Rep Donna Edwards - Progressive Democrat Of Maryland - Is Concerned About Minorities In Israel

I told you that I knew how to spot them.

Before Rep. Donna Edwards, of Maryland’s Fourth Congressional district, traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time in May, she hadn’t thought much about minorities in the Jewish state: “As an African-American woman, I really didn't have a perception of a significant minority population in Israel, and there is,” she told the Washington Jewish Week, adding that minority rights in Israel are “a work in progress.”

You have to understand the perspective from which Donna Edwards comes from. She is no doubt a "Blame America First" type 'incremental revolutionary' akin to Cynthia McKinney and others.

I have been keeping an eye on Rep Edwards.

Don't judge the veracity of Donna Edwards' statements about how the "minorities" in Israel are treated.

Instead go to the other nations in the area and judge how RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN THOSE NATIONS ARE TREATED.

I simply don't understand Progressive Operatives some times. Why do you all look past people who DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK and instead focus on "the Establishment Players", choosing to beat upon them until they yield.

Ms Edwards - please go to Saudi Arabia and ask them if they allow Christian churches to be constructed in their land. Notice that Ms Edwards said nothing when Egypt, a Muslim nation confiscated and then slaughtered all of the pigs in their country under the cover of the "Swine Flu". It just so happened that there was no "Swine Flu" cases among these pigs when they were killed and that the Christians who operate at the lowest rungs of the Egyptian society had their lives largely revolving around tending to these swine.

Please do not be fooled people. Keep an eye on the "progressive/revolutionary" causes that Ms Edwards gets ensnared in. Of course her particular district is one of the most wealthy majority Black districts in the nation. There is a healthy economy in the area as a good portion of these people work within the federal government.

“I’m not sure how much of the criticism is coming from my district so much as it’s coming from national pro-Israel leadership,” Edwards says. Jews make up about 15 percent of her constituents. But the cosmopolitan, heavily Democratic, majority-black district also houses a significant Muslim-American community and is among the wealthiest African-American populations in the nation. And Edwards isn’t worried about alienating these voters. “I feel like I very much represent the sentiments of people in my district, who agree with President Obama that the United States needs to play an active and engaged role, and we have to have a much more moderate approach.”

Middle East policy has been a signal priority of the Obama administration, which has made no secret of its aggressive pursuit of a two-state solution in the holy land. But, even as the geopolitics of the region—and U.S. relations with Israel, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and other parties—evolve, the Edwards flap, and her measured response to it, illustrate the new dynamics in play on the American political left. In part because of the new tone the president has set on the Israel-Palestine debate, progressives are no longer easily rattled by threats from the Jewish right.

The most laughable claim is that while Ms Edwards is for a "two state solution" and a more regional approach - she is not interested in how other minorities in the region are treated - beyond those in Israel.

What a surprise.