U.S. Foreign Policy
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s foreign-policy agenda, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the work of his predecessor, Mike Pompeo.
“Attempting to abide by the JCPOA would result in more for less: Iran more capable and the U.S. with less leverage,” said Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of JINSA.
Jim Philips, a senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs at The Heritage Foundation, said the Biden administration’s early efforts to distance itself from Saudi Arabia “could give Israel additional influence because Riyadh may seek to stave off further criticisms from Washington by underscoring its warming ties with Jerusalem.”
Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Cardin and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said they are “concerned that the court’s recent actions” have “inappropriately infused politics into the judicial process.”
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called her new appointment “dangerous.”
It’s unlikely that Jerusalem will jettison its new Arab allies after a wave of normalization agreements, bolstered by its relations with Greece, Cyprus and Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean, in exchange for some recent warm words from the Turkish president.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) will become the first African-American to hold the top spot, succeeding Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who was upset earlier this year in his primary.
“For the long-term stability of Israel and the Palestinians, being able to hear the different voices would be helpful. And so I hope that we can make that happen next term,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas).
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if Israel’s the only country in the Middle East that has F-35s, that selling it to someone else no longer produces that Qualitative Military Edge in the air,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).
Organizers say it is an “in-depth course on legislative advocacy” in training activists to lobby Congress on BDS and other anti-Israel issues.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) were two of 58 members of Congress to skip Netanyahu’s speech.
Chinese control of or investment in infrastructure and companies abroad presents a security threat, say U.S. officials, who have been working to convince allies to create distance from the country.
