Wonderful. Today we are here to highlight the human cost of occupation and travel restrictions. The human cost of the occupation and travel restrictions on palestinians and others. As many of you know, i had planned to travel to israel and palestine to hear from individuals on the ground about the conflict, so i could be more informed as a member of congress and as a member of the Foreign Affairs committee. Contrary to many media reports and the statements of the israeli Prime Minister, i plan to meet directly with members of the knesset and members of Palestinian Civil Society groups, former soldiers, palestine and Israel International organizations and United Nations officials. Leading up to the trip, i met with constituents holding a wide range of views on the conflicts. All the activities on my trip had been done by members of congress in the past. Including a nearly identical trip a few years ago led by the same Palestinian Organization leading this trip. In addition to me and ras
Thank you, everyone for being here. Sorry for being late, there were some traffic detours. I am so glad to be here with my sister rashida today. Today we are here to highlight before i actually start, we were supposed to have a couple other speakers. Are they in the room . Would you join us . How are you . Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you for speaking up. Rep. Omar today we are here to highlight the human cost of the occupation and travel restrictions on palestinians and others. As many of you know, i had planned to travel to israel and palestine to hear from individuals on the ground about the conflict, so i could be more informed as a member of congress and as a member of the Foreign Affairs committee. Contrary to many media reports and the statements of the israeli Prime Minister, i plan to meet directly with members of the knesset and members of Palestinian Civil Society groups, former soldiers, palestine and Israel International organizations and United Nations officials
Twitter. Com cspanwj, on cspan, its facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling in now. The United States is currently the largest foreign aid donor in the world, accounting for some 25 of worldwide Assistance Spending in 2017, but President Trump wants to cut back. Heres the president from sunday. President trump i support many of those that were negotiated out but ive cut back a lot on countries we give billions of dollars to countries that dont even like us and ive been cutting back a lot. We get billions and billions of dollars to countries that dont like us, dont like us even a little bit and ive been cutting that and weve jut put a package of about 4 billion additional dollars in. And in some case, i could see it both ways. In some case, these are countries that we should not be giving to. Reporter how do you see cutting aids as helping the United States though . Does it make it safer . President trump i dont think so. No, i dont think so. And if i thalled it would, i would probab
How are you. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you for speaking up. Rep. Omar today we are here to highlight a human cost of the occupation on palestinians and many others. As many of you know, i had planned to travel to israel and palestine to hear from individuals on the ground about the conflict saw it could be more informed as a member of congress and as a member of the Foreign Affairs committee. Contrary to many media reports and the statements of the israeli Prime Minister, i plan to meet directly with members of and members of Palestinian Civil Society groups, former soldiers, is, palestine and International Organizations and United Nations officials. Leading up to the trip, i met with constituents holding a wide range of views on the conflicts. All the activities on my trip had been done by members of congress in the past. Including a nearly identical trip a few years ago led by the same Palestinian Organization leading this trip. In addition to me and rashida going on the
Sister rashida today. We are here to highlight before i actually start, we were supposed to have other speakers. Are they in the room . How are you . Thank you for coming. Rep. Omar wonderful. Today we are here to highlight the human cost of occupation and travel restrictions. I had planned to travel to israel and palestine to hear from individuals on the ground about the conflict so that i could be more informed as a member of congress and as a member on the Foreign Affairs committee. Contrary to many media reports and statements of the israeli Prime Minister, i planned to oft directly with members Israeli Security along with Palestinian Civil Society groups, former soldiers, israel, palestine, and international organizations, and United Nations officials. Leading up to the trip, i met with constituents holding a wide range of views on the conflict. All the activities on my trip had been done by members of congress in the past. Including a nearly identical trip a few years ago led by