U.S. Politics
“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” said the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres also requested that the U.S. extend waivers on Iran’s oil trade and “nuclear non-proliferation projects.”
The bipartisan bill, called the “Strategic Lebanon Security Reporting Act,” requires the U.S. State Department to put together a strategy to help Lebanon implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.
On Monday, Biden met with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the White House, where the two discussed broad range of challenges, including Iran.
In 2019, the Trump administration reversed the 1978 State Department legal opinion that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were inconsistent with international law.
“UNRWA is a very problematic organization. It is fully controlled by Hamas. Hamas uses the facilities of UNRWA for weapons storage and to launch rockets. All of the local employees of UNRWA are Hamas people. Nobody’s allowed to work in UNRWA without the permission of Hamas,” said Kobi Michael, senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies.
It is up to Israel’s new government to appoint an ambassador to represent it politically in the United States, says Gilad Erdan, vowing to continue to fight for justice in the international arena.
The strikes were launched in retaliation for drone attacks on U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
The U.S. State Department cited the need for collaboration 76 years after the Holocaust when the numbers of survivors are dwindling.
It would require that Congress receive an annual report identifying persons, agencies and instruments of a foreign state who knowingly materially assist Hamas or other terrorist affiliates in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praises Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for his “courageous and correct action for the State of Israel.”
Justice Department: “Components” of the Iranian government used the sites to target the United States with “disinformation campaigns and malign influence operations.”
