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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

“The big test for the U.S. now is to go to the Turks into the Qataris and say, ‘You’ve been blowing smoke at us, and Hamas is not cooperating,’” Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former U.K. envoy to Yemen, told JNS.
“There is no excuse for Kevin Roberts’s antisemitism and he must go,” a source at the Heritage Foundation told JNS.
“I did not come to this decision lightly for our family,” the congresswoman stated.
“These enemies of the Jewish people are not playing games,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said. “They mean to end our existence as a people. We will not allow that.”
“My father would tell me, the most powerful lobby that there is in this country is the Jewish lobby. It’s the Israeli lobby,” Trump said. “It’s not that way anymore.”
“They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb,” the U.S. Justice Department said. “We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.”
“We talked to the secretary of state directly and got guarantees that any NGOs that are funneling American tax dollars to the Taliban are officially going to be cut off,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said.
“I don’t know that we’re ever gonna solve this problem,” Rep. Tim Burchett said.
“This should be a time not to run and hide but to indeed prove that Zionism is not racism,” Rep. Joe Wilson told attendees.
The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act keeps overall U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation spending at $200 million, consistent with 2025 expenditures.
The committee also voted in favor of legislation to monitor Jew-hatred in Europe and impose sanctions on Iranian clerics calling for the deaths of the U.S. president and Israeli prime minister.
If confirmed by the full Senate, the Chabad rabbi would become the second Chassid to be approved by the Senate for a senior administration position.