Tag: Mitch McConnell

Last week, McConnell told Axios after a trip to Jerusalem that the Israeli government’s planned judicial reform is an internal Israeli matter and the US should not intervene.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led American lawmakers to the Jewish state.

Phew...

Garland will be the third Jewish Attorney General in American history.

It's good to be the king, but then, inevitably, those folks with the pitchforks and guillotines show up at your door and ask if you could please step outside for a moment.

No doubt, it's by far more effective stuff than Israelis are used to both in terms of the sophistication of the video production and the raw bluntness of the message.

"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral."

“This partisan impeachment will end today. But, I fear the threat to our institutions may not. Normally, when a party loses an election, it accepts defeat. . . But not this time.”

Would lawmakers neuter the presidency over an insult? Pettier things have happened.

Here's one good clue on distinguishing between US detention centers for immigrants and Nazi concentration camps: in the US the worst that can happen to you is to be expelled to Mexico.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was joined initially by her congressional allies on other issues, among them vile attacks on Israel and on Jews, Deb Haaland, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Antonio Delgado – all Democrats.

The bill was rushed in just before President Trump’s State of the Union address, in which he insisted on his plan to withdraw US troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

The bill's opponents included Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

It appears Ha'aretz is willing to see Israeli high court justices' lives be put in jeopardy just to advance the paper's political ends. So much for tolerance and liberalism.

Both top Senate Republicans have already announced that the next president - not Obama - should get to pick Scalia's replacement.

The Senate blocked a vote to strengthen the Iran deal which would protect Israel and release American hostages from Iran.

The Senate voted 62-37 Tuesday night to pass a House bill that resumes clauses in the Patriot Ac t that expired Sunday night and...

Netanyahu's speech, attacked as partisan, birthed a very significant bipartisan Congressional review agreement.

Netanyahu to meet with bipartisan congressional leadership before he addresses the joint session of Congress on March 3.

Republicans now control both houses of congress. Netanyahu is likely in a good mood this morning.

There are those who think a politician cannot be charged with anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism if the politician appoints Jews or Israelis to high positions....