U.S. Politics
Proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), it would require the U.S. Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress assessing the economic, humanitarian, political and psychological impact that Israel’s restrictions on movement and access are having on Palestinians.
“It’s the result of a toxic environment where agitators spent years weaponizing debates about municipal policy with an outsized focus on Orthodox Jews, and the commentary loaded with one-sided reporting and flat-out lies,” said the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey appears to be the sole Democrat that has come out against the administration’s plan, which has generated strong Republican opposition.
The funding works like a matching grant, covering costs of equipment but not the labor to install it.
The decision by the Biden administration marks a shift from the Trump administration, which had uniformly voted against such anti-Israel votes at the United Nations.
U.S.-Israeli Task Force on Fintech Innovation and Cybersecurity will counter money-laundering, terror financing and “illicit finance threats.”
Projected to open by the third quarter of 2022, the facility can provide as many as 300 jobs.
It is the latest in a series of calls by American Jewish organizations to confirm Holocaust historian, author and professor Deborah Lipstadt.
The nearly unanimous vote on the move by a panel of experts comes on the heels of the FDA-CDC decision to inoculate kids in that age group.
The Israeli prime minister thanked the members for supporting funding for the Iron Dome missile-defense system.
According to Ghaith al-Omari, a former Palestinian negotiator and senior fellow at the Washington Institute, it’s “a game of chicken. It boils down to: Does Israel want to make this into a crisis? The Bennett government has been trying to avoid public disagreements with the United States.”
The legendary psychic entertainer welcomes groups to his Ottoman-era museum space, displaying an assortment of items from the rich and famous.
