U.S. Politics
“This goes to the heart of speaking hard truths in the name of moving peace forward,” says the former U.N. ambassador.
“Israel is a very strong partner” and the “best example of democracy and the American values that we have in the Middle East,” says the Democrat, who tips his hat to the late Sen. Daniel Inouye.
“Sympathizers in the Democratic Party are trying to convince the Palestinians to make changes in the law so salaries will be based on economic conditions and not just on terrorism,” said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior intelligence and security expert at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Circulated by the Jewish Democratic Council of America, the group penned a letter saying “they reject the baseless claims and attacks targeting him amid this Senate election.”
In 2002, Reema Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”
The conservative camp in the Islamic Republic emphasizes that there is no real difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, calling Democrats a “prettier face” with the same policy.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says she is fine with Anthony Blinken as long as he doesn’t “suppress her First Amendment right” to criticize the Israeli prime minister’s “racist and inhumane policies.”
Michael Makovsky of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America said “given the foreign-policy rhetoric during the Democratic primary, [Tony] Blinken and [Jake] Sullivan are from the more moderate wing of the party, and that is reassuring. They’re thoughtful and experienced experts.”
While Middle East analysts say Biden is building a team of people in whom he trusts, can rely on and can work together as a team, a good deal of concern centers on whether U.S. foreign policy will look too much like it did during the Obama administration.
Home to as many as 450,000 Jews, in many ways it is similar to Michigan, Wisconsin and even Georgia when it comes to the politics that led to it being so contested this election season.
“We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friedrich Karl Berger was ordered removed from the United States because of his time in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration-camp prisoners in the Neuengamme system in northern Germany.
