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In 2019, USAID and MASHAV signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on global development cooperation. This bill fulfills that MoU and enables the two nations to continue that work, but the program must be reauthorized.

Moreover, Iran has offered to help Russia evade sanctions with both countries having collaborated with China to increase diplomatic, economic and defense cooperation, noted the letter.

“The United States must not tolerate anybody who provides support to these radical Islamic terrorists,” said Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.).

She said Gators for Israel, the University of Florida pro-Israel group, has included one in a package it is sending to her office on Capitol Hill.

Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) and Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) were sworn in with hundreds of other legislators.

A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives has called for related language in a must-pass appropriations bill.

The anti-Israel bill is cosponsored by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andre Carson and Mark Pocan. The Squad+.

"Settlement expansion into the occupied West Bank makes a contiguous Palestinian state inviable, jeopardizing Israel’s future" as a democracy.

"My hope is that they recognize that his existence, his policies, his rhetoric really is contradictory to the peace we are all hoping the region receives."

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) offered Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) the opportunity to discuss how to fight religious bigotry over Somali tea.

“They forgot what country they represent. This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right & part of our historical fight for freedom & equality.”

“Ultimately, these textbooks are a major impediment to the possibility of peace. They deny young Palestinians the chance of a violence-free and peaceful future..."

After Trump signed the waiver Friday, Iran deal critics in both the Senate and the House called for language that applies to all missiles.

"News the Obama administration killed the investigation into a billion dollar drug ring that lined the terrorist group Hezbollah's pockets in order to save its coveted Iran deal may take the cake."

"The House has taken a crucial step towards ending the PA's intentional misuse of foreign assistance to financially reward terrorists and their families."

The White House warning on Wednesday that there is "nothing to report" makes it clear that another signature on a waiver is more likely than not.

"In practice, by closing the [PLO mission in Washington] they are freezing all meetings and we are making that official."

"They'd shoot me and I'd die, and my children would receive an allowance... I don't regret what I did."

Congress demands all IRS documents from 2009 till now that could reveal a policy to persecute pro-Israel Americans.

The IDF deployed its ninth Iron Dome battery this week, after it was scheduled to be prepared only in a few months and was produced in record time.