民主党众议员拉希达·特拉伊布正面临第二次谴责决议，因为她批评以色列周二，当她为自己对这场致命冲突的观点辩护时，变得情绪激动。
Tlaib在辩论由共和党众议员Rich McCormick提出的一项决议时发言。，这将谴责她“推动关于2023年10月7日哈马斯袭击以色列的虚假叙述，并呼吁摧毁以色列国。”
Tlaib的批评者指出她使用了短语“从河流到海洋”，这被一些人认为是呼吁结束以色列的存在。然而，Tlaib说，这是“对自由、人权和和平共处的渴望，而不是死亡、毁灭或仇恨。”
在她的一些进步民主党同事的包围下，Tlaib说她不会“沉默”,并指责成员歪曲她的话。
“我真不敢相信我们不得不说这些，但是巴勒斯坦人民不是可以抛弃的，”她说，然后她流下了几秒钟的眼泪。明尼苏达州众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔(Ilhan Omar)站起来安慰特莱布，然后她继续说道。
“我们和其他人一样，也是人。我的同学，我的祖母——像所有的巴勒斯坦人一样——只想过我们都应得的自由和人类尊严的生活。“在这个会议厅里，大声疾呼拯救生命，无论信仰如何，无论种族如何，都不应该引起争议。对我来说，巴勒斯坦和以色列儿童的哭声没有什么不同。我不明白的是，为什么巴勒斯坦儿童的哭声对你们所有人来说听起来都不一样。我们不能失去我们共有的人性。”
2023年11月7日，华盛顿特区，众议员Rashida Tlaib在众议院发言时举着她祖母的照片
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众议院民主党人试图搁置或实际上扼杀麦考密克决议的努力在周二下午失败了。根据众议院多数党党鞭汤姆·艾默(Tom Emmer)更新的时间表，众议院周二就谴责决议进行了辩论，预计将于周三举行最终表决。
谴责国会议员的投票除了公开谴责议员的行为之外，并不具有任何权力。它不否认在国会的特权或驱逐成员。谴责决议的通过只需要简单多数即可。
谴责是相对罕见的-历史上只有25名众议院议员受到谴责。.
这将是几周来第二次试图谴责Tlaib第一位巴勒斯坦裔美国国会议员，因为她在以色列对哈马斯致命恐怖袭击的反应中对以色列发表了有争议的评论。美国认定哈马斯为恐怖组织。
据以色列官员称，自10月7日的突袭以来，以色列已有至少1400人死亡，6900人受伤。据哈马斯控制的加沙卫生部称，在邻近的加沙地带，以色列国防军正在深化其行动，已有1万多人丧生，近2.6万人受伤。
第一项决议上周由共和党众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林(Marjorie Taylor Greene)提出，在一些共和党人的帮助下被众议院民主党人否决。众议院以222票对186票否决了佐治亚州女议员的努力。
Tlaib首先引起了一些同事的愤怒，因为拒绝道歉指责以色列在加沙制造致命的医院爆炸，美国官员认为爆炸是由巴勒斯坦伊斯兰圣战组织的火箭造成的。
最近，她因呼吁停火而面临阻力以色列-加沙战争继续肆虐。她甚至指责总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)支持巴勒斯坦的“种族灭绝”，因为他的政府拒绝全面停火，尽管拜登呼吁暂时停止战斗，允许人道主义援助进入，让平民离开。
Tlaib在众议院的五分钟演讲中为自己的观点辩护。
“让我明确指出:我一直批评以色列政府和内塔尼亚胡的行动。主席先生，把人民和政府分开很重要，没有一个政府是无可非议的。“批评以色列政府是反犹太主义的想法树立了一个非常危险的先例，它被用来压制全国各地为人权大声疾呼的不同声音。”
她还再次把矛头指向拜登总统，特别是他过去质疑哈马斯控制的加沙卫生部提供的死亡人数统计数字的评论，以及他对全面停火的抵制。
“71%的密歇根州民主党人支持停火。所以，你可以试图指责我，但你不能压制他们的声音……拜登总统必须听取并代表我们所有人，而不仅仅是我们中的一些人，”她说。
周二晚些时候，众议院也计划采取行动格林修改后的决议谴责Tlaib。
格林从上周起改变了她的决议，删除了指责Tlaib在10月18日亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动中领导“起义”的措辞。在新的决议中，格林写道，Tlaib通过抗议“煽动了对美国国会大厦的非法占领”。
Tlaib tears up as she defends against censure move over Israel criticism
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is facing a second censure resolution over her criticism ofIsrael, became emotional on the House floor Tuesday as she defended her views on the deadly conflict.
Tlaib rose to speak during debate on a resolution introduced by Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., that would censure her for "promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel."
Tlaib's critics point to her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence. Tlaib, however, has said it's "an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate."
Surrounded by some of her progressive Democratic colleagues, Tlaib said she would not be "silenced" and accused members of distorting her words.
"I can't believe we have to say this but Palestinian people are not disposable," she said before she broke down in tears for several seconds. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., stood to comfort Tlaib before she continued.
"We are human beings just like anyone else. My sity, my grandmother -- like all Palestinians -- just wants to live her life with freedom and human dignity we all deserve," she said. "Speaking up to save lives no matter faith, no matter ethnicity should not be controversial in this chamber. The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinian children sound different to you all. We cannot lose our shared humanity."
An attempt by House Democrats to table, or effectively kill, the McCormick resolution failed on Tuesday afternoon. The House debated the censure resolution Tuesday and is expected to hold a final passage vote Wednesday, according to an updated schedule from House Majority Whip Tom Emmer.
A vote to censure a member of Congress does not hold power beyond a public condemnation of the member's behavior. It does not deny privileges in Congress or expel the member. A simple majority is all that is needed for a censure resolution to pass.
Censures are relatively rare --only 25 House lawmakers have been censured in history..
It will be thesecond attempt in as many weeks looking to condemn Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American member of Congress, for her controversial comments about Israel amid its response to the deadly Hamas terror attack. The U.S. has designated Hamas a terrorist organization.
In Israel, at least 1,400 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured since the surprise attack on Oct. 7, according to Israeli officials. In the neighboring Gaza Strip, where Israel Defense Forces are deepening its operational activities, more than 10,000 people have been killed and nearly 26,000 have been injured, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The first resolution, brought by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last week, was killed by House Democrats with the help of some Republicans. The House rejected the Georgia congresswoman's effort by a vote of 222-186.
Tlaib first drew ire of some colleagues forrefusing to apologizefor blaming Israel for a deadly hospital blast in Gaza that U.S. officials believed to have been caused by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
More recently, she's faced pushback for calling for a cease-fire as theIsrael-Gaza warrages on. She's gone as far as to accuse President Joe Biden of supporting a Palestinian "genocide" over his administration's resistance to a general cease-fire, though Biden has called for temporary pauses in the fighting to allow humanitarian aid to enter and for civilians to leave.
Tlaib defended her views during her five-minute speech on the House floor.
"Let me be clear: my criticism has always been of the Israeli government and Netanyahu's actions. It's important to separate people and governments, Mr. Chair, no government is beyond criticism," Tlaib said. "The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent and it's being used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation."
She also again took aim at President Biden, specifically over his past comment questioning the death toll statistics provided by Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry as well as his resistance to an overall cease-fire.
"Seventy-one percent of Michigan Democrats support a ceasefire. So, you can try to censure me, but you can't silence their voices … President Biden must listen to and represent all of us, not just some of us," she said.
Later Tuesday, the House is also planning to take upGreene's revamped resolutionto censure Tlaib.
Greene altered her resolution from last week, removing language that accused Tlaib of leading an "insurrection" during an Oct. 18 pro-Palestinian protest. In the new resolution, Greene wrote Tlaib "incited an illegal occupation at the United States Capitol Complex" through the protest.
