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Rep. Ro Khanna\u2019s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds \u2014 not only a transparent ploy to get past his all-in bet on the Graham Platner campaign, but a transparently pathetic bid to play victim of those darn Israelis.<\/p>\n

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Just days after his scorched-earth defense of the Maine Senate candidate failed to stop the implosion, Khanna (D-Calif.) rushed off to the Middle East to change his storyline.<\/p>\n

He headed to the West Bank, intentionally directing his entourage into a restricted zone, then pretended he\u2019d been taken hostage by Israeli \u201csettlers\u201d run amok.<\/p>\n

In reality, he was briefly stopped by local security; after the army checked out his story he was free to proceed on his inane \u201cfact-finding\u201d mission.<\/p>\n

Khanna\u2019s subsequent whining that it\u2019s \u201cunprecedented\u201d and \u201cillegal\u201d for an \u201cAmerican citizen\u201d to be stopped in a high-security area in another country is not only absurd, it\u2019s the ultimate entitled \u201cugly American\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n

Any American, even an elected official, who makes an unscheduled and unannounced trip to a contained area in some other part of the world would reasonably expect to be stopped and questioned.<\/p>\n

Notice that none of Khanna\u2019s House colleagues have stepped up to defend him: Even other progressives are sick of this self-promoting phony.<\/p>\n

Khanna, perhaps the wealthiest Democrat in Congress, is even crying that he was stopped for being \u201cbrown\u201d \u2014 utter nonsense when many Palestinians are fair-skinned and many Israelis (Jewish as well as Arab) are dark-skinned.<\/p>\n

Read more Time to win the Battle of Hormuz \u2014 and enforce freedom of navigation<\/a><\/p>\n

The most shameless self-promoter in Washington can bang on all he likes about Israeli \u201capartheid,\u201d but it has nothing to do with the real thing, nor even American racial divides.<\/p>\n

This is the cheapest possible demagoguery, appealing only to the most ignorant in his domestic audience. <\/p>\n

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More posturing: Having staged his \u201cvictimhood\u201d in front of a New York Times photographer, he proceeded to talk up his ambition to seek the presidency, pretending to warn Israelis that he might soon be running the world.<\/p>\n

Hah! He\u2019s even more of a joke than Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

But Khanna is immune to shame or self-doubt: He\u2019s not even embarrassed by his naming of complete innocents as supposed Jeffrey Epstein confederates, nor his foolish embrace of an obvious fraud like Platner.<\/p>\n

This pustulation on the rear end of American democracy will surely pop or desiccate sooner or later.<\/p>\n

The real shame is that we have to put up with his camera-hogging as we wait for it to happen.<\/p>\n

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