U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
“These are two separate issues and should be considered as such,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn. “Israel needs our immediate attention, and Biden should move swiftly to deliver substantial aid to our Jewish friends in trouble.”
“When you give evil people, who want to murder you, the financial resources to do so, it does not work out well,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of the new White House funding for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
It is the only Middle East country to be added to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, joining 40 other nations.
“I think it would be bad for Israel to have a man who has misled the Congress and the American people about the nuclear deal with Iran,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told JNS of Lew’s nomination.
The U.S. president “proved to be a true friend of Israel who stands by its side as it faces its most difficult challenges since the establishment of the state,” said Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama.
Biden and Netanyahu are reportedly pushing forward a $10 billion emergency military aid package for Israel.
“What the Israelis must do is cover their ears and not let the United States dictate what they can and can’t do militarily against Hamas,” said Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute.
The problem that we (and Israel’s leadership) now must face is that America’s tie to Israel is breakable.
“Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS, unleashing pure unadulterated evil upon the world,” the U.S. president said.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks ahead of a meeting with Israel’s war Cabinet in Tel Aviv.
“The world sees [your] support in the moral clarity that you have demonstrated from the moment that Israel was attacked,” the premier told the president in Tel Aviv.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Joe Biden for being the first U.S. president to visit Israel during a war.
