Norcross defies Obama, experts on Iran deal

“The prime minister of the Jewish people would not shut his heart and the gates when people are fleeing for their lives, with babies in their arms, from persecutors”, Herzog said.

In public remarks at a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel was “not indifferent to the human tragedy” of refugees from Syria and noted that Israeli hospitals have been treating wounded from its civil war.

Joel Rosenberg, a New York Times best-selling author and a former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says he’s grateful to see Christian leaders speaking out against what he called the “most unsafe agreement with an enemy of the West since Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Pact with Hitler”. “But Israel is a small country, a very small country, that lacks demographic and geographic depth; therefore, we must control our borders, against both illegal migrants and terrorism”.

The new 30km fence will be a continuation of a 240km barrier that already runs along the Egyptian border.

Jonathan Chait writes that AIPAC’s failure to stop the Iran deal shows that “there is no more “Israel lobby”; there is a red Israel lobby and a blue one“. The two nations have no diplomatic relations. It has also indicated it would assist the minority Druze community in Syria, who live near the border with Israel, if their situation deteriorates.

Meanwhile, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on the United Nations today to press Israel to allow Palestinians from refugee camps in Syria to take shelter in the Palestinian territories, whose external borders are controlled by the Jewish state. Kara said by text message that he was going to discuss with the prime minister the possibility of Israel taking in Druze refugees and other members of Syria’s persecuted minorities. Many conservative supporters of Israel do not necessarily regard the crack-up of American Jewish opinion as a problem.

It has also led to a series of zigzagging policies, including attempting to ban the Africans from seeking employment, internment in a semi-open desert facility and offering to pay them to return to a third country in Africa.

Rights teams say hundreds of African asylum seekers have been coerced into “voluntary” departures.

The United States now grants Israel some $3 billion (2.7 billion euros) in military aid yearly outside of spending on other projects, such as assistance in developing the country’s Iron Dome missile defence system.

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All three were in the private sector or the think tank world when they sent their notes to Hillary Clinton (Indyk later returned to the State Department as an Israeli-Palestinian peace broker in 2013-14, after she left office).