U.S. Politics
The businesswoman is running against incumbent Democratic Rep. Colin Allred in the U.S. House of Representatives race on Nov. 3 in Texas’s 32nd Congressional District.
Issues focus on far-left and far-right threats in the United States, as well as Israel’s security and reactions to the elimination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
U.S. citizens born in the capital must request that their place of birth be listed as “Israel,” or it will continue to be listed as “Jerusalem,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“This recognition of Israel’s capital is a further affirmation of the crucial principle that Jerusalem is, and always will be, Israel’s capital,” said B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin.
With the balance of the Senate in question, here are five contests deemed very close in states with significant Jewish populations.
The legislation would require the U.S. Department of Defense to consult with Israeli officials and report to Congress on Israel’s deterrence capabilities, in addition to the strategic advantages of a sale.
She succeeds the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish icon who was the second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, and who, in her opening statement on Oct. 12 in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Barrett paid tribute to.
“The Internet can be tremendous force for good. It can bring people together and allow everyone a voice,” said Michael Gove, a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. “But it is also the case that the Internet can be a cause for evil” and recruit “susceptible minds” to the “gospel of evil.”
The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program is seeking “information on the activities, networks and associates of Hezbollah that form a part of its financial support.”
Nabil Qaouk and Hassan Al-Baghdadi “are members of Hezbollah’s Central Council,” while Iraj Masjedi serves as Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq.
“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Another item on the agenda is said to be a defense compensation package for a future U.S. deal to sell F-35s to the United Arab Emirates.
