those bombs and various methods of pursuing population facilities.”
Biden added:” I made it clear that if they go into Rafah, they have n’t gone into Rafah however, if they go into Rafah— I’m no supplying the arms that have been used generally to deal with Rafah, to deal with the settlements, to deal with that trouble.”
After Hamas fired a barrage of missiles Sunday afternoon towards the Kerem Shalom border cross, Israel sent tanks into Rafah and seized control of the border crossing it shares with Egypt.
