U.S.-Israel Relations
News about governmental relations between Israel and the United States
The End Palestinian Terror Salaries Act seeks to build on the Taylor Force Act to impose penalties on Palestinian officials who financially reward terrorists and their families.
Reps.-elect Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), Elaine Luria (D-Va.), David Trone (D-Md.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Susie Lee (D-Nev.), came on a trip organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s American Israel Education Fund to learn about the U.S.-Israel relationship.
“Victims deserve compensation from the Palestinian Authority more than their murderers,” New York-based hedge-fund manager Sander Gerber, who was instrumental in the passage of the Taylor Force Act.
“We have strict guidelines on who we work with, and that’s simply not just what we do, but across the U.S. government,” said USAID administrator Mark Green. “We follow administration policy.”
Former Israeli consul general in New York Ido Aharoni discusses what’s on the minds of Israelis and Americans, and how those subjects meet in the middle—religiously, socially and politically.
This year’s annual program, hosted by Birthright Israel, covered topics including cyber security, community-building, digital health-care innovation, cryptocurrencies, commerce and more.
Much of American Jewry’s primarily liberal communal leadership has taken vocal odds with policies of Israel’s conservative coalition government relating to key religious issues, the protection of minorities living in Israel and an inability to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians. And many Israelis have taken odds with the progressively divisive tone of American Jewish criticisms.
“The United States will set funding for Israel at levels of $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million for cooperative programs for missile defense over each of the next 10 years.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan includes items the Palestinians would never agree to, says Ronen Yitzhak, head of the Middle East Studies department at Israel’s Western Galilee College.
The $717 billion National Defense Authorization Act includes a bipartisan measure honoring a decade-long memorandum of understanding between America and Israel, giving $3.8 billion annually to the Jewish state, while also temporarily blocking the U.S. delivery of the F-35 fighter jets to Turkey.
The Israeli public as a whole has been substantially less committed to—in fact, downright unenthusiastic about—changing the status quo.
According to Reps. Zeldin and Lamborn, Palestinian official Issa Karake is directly responsible for the department that facilitates financial remuneration and other support for Palestinian terrorists.
