U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
An event at the U.S. Capitol promoted legislation to mint commemorative coins featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
The Prime Minister’s Office responded by saying that “the fighting continues, and there will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about “concrete steps” to minimize civilian deaths in Gaza.
The new envoy to Jerusalem met with the families of captives held by Hamas in Gaza.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), one of 12 Democrats to vote for the bill, called it “poison” and a “horrendous precedent.”
“Some final details” are still being worked out, said U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
Barbara Leaf, an assistant secretary of state, is in the region to “advance efforts to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from spreading.” Derek Chollet, a department counselor, is also in Israel.
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense were interrupted frequently by protesters as they testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
His nomination was accelerated in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel.
“These radical left voices mean nothing” to Biden, Ruderman Family Foundation President Jay Ruderman says.
“Holocaust survivors and many others have been re-traumatized by the attacks.”
“I took a bill last week that said no money for Hamas, and Schumer blocked it,” Sen. Rick Scott tells JNS referring to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
