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“Given the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn’t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this,” said the U.S. president.
“This is not a lost arena,” the Israel president said of maintaining good relations with Democrats in Congress.
The U.S. president expressed support for the left-wing demonstrations in Israel.
Herzog took the topic of Israel’s judicial reforms and spun the “heated debate” in Israel as “a virtue and a tribute to the greatness of Israeli democracy,” pledging that he would “seek to find amicable consensus on the issue,”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was given several chances to clarify whether the congresswoman’s remarks were antisemitic and if Netanyahu was invited to the White House.
“As I often have often said, ‘If there wasn’t an Israel, we’d have to make one.’ Seventy-five years, it’s hard to believe,” U.S. President Joe Biden said.
At the CUFI Summit in Washington, the former governor and ambassador said that the president, the United Nations and congressional Democrats fail on Israel and American Jewish issues.
A visit could make the PM “a stage prop for prominent Democrats to lecture and embarrass,” American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Rubin tells JNS.
Should we mark our calendars, or was this merely the vaguest possible way the White House could have talked about a meeting, without actually committing to one?
“They have agreed that they will meet, probably before the end of this year,” per a White House spokesman.
During the conversation, “President Biden invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to an upcoming meeting in the U.S.,” said Netanyahu.
When the Israeli president meets his counterpart this week, he should make it clear that the White House’s boycott of Netanyahu runs against the very core of Biden’s statement that he is a Zionist.
