J Street is the Soros sock puppet analogue to AIPAC, whose role is to provide a “pro-Israel” cover for leftwing and Democratic politicians who hate Israel. It looks like they’re getting bolder the longer Joe Biden lives in the White House.
[IsraelTimes] As White House takes wait-and-see attitude, Congress members addressing group’s conference blast ’extreme right-wing’ coalition being formed by Netanyahu, liken him to Trump| It’s so cliché when Progressives screech about those they dislike being eeeeevil rightwing fascists. |
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
chose a more cautious approach.
Most of the politicians are self-described progressives and part of a camp that has long grown uncomfortable with Israeli actions in the West Bank, but they are also not aligned with the more left-wing Squad that includes such politicians as Alexandria
SandyOcasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the
Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
and Ilhan Omar
...Somali-
AmericanDem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
, and made a point of highlighting the importance of the US-Israel relationship.
The representatives’ lack of hesitation in openly lamenting prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power and his elevation of bad boy politicians to senior posts served as a preview to the kind of pressure the Biden administration will likely face from its own party to come down harder on Israel in the coming years.
For now, the administration indicated it was taking a wait-and-see approach to its dealings with the next Israeli government, which could be sworn in within days.
"We will gauge the government by the policies it pursues rather than individual personalities," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the conference.
The White House held a meeting last week to discuss how it might engage with the next government, but no decisions were made, Axios reported Wednesday.
An official familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel that US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides is currently not planning to meet with Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of the bad boy Otzma Yehudit party who Netanyahu has tapped to become the next minister in charge of police. That policy may also extend to Bezalel Smotrich, who Netanyahu plans to appoint as finance minister and whose pro-annexationist Religious Zionism party has also been granted authority over a pair of Defense Ministry bodies heavily involved in West Bank policy.
"In Israel, the political forces defending democracy and equal rights and freedom under law and the grinding of the peace processor must contend with a surging far-right alliance in the Knesset, which is poised to contribute numerous members to Netanyahu’s new cabinet," said Rep. Jamie Raskin, who led the impeachment efforts against former president Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
"The inclusion of political hard boyz in the government of a democratic society — as we’ve seen recently here in the Trump administration — constitutes a clear and present danger to democratic values, the rule of law and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
," he added in his keynote address at the conference’s opening plenary on Saturday night.
Seven-term congressman Rep. Gerry Connolly tore into Netanyahu’s decision to "trash" former president Barak Obama’s Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....policy in an address to a joint session of Congress in 2015 and said the only solution to dealing with the Islamic Theocratic
Republicthat the prime minister-designate will accept is a "kinetic" one where the US conducts a military strike against Tehran’s nuclear sites. "The consequences would be catastrophic," he said.
"Bibi [should know] that when he comes here, he’d better not try to divide us on partisan lines again. He’d better not risk Israel’s long-term support in the United States by making it a partisan issue. And he’d better listen to voices, including the voices in this room, who are growing in number," Connolly said on Monday.
"He’s put together the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel, including people who were not long ago designated as terrorist supporting, not only by our government and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
but by Israel itself," Connolly said of Ben Gvir, whose Otzma Yehudit party members are disciples of the late bad boy rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahane’s Kach party has been outlawed in the US and Israel as a terror organization.
Rep. Peter Welch, who recently won the election for one of Virginia’s two Senate seats, said Netanyahu has "display[ed] a callous disregard for the principles of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
"Why is he working to create a government that not only opposes a two-state solution, but one that would include ministers who would expel Arab Israeli citizens?" he asked. Ben Gvir campaigned on expelling "disloyal" Arab citizens.
"I cannot support Netanyahu’s efforts to undermine the very aspirations of the democratic State of Israel by marginalizing, annexing and compromising rights of Arab Israeli citizens," Welch added.
He also referenced Trump’s dinner last month with prominent antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes: "Bibi didn’t have dinner with Trump and Ye and Fuentes, but it’s clear he’s serving the same menu."
In her video address to the conference, Rep. Becca Balint — who will replace Welch in the House of Representatives — hailed the earlier remarks of J Street president Jeremy Ben Ami. "An ultra-right-wing Netanyahu government will force a moment of reckoning for the US-Israel relationship," she quoted him as having said.
Speaking together onstage about the J Street-sponsored trips they took to Israel and the West Bank, Reps. Melanie Stansbury, Jennifer Wexton, Madeleine Dean and Sean Casten expressed their dismay at the situation on the ground, particularly for Paleostinians in Hebron and for Israelis in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
border, vowing to do their part from the Hill to bring it to an end.
Dean, a Philadelphia area congresswoman, also made a point of expressing her concern over how the next Israeli government might exacerbate the situation. "I’m so gravely concerned about the direction that... [the new government] will take Israel and the Paleostinian people."
Wexton, who has in past signed onto initiatives expressing her concern over Israeli unilateral measures in the West Bank, said she expected the Biden administration to follow through on pledges to block them.
"And if they don’t, I’ve got Secretary Blinken coming before my committee soon, and I think that I’ll ask him about that," she said.
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