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“At a time of heightened threat to nonprofit faith- and community-based organizations, a bolstered NSGP will continue to provide our nonprofit partners with critical resources and tools they need to protect lives and property,” stated their letter.
Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) led the effort to halt the sale, which is a result of the UAE normalizing ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords.
As for anti-Semitism in America, “any discrimination about somebody’s religion or on somebody’s race—there’s no room for that in the United States,” said one of the two Republican African-Americans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
“My hope is that Ohio’s youth will become enlightened as a result of this legislation to avoid such atrocities from ever happening again,” said State Sen. Michael Rulli.
The case centers on the Guelph Treasure, purchased by Jewish art dealers who were later forced by the Nazis to sell it to the Prussian State Museum for a third of its value.
Johnny Roman Garza said a plot was designed to “have them wake up one morning and find themselves terrorized by targeted propaganda.”
Organizations must educate both sides of the aisle about how and why the Jewish state is crucial to America and the rest of the world, says the 32-year-old incoming legislator.
He previously served as head of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the mission of the U.S. military in the Middle East, though Israel is part of the U.S. European Command.
Professor Eytan Gilboa, an expert on American-Israeli relations, expects that bilateral cooperation on security, intelligence, weapons, doctrine and other areas won’t be disrupted, and that Jerusalem must actively coordinate with Washington.
A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives has called for related language in a must-pass appropriations bill.
It is co-sponsored by Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.).
In Iran, the dilemma is growing with regard to how and where to respond to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, and how far to stretch the regime’s restraint.
