Vice President Biden And Democrats Might Skip Netanyahu Speech To Congress

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Vice President Joe Biden won’t commit to attending Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress next month.

He’s not the only one.

Dozens of House Democrats are privately threatening to skip the March 3 address, according to lawmakers and aides, in what’s become the lowest point of a relationship between the Israeli prime minister and President Barack Obama that’s never been good.

Democrats have had to balance publicly supporting Israel with backing Obama, who’s trying to close a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear programs over vehement opposition from Netanyahu, who has expressed concerns that the U.S. president is being naive. Negotiations are facing a deadline at the end of March for a political framework.

The speech was devised by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer to provide Netanyahu a prominent Washington platform to warn about the dangers of the proposed deal with Iran. But it also appeared to be based on an Israeli perception that Obama was weakened after midterm elections gave control of both houses of Congress to Republicans, and timed to take place just two weeks before Netanyahu faces re-election on March 17 — and footage of American officials applauding him couldn’t hurt his prospects.

More: Democrats might skip Benjamin Netanyahu speech - Edward-Isaac Dovere and Jake Sherman - POLITICO

I sincerely hope Vice President Biden and all Democrats boycott the Netanyahu speech to Congress!

How utterly petulant.

My goodness. You should know

 

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Republicans don't understand that never in the history of the country, has an opposing party brought a foreign leader here in the hopes of embarrassing the president. Even many Republicans think it's ill advised. This is going to back fire on them.

Fox news anchor blasts Netanyahu s dicey politics of sneaking into Congress for speech - Israel News - Jerusalem Post

 

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