U.S. Politics
She is also no stranger to the U.S.-Israel relationship, even running against (and beating) a sabra contender in the Cowboy State.
Karine Jean-Pierre has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and slammed AIPAC for opposing the Iran nuclear deal.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Yellen would be the first woman to lead the 231-year-old U.S. Treasury Department.
The incoming White House is inheriting a region that has undergone vast changes over the past four years.
The 5-4 decision was in response to two lawsuits: one by the Archdiocese of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and one from Agudath Israel of America and two of its affiliated congregations.
“We think the Biden administration has a great opportunity because there is so much leverage on Iran through the sanctions,“ says Elliott Abrams.
“This goes to the heart of speaking hard truths in the name of moving peace forward,” says the former U.N. ambassador.
“Israel is a very strong partner” and the “best example of democracy and the American values that we have in the Middle East,” says the Democrat, who tips his hat to the late Sen. Daniel Inouye.
“Sympathizers in the Democratic Party are trying to convince the Palestinians to make changes in the law so salaries will be based on economic conditions and not just on terrorism,” said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior intelligence and security expert at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Circulated by the Jewish Democratic Council of America, the group penned a letter saying “they reject the baseless claims and attacks targeting him amid this Senate election.”
In 2002, Reema Dodin, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.”
The conservative camp in the Islamic Republic emphasizes that there is no real difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, calling Democrats a “prettier face” with the same policy.
