If he accepts an invitation to speak before Congress, Netanyahu will in essence surrender Israel’s bipartisan status and align Israel with the narrow interests of conservative America.
Perhaps both Biden and Netanyahu might be inspired by former President Barack Obama's memorable words in 2012: “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
Like a good “useful Jew,” Schumer shamefully allowed the anti-Israel talking points of the day to come forth from Jewish lips.
Instead of shutting up, pretending the Palestinian problem will disappear, why not propose “two democracies for two peoples”?
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My recommendation to members of the Knesset and the Israeli people is to call out Schumer’s remarks as meshugas (Yiddish for “nonsense”).
Now is not the time for public criticisms that empower detractors of Israel, Schleifer and Daroff said, arguing that such criticisms foster divisiveness.
Kariv also said that Schumer's words "introduced us to a different type of Jewish and Zionist leadership."
It is both audacious and insulting for the majority leader of the US Senate to say what he did about a fellow democracy and ally of the US.
Trump said that under his leadership, Iran had been left too broke to fund terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
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