| Just that brief glimpse of the behind the scenes activity that's just as important as moving divisions around. I'm sure there's some reason we shouldn't be doing it... |
Israel and the United States have launched an effort to recruit European parliamentarians to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Israel's Knesset and the U.S. Congress have begun a joint effort to persuade European Union deputies of the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Knesset and Congress plan to send representatives to Europe for meetings in Brussels with EU parliamentarians on defense and security committees. The Knesset program was spawned in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and would seek to focus on lobbying parliamentarians from Britain and Germany. Members of the committee discussed the effort with leading members of Congress. Sen. Jon Kyle, a Republican from Nevada, was appointed to lead the Congress-Knesset panel. Kyle said during a meeting of the panel on Jan. 11 that the EU was required for any diplomatic offensive to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. |