WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are pushing to prevent the Biden administration from bypassing Congress when approving weapons sales to Israel as the Jewish state continues its war against Hamas under increasing scrutiny. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia will be introducing an amendment Tuesday that if passed would strike language in the $118 billion national […]
The Israel–Hamas war raced ahead on dual tracks Tuesday, with Israeli officials vowing to press forward with an offensive in the southern Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border even as both sides — and the Biden administration — tried to clinch a deal that would free all remaining hostages held by the Palestinian militants. Hamas […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson accused President Biden of abandoning Israel in its hour of need by threatening to veto a standalone aid bill. He said the aid for Israel’s war with Hamas will get there faster and get it “off the table” by decoupling it from President Biden’s border policy and foreign aid package that […]
As the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate stalls on funding for Israel, the House of Representatives is introducing new legislation to succeed where the upper chamber of Congress is failing. The Washington Stand has obtained a copy of a letter House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is preparing to send to his colleagues. It reads, in part, “Next […]
The House GOP majority will move forward this week with a new piece of legislation that is unlikely to result in anything more than sending a message to their counterparts in the Senate. The bill would provide more than 17 billion dollars for aid to Israel and replenish American arms stockpiles that have been depleted […]
House Republicans will introduce a bill this week that would give Israel $17.6 billion in military aid, more than the $14.3 billion in Israeli aid contained in the national security bill that will be considered by the Senate next week. The extra $3.3 billion is for U.S. military operations in the Middle East. […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson quashed any notion of putting a border security and foreign aid package on the House floor soon, saying Senate leadership “eliminated the ability for swift consideration” of the legislation because of a lack of House GOP input. Mr. Johnson told his conference in a letter obtained by The Washington Times that […]
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Saturday expressed deep concern over reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt where more than a million people have escaped the fighting. The EU’s top diplomat warned that conflict is likely to spread throughout […]
Everyone else: Yeah, sure. According to the Qataris, Hamas has agreed in principle to a temporary cessation in fighting to exchange all of the remaining hostages on a 1:3 ratio of Palestinian prisoners. Despite explicitly and publicly rejecting this formula just days ago, supposedly the Hamas negotiators today offered their “initial approval.” Not even the Palestinians […]
The State Department, one of the uglier buildings in Washington, D.C., has all but relocated to Dearborn, Michigan, at least as far as the Israeli-Hamas conflict goes. Sure, there are dozens and dozens of career staffers at Foggy Bottom that are boycotting Uber Eats and Door Dash for lunch, participating in a hunger strike to […]
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