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Ahead of Knesset address, US House Speaker McCarthy calls Israel ‘blessed nation’

2023-05-01

[IsraelTimes] Republican Congressional leader brings bipartisan delegation of 20 politicians to Western Wall, will be first speaker to address parliament since Newt Gingrich
...former Speaker of the House, author of the Contract with America. Gingrich gave the country welfare reform and a balanced budget and the Publicans a landslide House victory in 1994. On the downside, he has a roving eye and a loose fly, he's opinionated, and he's abrasive despite his ability to work with the other side of the political aisle...
in 1998.

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
called Israel "a blessed nation" in Jerusalem on Sunday, a day before he was set to address the Knesset.

"Israel you are a blessed nation," McCarthy wrote in the Western Wall visitors’ book after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, adding: "Our shared values unite a bond that will never break."

The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican is leading a bipartisan group of 20 US congressmen, who joined Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch in prayer at the Kotel.

McCarthy placed a traditional note in the Wall, and said he was looking forward to the 75-year-old nation’s next 75 years.

McCarthy, who will become the second US House speaker to address the Knesset plenum, was greeted earlier Sunday at Ben Gurion Airport by his Israeli counterpart Amir Ohana of the Likud party.

The Knesset speaker had extended the invitation to Israel when he called McCarthy in January to congratulate him on being elected speaker of the House, after a bitter vote that saw the far right of the GOP revolt against him. McCarthy and Ohana’s offices held talks about the trip in the months that followed.

Only one other House speaker has given a speech in the Knesset plenum — Newt Gingrich in 1998.

McCarthy last month issued a statement of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one day after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
tore into the Israeli government’s effort to overhaul the judiciary and declared that the Likud leader would not receive a White House invite in the near future.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu is an Israeli patriot, statesman, and most importantly, a great friend of the United States of America," McCarthy said at the time. "Free societies have vigorous and open debate. Israel is no exception. I support Prime Minister Netanyahu, and America’s support for Israel’s strong, vibrant democracy is unwavering. Now is an important time for Americans to stand together in support of our long, mutually respectful, and important friendship with Israel."

McCarthy is one of several high-profile American politicians visiting Israel this month.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
met with Netanyahu on April 17, passing along messages he received while in Riyadh last week regarding the potential for a US-brokered Saudi-Israel normalization agreement.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — who came under fire recently amid the uncovering of a 1990s op-ed he wrote defending Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — led a delegation of congressional Democrats for meetings with Israeli and Paleostinian officials.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was in Jerusalem last Thursday in a visit widely seen as a precursor to his bid to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 US presidential election.

US House Speaker McCarthy: If Biden doesn’t invite Netanyahu to DC soon, I will

[IsraelTimes] Visiting Israel, top Republican congressman says president has waited ‘too long’ to extend invitation to Israeli leader, a ‘dear friend’

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 There is something wrong here. This is like the Seinfeld episode where Jerry filled in too competently for Newman as a postal carrier. McCarthy is Paul Ryan’s best friend yet he appears not to be serving Democrat interests.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-05-01 12:20

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