Dem Chairman Criticizes Freshman Tlaibs Planned Delegation To West Bank

(The Hill) Rachel Frazin 01/30/19 12:36 PM The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week criticized freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaibs (D-Mich.) plan to take a congressional delegation to the West Bank. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) told the Al-Monitor newspaper that instead she ought to listen and learn and open her mind. Instead of her talking about things shes new here she ought to listen and learn and open her mind and then come to some conclusions" he said according to the newspaper which also reported Engel said he was against the delegation. If youre going to be close-minded and have your views no ones going to change her views he continued. But I would hope that once youre elected to Congress you would at least care to see the other side of the coin." Tlaibs planned delegation to the West Bank is meant to be an alternative to the traditional trip for new members of Congress led by the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).