U.S. Politics
The organization wished the former speaker upon his announcement of retirement at the end of the year.
“We, the undersigned fall 2023 White House and executive office of the president interns, will no longer remain silent on the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people,” the letter began.
Administration officials expect the war to “switch to a lower intensity military strategy, which is focused on hitting specific Hamas leaders.”
Eighty-seven percent of Israeli Jews support the resumption of fighting against Hamas in the same manner as before the ceasefire.
“I am disappointed that 106 of my colleagues failed to take this opportunity to condemn antisemitism forcefully,” said Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), a co-sponsor.
“Your institution is clearly producing students who are sympathetic to a terrorist organization,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Don’t you think that’s a misuse of taxpayer dollars?”
Washington has repeatedly claimed that Israel isn’t doing enough to curb “settler” violence in Judea and Samaria.
Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, later clarified that he didn’t have evidence to support that claim.
Jerusalem has been “receptive to our messages here in terms of trying to minimize civilian casualties,” added spokesman John Kirby.
Facing a 23-count fraud indictment, Santos became just the sixth member of the House, and the first non-Confederate or convicted felon, expelled from Congress.
“Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” the U.S. president said, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Blinken released a much heftier statement.
“He was a visionary, and a brilliant man,” the attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told JNS of his longtime friend.
