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The two will “will discuss their countries’ shared interests and actions in the Middle East” on March 25, followed by dinner the next day.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pressure on Iran is working: “We need to increase it, we need to expand it ... the U.S. and Israel are working in close coordination to roll back Iranian aggression.”
Efrat Regional Council head Oded Revivi will participate in a panel on Judea and Samaria.
“We reject the parallels Representative Omar has repeatedly drawn between Israel and apartheid South Africa,” the Jewish Democratic Council of America said in a statement. “We also want to make clear to both Reps. Omar and Tlaib that our denunciation of their recent tweets was completely unrelated to their religion.”
Using social media to make a rare break into the politically charged debate over upcoming Israeli elections, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Jewish Committee took political positions on the inclusion of the Otzma Yehudit Party in a technical bloc with the Jewish Home Party.
“The views of Otzma Yehudit are reprehensible. They do not reflect the core values that are the very foundation of the State of Israel,” said AJC in a statement.
A conference call among leaders included the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Americans for Peace Now, the refugee resettlement organization HIAS and Bend the Arc.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) accused AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization, of paying members of Congress to back Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to visit the United States to attend the annual Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby.
“As ambassador, he worked to strengthen the ties between the U.S. and Israel, and was a visionary about the need for Israel to utilize modern technologies and methods to get its message across. His clarity of thought and well-reasoned arguments never failed to impress even Israel’s opponents.”
“It is in America’s national security interests to ensure that our allies in the Middle East, like Israel and Jordan, remain secure amid the region’s growing destabilizing threats posed by Iran and Syria’s Assad regime,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Reps.-elect Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), Elaine Luria (D-Va.), David Trone (D-Md.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Susie Lee (D-Nev.), came on a trip organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s American Israel Education Fund to learn about the U.S.-Israel relationship.
