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Ro Khanna’s West Bank ‘hostage’ stunt is a new low for a total phony

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Rep. Ro Khanna’s latest showboating stunt is too much even for other Democratic electeds — 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.

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.

He headed to the West Bank, intentionally directing his entourage into a restricted zone, then pretended he’d been taken hostage by Israeli “settlers” run amok.

In reality, he was briefly stopped by local security; after the army checked out his story he was free to proceed on his inane “fact-finding” mission.

Khanna’s subsequent whining that it’s “unprecedented” and........

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