Two Democratic senators on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Senate Democratic caucus in a private meeting.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote in a letter to Netanyahu that House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) invitation “threatens to undermine the important bipartisan approach toward Israel,” according to Bloomberg News.
“It sacrifices deep and well-established cooperation on Israel for short-term partisan points — something that should never be done with Israeli security and which we feel could have lasting repercussions,” the senators wrote.
Since Boehner invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress without consulting the White House, numerous House and Senate Democrats have threatened to boycott the speech or announced that they will not attend.
This is a terrible idea. Israeli security is, of course, a bi-partisan issue. We can probably discuss all this in depth with the new Prime Minister of Israel after the election. Feinstein and Durbin should not be bailing Bibi out of the hole he threw himself into.
Meddling dinofi.
I’d like to see Feinstein and Durbin switch hairdos…
why private? …where they will eagerly prostrate themselves before netanyahu and devoutly proclaim their undying support for israel above all else – including their allegiance to the united states.
Pathetic.