US President Donald Trump support the prevention saying "it would show great weakness if Israel allowed the
congresswomen Omar and Tlaib to visit.
Mohammad Shtayyeh Palestinian prime minister said that the decision maid by Israel to deny
Congresswomen @RepRashida and @Ilhan entry to occupied Palestine, as well as the inciting remarks made against them, implies fear of exposing the tyranny of the Israeli occupation to the US public.
Trump, meanwhile, has adamantly stood by his comments about the
congresswomen, saying that they should leave the US if they are unhappy.
He asked the freshmen
Congresswomen to go back to the "broken, crime-infested" countries they came from, attracting ire from most Democrats and a few Republicans, who all condemned the President's statements.
All four
Congresswomen are American citizens and three were born in the US.
The story started when Trump went to Twitter last weekend and posted a three-tweet thread attacking the four
congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib.
Most Republican lawmakers were silent Monday as Trump intensified his Twitter attacks on the four Democratic
congresswomen, prompting numerous Democrats to accuse him of racist rhetoric designed to further divide Americans.
While Mr Trump did not name them, he is thought to have been referring to
congresswomen, above, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.
"So many people are angry at them and their horrible and disgusting actions," Trump said.In his initial attack on Sunday, Trump said
congresswomen he did not name came from corrupt, poorly managed countries to which they should return.
* the first Native American
congresswomen: Deb Haaland (D-NM) and Sharice Davids (D-KS)
THE SOURCE: "The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Why Do
Congresswomen Outperform Congressmen?" by Sarah F.
Congresswomen Giffords had a meeting with her fellow citizens only three days after she was sworn in on Wednesday, 5 January, in Washington.
