U.S. Politics
“Hezbollah profits from the sale of goods vital to the Lebanese peoples’ health and economy, such as pharmaceuticals and gasoline,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Michael Bloomberg will speak at the annual conference, to be held March 1-3 in Washington, D.C., with the final day falling on Super Tuesday, when 14 states will hold presidential primaries.
Following the Democratic debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center, in response to whether or not she would attend, Klobuchar replied “No” to JNS, citing that the conference coincides with Super Tuesday on March 3, when 14 states will hold their primaries.
“As strong supporters of the U.S.-Israel relationship and AIPAC’s role in advancing it, we reject Senator Bernie Sanders’ outrageous comment accusing AIPAC of fostering bigotry,” begins the letter.
“I don’t think we need to have ground troops anywhere terrorists can gather because terrorists can gather anywhere in the world. But we do need intelligence capabilities and specialists on the ground,” said former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan.
The country’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at the home of Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov.
Marie Newman, running in a primary against incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, lost to him by less than 3 percentage points in the 2018 Democratic primary.
For the last 16 years, a group has harassed congregants outside of Beth Israel Congregation and held signs saying “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “Zionism Is Racism” and “RESIST Jewish Power.”
AIPAC said “by engaging in such an odious attack on this mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator [Bernie] Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel.”
Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, recently tweeted that the “FBI should investigate US politicians in both Republican and the Democratic party with ‘questionable’ ties with Israel,” among other social-media posts that have been deemed anti-Semitic.
“I’m always concerned when a discussion of who should be the next president of the United States doesn’t include a conversation about rising anti-Semitism or virtually anything about Middle East policy,” said former National Jewish Democratic Council head Aaron Keyak.
If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”
