U.S. Politics
“In the elevated threat environment that we have seen since Oct. 7, we stand ready to hold perpetrators of hate crimes accountable” said Kristen Clarke, a U.S. assistant attorney general.
“We gave up our strong cards for nothing,” officials in Jerusalem say.
Senior U.S. officials believe that political considerations are at play in the pronouncement.
“U.S. law requires the United States to cut off all funding to the U.N. if the U.N. admits Palestine as a member state,” the Republicans said.
The activists, some of whom disrupted a Senate hearing, reportedly said, “Senate can’t eat until Gaza eats.”
“We don’t have evidence of that to my knowledge,” the secretary of defense testified before Congress.
The Yesh Atid Party leader told reporters outside the U.S. State Department that in his opinion, an exchange with Hamas terrorists is difficult but “doable.”
The resolution criticizes the U.S. president’s recent call with the Israeli prime minister and a U.N. Security Council vote, which passed when Washington held its veto and abstained.
The move would reverse a Trump administration decision to label products originating in the region as “Made in Israel.”
Washington will work with Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the United Nations and others to ensure “a significant increase” in humanitarian aid reaches Gazan civilians.
“There’s political capital to be made, and political cost to be avoided, by litigating,” Marc Stern, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. “It’s like Kabuki theater.”
