{"id":40546,"date":"2019-08-19T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40546"},"modified":"2019-08-19T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:24:33","slug":"syria-kurds-hand-over-four-daesh-linked-children-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40546","title":{"rendered":"Syria Kurds hand over four Daesh-linked children to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nST. PAUL, Minnesota: Democratic US Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference Monday afternoon on travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied entry into Israel last week.<br \/>At the urging of President Donald Trump, Israel denied entry to the two Muslim representatives over their support for the Palestinian-led boycott movement. Tlaib and Omar, who had planned to visit Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank on a tour organized by a Palestinian group, are outspoken critics of Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians and support the Palestinian-led international movement boycotting Israel.<br \/>Before Israel\u2019s decision, Trump tweeted it would be a \u201cshow of weakness\u201d to allow the two representatives in. Israel controls entry and exit to the West Bank, which it seized in the 1967 Mideast war along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip \u2014 territories the Palestinians want for a future state.<br \/>Trump\u2019s request to a foreign country to bar the entry of elected US officials \u2014 and Israel\u2019s decision to do so \u2014 were unprecedented and drew widespread criticism, including from many Israelis as well as staunch supporters of Israel in Congress. Critics said Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s decision was a reckless gamble and risked turning Israel into a partisan issue and threatened to undermine ties between the close allies.<br \/>Tlaib and Omar are known as supporters of \u201cboycott, divestment and sanctions,\u201d or BDS, a Palestinian-led global movement. Supporters say the movement is a nonviolent way of protesting Israel\u2019s military rule over the occupied territories.<br \/>Last week, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Tlaib had requested and been granted permission to enter the West Bank to see her aging grandmother. Deri\u2019s office released a letter that it said was from Tlaib , which promised to respect travel restrictions during her visit. But after the announcement, Tlaib tweeted she wouldn\u2019t allow Israel to use her love for her grandmother to force her to \u201cbow down to their oppressive &#038; racist policies.\u201d<br \/>The two congresswomen are part of the \u201csquad\u201d of liberal newcomers \u2014 all women of color \u2014 whom Trump has labeled as the face of the Democratic Party as he runs for re-election. He subjected them to a series of racist tweets last month in which he called on them to \u201cgo back\u201d to their \u201cbroken\u201d countries. They are US citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minnesota: Democratic US Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference Monday afternoon on travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied entry into Israel last week.At the urging of President Donald Trump, Israel denied entry to the two Muslim representatives over their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}