U.S. Politics
Throughout his career, Joe Biden has been adamantly optimistic about the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, despite repeated Palestinian rejections over the years.
The United States announced that it has sanctioned two men and three companies for helping the terrorist group Hezbollah evade U.S. sanctions.
Record at a glance: Rep. Seth Moulton, a former US Marine, follows Democrat stance on Mideast issues
He has favored a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, and co-sponsored a bill that would have mandated the U.S. government to certify that military funding to Israel not be used for the “Israeli military’s ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children.”
The State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, which started in 1984, has given more than $150 million to more than 100 people for providing information about terrorists and potential attacks.
U.S. citizens born in the Golan Heights will have “Israel” listed as their place of birth on their passports.
U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to relocate the embassy to its permanent location if he wins re-election in 2020 and could travel to lay the cornerstone during the election campaign.
Pelosi blasted President Donald Trump for tweeting a video, criticizing Omar for labeling at the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s Greater Los Angeles branch last month the 9/11 attacks as “some people did something.”
U.S. Ambassador Ron Dermer said that he is not afraid of the peace proposal, saying that “we know we have a friend here” at the White House in U.S. President Donald Trump.
Alain Soral, 60, was sentenced to a year in prison for comments posted to his website.
Record at a glance: Mayor Pete Buttigieg supports two-state solution, blames Hamas for lack of peace
“Most people aren’t aware of the difference between what’s happening in Gaza—run by Hamas in a way that is contributing to a lot of misery there—but also totally different than an environment where you’d have a negotiating partner across the table.”
House Republican lawmakers are launching a discharge petition to force a vote on the House floor on a Senate bill that would allow state and local governments the right to punish state or local contractors from engaging in boycotting Israel.
Since being elected to the House of Representatives in 2013, the California congressman has towed the party line on issues related to the U.S.-Israel alliance.
