Wishing the Best to Rashida

Her family’s story is typical of many Palestinians, with relatives scattered across the West Bank, Jordan and the United States. Rashida Tlaib (42) (pic: Pelosi swearing in  the new representative) is the eldest of fourteen children of a Palestinian immigrant to Detroit. The mukhtar Mohammed Tlaib said some 50 people from the illegal Arab settlement on Road 433 have immigrated to the US and now have children in schools and universities in America. 

“It’s a great honour for this small town. It’s a great honour for the Palestinian people to have Rashida in the Congress,” said Mohammed Tlaib, the village’s former mayor and a distant relative. “For sure she will serve Palestine, for sure she will serve the interests of her nation. She is deeply rooted here."

Let me add my congratulations and sincere best wishes for Rashida. I am happy that she and her numerous family have left Israel and are prospering far away. Already I feel safer driving on Route 433 to Jerusalem knowing that fewer Shahabs are throwing stones to Israeli vehicles. And Hon. Muhammed is wrong, she is not deeply rooted here, since she and her hamoolah abandoned their ancestral land for the Goldene Medine. Many Palestinians have reached high political positions in Latin America and now in the USA, and caused us no further problems. From this Kever Benjamin settlement, I wish 

All the Best, Rashida!