U.S. Politics
Also sanctioned were 51 entities associated with the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini.
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani met with his counterpart, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, where they made the announcement.
The Defense Department, State Department employees, the United Nations and humanitarian groups are reportedly against such a move.
The drawdown of forces comes despite objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
President-elect Joe Biden stressed his commitment to Israel’s security, according to the prime minister’s office.
AIPAC called Retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor’s remarks “ill-informed and illegitimate.”
She has called for forming a “freedom squad” to counter fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in Congress, and to fight BDS.
“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
The expected withdrawals come in the aftermath of shakeups at the Pentagon in which U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was fired and replaced with Christopher Miller.
While some did not and could not vote, those who did spoke of the privilege of casting a ballot in the United States, as well as the ripple effect the results could have on the Jewish state.
Whoever is nominated would likely signal the direction that the next White House would take on issues relevant to the relationship between America and Israel, including combating anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jewry, Mideast relations, the Iranian threat and more.
Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.
