Posted on 05/23/2011 3:53:37 PM PDT by onyx
Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:00am
While Washington, D.C., is increasingly consumed with bickering between Democrats and Republicans, the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the one issue that transcends the partisan divide. In a display of this bipartisan spirit, more than half of Congress will attend tonight's Gala Banquet, which will fill a room large enough to fit the Washington Monument on its side.
This year, however, for the first time ever, Hall D/E, as massive as it is, cannot fit all delegates and guests for a sit-down dinner. As a result, all student delegates will be seated in the Ballroom Banquet in Ballrooms A, B and C. Each banquet will feature live and simulcast appearances as well as unique programming. The major speakers tonight—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid—will appear personally in both banquet halls.
Representatives from more than 65 countries—including ambassadors from China, South Africa, Mexico, Turkey and the Netherlands—will be seated at tonight's dinner.
Senators, members of Congress, administration officials, foreign diplomats and other VIPs at the banquets will have their names read during the Roll Call, a lively Policy Conference tradition that has been a crowd favorite for many years. AIPAC National Board members Amy Friedkin and Michael Tuchin will join AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr for the Roll Call.
The Gala Banquet will be the end of a full day of Monday programming. The morning kicks off with an address by Reverend Dr. Tony Crisp. After the morning plenary, delegates will head to lobbying workshops, where they will learn from AIPAC's top experts how to make the case for Israel on Capitol Hill tomorrow.
Nuthin’ but a thug bully. Good it’s was photographed for posterity.
Obama is so far out of BiBi’s league....just like a thug to wave his finger around. He hasn’t a clue who he is dealing with. Never will...
LOL...thinking about the suspension dropping out of his “Beast” car with him in it today...that said plenty!
Yup. Bibi showed GREAT restraint that day! Can’t you just see
in his face what he would have LIKED to do!? :)
This is the best I could find regarding the time of his address to congress:
“The address to Congress, which Netanyahu has been working on for days with his senior adviser Ron Dermer, will come about 12 hours after Netanyahu gives a speech to over 10,000 delegates to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221922
thx!
I just love Texans:) Don't mess with Texas! Don't mess with Israel either! We've all been mortified over what has happened in our good ol' USA since TEH WON shucked and jived his way into OUR house! I've never seen the political conversations and just plain old anger at gas stations, grocery stores, restraunts, etc. since the Communist Cabal took over. Righteous anger I tell ya! 2012 can't come soon enough! Run Sarah Run!
Thank you! I didn’t see a time. Hope it’s after I get home from work. I WILL have the remote for that one! LOL!
caww, I don’t really want you to leave. You have read me wrong. When you get time, you might want to read some of my posts... I think you will think differently.
I am a diehard Jew supporter/defender and always have been. I also hold Bibi in very high regard.
My words are not fluff, they are just my words.
I think Texas and Israel have a lot in common! We are both
being invaded by unwanted illegal squatters!
There is anger...and disgust. The ones who voted for the
fake president are vewwy, vewwy quiet right now! :)
Thanks! Have errand list tomorrow, so will have to catch up tomorrow night.
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May 23, 2011
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0511/Bibi_present_Jewish_groups_debate_partisanship.html
A bipartisan meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Blair House today included moments of sharply partisan tension, sources in the room said.
As Jewish Democrats stressed the need for a united, bi-partisan American conversation on Israel, the chief of a Jewish Republican group reserved the right to attack Democrats who stray from the pro-Israel line in an unusually frank exchange before a foreign leader.
“The [Republican Jewish Coalition] and [National Jewish Democratic Council] argued between them,” Israeli Embassy spokesman Jonathan Peled said. “The Prime Minister stressed bipartisanship ... and the importance of keeping Israel a bipartisan issue, as has always been the case.”
Each of the partisan Jewish groups invited about 10 people to the meeting, including DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and DCCC Chairman Steve Israel on the Democratic side and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson on the Republican. The meeting kicked off with Rep. Israel stressing, Rep. Israel told POLITICO, that bipartisan Israel backing is a “strategic asset” and with Wasserman Schultz proposing that the two Jewish groups, and the two national parties, hold a bi-partisan unity event.
But the meeting came at a moment of high tension between Netanyahu — and his American Republican alies — and President Barack Obama, with many Republicans in no mood to cede political ground on the charged question of Israel. Obama this week sought to lay out an American baseline for future negotiations.
And it comes amid a long-running debate between Jewish groups and leaders — led by the pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC, at whose gathering Netanyahu speaks tonight — who believe that Israel draws strength from bipartisan support and worry that partisan politics could drive Democratic leaders away from Israel; and from those who see the use of Israel politics as a partisan wedge as a way of pushing policy in a hawkish direction.
Some in the room took the Democrats’ talk of bipartisanship as an effort to draw Netanyahu into shutting down Republican criticism of Democrats, and RJC executive director Matt Brooks spoke out to say he reserved the right to criticize Democrats who break ranks on Israel, as with the 54 signers of a 2010 letter criticizing Israel’s Gaza blockade.
His words produced a sharp response from the Democrats, and sources said Netanyahu sought to avoid being involved in the exchange.
Brooks didn’t respond to a request for comment, and an NJDC officials didn’t comment on the exchange. The Democrats stressed the harmony that characterized the bulk of the meeting.
“Several people in the room, on both sides of the aisle, discussed that Israel cannot become a partisan political issue, that if it becomes so then no one wins and Israel loses,” said Jonathan Beeton, Wasserman Schultz’s communications director
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We shall see the wheat and the chaff in the coming days.
I still see the occasional 0bama 08 bumper sticker now and then. Not very many though and I’m in mostly liberal Houston.
False eyelashes in Ireland .. in the middle of the day ?????
Can SUM-1 put out a 411 for a stylist with a speck of judgement, make her look in the mirror and give her sound advice on looking stately and refined ?
Now that IS amazing! Even liberals in Texas know a fraud when they see one! He turned his back on Texas’s security and our need when we had raging wildfires. That doesn’t sit right!
Though, we manage without him quite well!
That would be one way to schtup OPEC, LOL!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
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Et tu, Gene Simmons?
Ancient rocker disparages POTUS
By JULIE MASON | 05/23/11
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Don’t be shy, snake mouth .. ;) But cute how the ever lib Politico slams him with an age slur .. they’re SO predictable.
EEEEEEEEK! My EEEEYESSS!
LoL... Whenever I see those shots all I can think of is the Grinch movie characters....
Thank you, Onyx! That’s great!
Come on now, that's like asking some one to make Aunt Ester, (of Sanford & Son fame), to look stately and refined. Some things are just impossible. For example, how do you make this angry looking, biggoted woman with shoulders that would make an NFL linebacker envious, look feminine? She should just wear a suit and pants and let Barry put on a dress, their makeup handlers could have an easier time of it that way.
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