A break in the Democratic boycott of Netanyahu
Senators Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein extended the invitation "to maintain Israel's dialogue with both political parties in Congress," according to a letter to the Israeli leader seen by Reuters.
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"This unprecedented move threatens to undermine the important bipartisan approach towards Israel - which as long-standing supporters of Israel troubles us deeply," Durbin and Feinstein wrote.
"It sacrifices deep and well-established cooperation on Israel for short-term partisan points - something that should never be done with Israeli security and which we fear could have lasting repercussions," they said.
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The two senators have not indicated publicly whether they planned to be at the Israeli leader's address, their spokesmen said.
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Durbin is the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate. Feinstein, who has been in the Senate since 1992, is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations and Judiciary committees.
The letter was sent on Monday evening. The Israeli Embassy did not have an immediate response to the invitation.Bloomberg adds (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
“To maintain Israel’s dialogue with both political parties in Congress, we invite you to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during your upcoming visit to Washington,” Durbin and Feinstein wrote Monday. “We believe such a venue would be a wholly appropriate opportunity to discuss the range of issues that face our two countries.”
Twenty-three House Democrats urged Boehner in a letter last week to postpone the speech. They said the speaker was “using a foreign leader as a political tool against” Obama.
The House Democrats’ letter questioned whether Boehner was using Netanyahu’s appearance to persuade lawmakers to back new sanctions against Iran despite a veto threat from Obama.To listen to the House Democrats, they don't believe it would ever be appropriate for Netanyahu to weigh in on Iran. That's just plain wrong. In the overall scheme of things, Israel has much more at stake in Iran (our very existence) than the United States has.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, John Boehner, joint session of Congress
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:01 AM
1 Comments:
Obama is a devoted Islamist who would see both the united States and Israel gone if it were possible at all.
However,Obama has just shown Israel and the people of the Continental united States that there is an enemy within the US that needs to be watched as terrorist.
The idiotic things that Democrats leaders say is beyond belief ,yet they do it anyway.The kind of thinking that leads only idiots to believe that a gun man would put his gun down if no one had a gun is foolish at best.They would just steal more and kill more because there was no threat of dieing for themselves.Democrats at this point in history are the enemy of this Continental united States.
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