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December 05, 2019 |
Your
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Rep.
Zeldin Introduces Resolution Condemning Rocket Attacks on
Israel
Arutz Sheva reports on
House
Resolution 727:
Two Jewish congressmen have introduced a bipartisan resolution
in the US House of Representatives that condemns recent terrorist
rocket attacks on Israel and supports Israel’s right to defend
itself....
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Lee
Zeldin (R-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign
Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and co-chair of
the House Republican Israel Caucus, respectively, sponsored the
resolution.
The resolution currently has 25 co-sponsors. It notes the
support of the House for Israel's right to defend itself against
terrorist groups and commends the US commitment to Israel's security,
including military assistance for the Iron Dome missile defense
system.
In the most recent rocket attacks, in mid-November, Palestinian
Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza launched more
than 450 rockets at Israel.
RJC
Condemns Neo-Nazi Candidate in
Illinois
The Algemeiner reports:
Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi Arthur Jones has
filed to again run for the Republican nomination for the US House of
Representatives in the Illinois 3rd Congressional
District.
…In a statement to The Chicago Sun Times,
Illinois Republican Party chairman Tim Schneider said
his party “vehemently condemns Arthur Jones’ candidacy. His racism and
bigotry have no place in our party or American politics. As we did in
2016 and 2018, we will oppose his candidacy in every way
possible.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition slammed
Jones.
“Like the Illinois GOP, we vehemently oppose Jones’s
candidacy. Jones is a Nazi, not a Republican,” RJC spokesperson
Neil Strauss emailed JNS. “There are two actual
Republicans running in this primary, and we look forward to one of
them winning the nomination.”
“At the end of the day, two things are true,” he continued.
“First, sometimes the price we pay to live in a free society is that
even someone as odious as Jones gets to run for public office. Two,
the Democrats have actual elected members of Congress (Ilhan
Omar [of Minnesota] and Rashida Tlaib [of
Michigan]) who are vicious antisemites, and whom they support and
assign to influential committees.”
For example, Omar is a member of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, while Tlaib is on the House Financial Services Committee
and the House Oversight Committee.
“We strongly
opposed Jones in
the past,” added Strauss. “We worked with the [Republican National
Committee] and the Illinois GOP to make sure Jones had no
institutional support.”
Israel on the World
Stage
The news this week included reports on Israeli diplomatic
efforts:
Washington Free Beacon: International
Criminal Court declines to prosecute alleged Israeli war
crimes.
The
International Criminal Court on Monday declined to reopen an
investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes stemming from a 2010
incident in which a Gaza-bound flotilla filled with militant
anti-Israel agitators was intercepted by Israeli authorities, leading
to a bloody confrontation. Pro-Israel legal experts who have been
following the hotly contested case celebrated the decision as a
hard-fought win in a court that has historically been hostile to
Israel.
Times of Israel: In
surprise change, 13 countries vote against pro-Palestine UN
resolution.
Germany, the
Czech Republic, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece,
Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Brazil, and Colombia for
the first time voted against the resolution regarding the Division of
Palestinian Rights at the UN Secretariat.
Associated Press: Israel
to UN - Uprooted Jews should be seen as
refugees.
Israel wants
the United Nations to recognize as refugees hundreds of thousands of
Jews who fled Arab and Muslim countries in the last century, its UN
envoy said Tuesday.
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