U.S. Politics
The United States credits the Palestinian Authority for supposed “calm” in Judea and Samaria.
All of the other 412 House members who voted supported the Jewish state.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke for more than 40 minutes about Jew-hatred on the U.S. Senate floor.
In many cases, antisemitism is coming from “people that most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers,” the Senate majority leader said.
Analysis director Amy McFadden has offered other hints of anti-Israel bias.
“The United States remains committed to exposing elements of the Iranian military and its complicit partners abroad to disrupt this critical source of funds,” said Brian Nelson, a U.S. Treasury official.
“They’re trying to expel an entire community of people from the United States,” said Rep. Greg Landsman. “It’s un-American. It’s not who we are.”
The Biden administration has “reinforced in very clear language” that renewed fighting must not “produce significant further displacement of persons.”
Speaking on Friday from Nantucket, Mass., the U.S. president added that “Hamas doesn’t give a damn” about Palestinians and “I only trust Hamas to respond to pressure.”
“I welcome the deal to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas,” U.S. President Joe Biden said.
The president ordered Cabinet members to take action “against those responsible for the conduct of violence in the West Bank.”
The federal government must tackle Jew-hatred proactively, said Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union.
