U.S. Politics
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) cited a report from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that shows “troubling parallels between the ICC’s investigation of the U.S. and that of Israel.”
The Democratic platform includes language that expresses support for the U.S.-Israel relationship, a pledge to maintain security funding for Israel and backing for a two-state solution.
The Scowcroft Group wrote that “his entire professional life was devoted to how best to protect America and advance its interests.”
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
A veteran foreign-policy expert, he has been serving as the U.S. State Department’s special representative for Venezuela.
Cori Bush won 48.9 percent of the vote, while Rep. Lacy Clay, who has been in Congress since 2001, received 45.5 percent.
Republicans are urging the Trump administration to back the move, as are groups such as evangelical Christians, a core base of support.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar will face four opponents in her district’s Aug. 11 Democratic primary.
Additionally, the spending package included $47.5 million in U.S.-Israel anti-tunnel technology cooperation, $4 million for new U.S.-Israel collaboration on coronavirus research and $6 million for joint U.S.-Israel cooperative programs in energy and water.
State Department envoy Ellie Cohanim also noted that the United States is urging nations to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.) has been accused of peddling an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agenda.
It was reported that doctors needed to “revise a bile duct stent.”
