U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
Israeli President Isaac Herzog had a “wonderful meeting” with U.S. President Joe Biden, whom he called a “huge friend of Israel.”
The month-long pilot program is due to start this week.
The Congress members asked Secretary Blinken for an update on the Palestinian policy of rewarding terrorists.
Israel is “not a racist or apartheid state,” the measure approved 412-9 reads.
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,”
The two leaders reaffirmed the “unique relationship” between the United States and Israel, and discussed the “shared goal” of countering Iran.
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.
“I don’t expect any announcement today or tomorrow; I’ll put it that way,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
“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.
“By failing to confirm these nominees, a handful of senators are keeping our best players on the sidelines,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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.
