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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for JNS.

The president’s pick to serve as part of the White House National Security Council’s Middle East and North Africa portfolio, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Barbara Leaf, was also approved in a 14-8 vote.
A U.S. State Department official said the secretary of state expects to cover the war in Ukraine, Iran, the Abraham Accords, preserving the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and building support for the U.N.’s engagement in Western Sahara.
“The endorsement will inevitably—and inequitably—discriminate against, exclude and isolate Israeli scholars by singling out the Israeli academy for boycott. The resolution’s assertion that the boycott ‘will not target individual students or scholars’ is untenable,” said Academic Engagement Network.
The effort comes weeks after a committee meeting on March 8, when Lipstadt’s nomination was blocked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) after his objections.
“My position remains that the United States must use all diplomatic, informational and economic instruments of national power at our disposal to support Ukraine and deter Russia’s aggression. The purpose and goal must be to help de-escalate this conflict as soon as possible,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) said in a news release.
“I feel like it should be required for a member of Congress to go so they can see it, especially the ones on the other side of the issue,” said the 37-year-old Republican representing New York.
“It is a real fight against good and evil. The challenge is so much bigger, and, of course, the world as [the Russian president] wants to change is not the world in which Jews and Israel want to live,” said Natan Sharansky.
A watered-down agreement would not hold Iran accountable for its malicious actions and support of terrorism throughout the Middle East and or its ongoing development of ballistic missiles, say think-tank experts on a recent Zoom call.
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, urges attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference to act against the U.N.’s defamatory Commission of Inquiry (COI) into alleged war crimes by Israel.
While Democratic Majority for Israel’s Mark Mellman praised Biden’s four-point plan to tackle inflation, the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Sam Markstein said the address “ignored his administration’s failed agenda.”
“That doesn’t mean you send American troops willy-nilly into these areas, but it also doesn’t mean you sit on your hands and pretend nothing is going on. These people want to live, and they want to fight! They should have arms! [So, they can] kill as many of these bastards as they possibly can,” says Levin.
“I would like to ask all of the support that you can provide us with here in the U.S. by contacting everyone you can contact, calling for stronger sanctions, but also all the support that you can provide in any of these areas, it will be very much appreciated, because this is existential,” Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova told the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry.