U.S. Politics
“The Pray Safe Act is one important legislative remedy to help address the current crisis,” said OU president Moishe Bane.
The short bill targets Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President-elect Ebrahim Raisi.
Ohio 11th Congressional District candidate Nina Turner faces criticism for not supporting those in the Democratic Party.
The demands that Ramallah is set to convey to Washington this week include the reopening of Orient House, the reduction of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount and the return of confiscated weapons to P.A. security forces.
Also in attendance was a delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), making his first trip to Israel in his current position.
“The committee’s appropriation, with no added political conditions, reflects the strong bipartisan commitment to Israel’s security in Congress and the Biden administration,” tweeted AIPAC.
“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” said the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres also requested that the U.S. extend waivers on Iran’s oil trade and “nuclear non-proliferation projects.”
The bipartisan bill, called the “Strategic Lebanon Security Reporting Act,” requires the U.S. State Department to put together a strategy to help Lebanon implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.
On Monday, Biden met with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the White House, where the two discussed broad range of challenges, including Iran.
In 2019, the Trump administration reversed the 1978 State Department legal opinion that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were inconsistent with international law.
“UNRWA is a very problematic organization. It is fully controlled by Hamas. Hamas uses the facilities of UNRWA for weapons storage and to launch rockets. All of the local employees of UNRWA are Hamas people. Nobody’s allowed to work in UNRWA without the permission of Hamas,” said Kobi Michael, senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies.
