The imbroglio over House Speaker John Boehner’s unseemly invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and John Boehner
Netanyahu after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month is continuing to rage in Washington. But when it comes to the Palestinians, it is business as usual in Congress.
On February 4, the House of Representatives’ Sub-Committee on the Middle East and North Africa will hold a hearing on suspending aid to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for their temerity in exercising their legal right to bring their grievances against Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The sub-committee, chaired by hawk Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), has stacked the deck well against the Palestinians. Read more at LobeLog
Filed under: Congress, International Law, US-Israel Lobby Tagged: AEI, American Enterprise Institute, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Congress on Iran nuclear talks, Danielle Pletka, David Makovsky, FDD, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, John Kerry, Jonathan Schanzer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Marco Rubio, P5+1, Palestinian Authority, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, WINEP
