U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
New Diaspora Affairs Ministry report highlights dramatic spike in online anti-Semitism in 2021, including 3.5 million anti-Semitic posts on five networks.
“Instead of focusing on all the obstacles and identifying the most important ones, they are singling out the settlement issue and defining it as the most critical,” says Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
The U.S. hopes that the meeting will “advance freedom, security, and prosperity for Palestinians and Israelis alike in 2022,” says State Department spokesman Ned Price.
Israel can guarantee public health without barring entry to world Jewry, says Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nahman Shai.
“Of course, there can be a good deal, of course,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, while expressing doubt about one being forged between Tehran and world powers under the “current dynamic.”
Israel and the United States stand at a “critical juncture ... on a major set of security issues” and need to develop a “common strategy,” says the U.S. national security advisor.
U.S. Jewish groups blast the former president for invoking “radioactive anti-Semitic tropes” in a recent interview with an Israeli journalist.
“As Iran moves ever closer to nuclear breakout, Congress and the Biden administration should act without delay in providing Israel the means to defend itself,” said Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
“Israel is the only country in the world that has a country, Iran, seeking its destruction and building the means to do it,” stated Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
It was perhaps resilience that Dole admired most. And he saw that trait in the Jewish people.
The Israeli defense minister will also hold discussions with the Biden administration on Iron Dome replenishment and certain defense acquisitions that have faced delays.
They include four Democrats and two Republican U.S. congressional members eyeing re-election.
