Posted on 02/05/2015 5:05:14 AM PST by cotton1706
The messy politics surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled joint address to Congress continue to play out in a less than private way, as Democrats try to show discontent for how the speech ended up on the congressional calendar while not turning their back on Israel and the powerful political lobby it controls.
“There’s a lot of unnecessary drama occurring when we should be focusing on the substance of the negotiations with Iran and the outcome of those negotiations,” said Rep. Steve Israel, the new chairman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. “Israel” — the state, that is — “has never been used as a political football,” he said. “And we shouldn’t start now.”
Israel — the New York Democrat — hosted a meeting in his Rayburn office on Wednesday with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer and six other Jewish Democrats: Ted Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida; Nita M. Lowey and Jerrold Nadler of New York; Sander M. Levin of Michigan; and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, who was present for part of the meeting.
Sources told CQ Roll Call there was spirited discussion about whether Netanyahu should speak to Congress on March 3, just two weeks before Israeli elections. “Some people said reschedule, some people said don’t reschedule, so lots of different ideas,” said Steve Israel, who later in the day told CQ Roll Call that “we need to diffuse this and not allow it to ratchet up.”
Lowey told CQ Roll Call that: “We had a meeting, and if we wanted it to be public, we would have issued a press release. We’re trying to talk about it and work things out.”
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Let the Dems boycott, maybe then the Jewish community will see them for what they really are, fake supporters.
Let those demodummies stay home and pout like a bunch of children who didn’t get their way. Dumb asses all of them.
Let those demodummies stay home and pout like a bunch of children who didn’t get their way. Dumb asses all of them.
You know the day of the speech there will be technical difficulties.
Anyone want to take that bet?
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