Israeli Concern Over a Growing Anti-Occupation Movement within Congress

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  • October 21, 2021
Israeli Concern Over a Growing Anti-Occupation Movement within Congress

The Israeli reaction to the move of the United States Congress to block the approval of the Iron Dome System funding has yet to stop.

It is true that he re - agreed, but the obstruction in his corridors sounded the alarm in Tel Aviv, as evidence of the fracturing relationship between the two biggest strategic allies.

The Israelis use this event by pointing fingers at those they call "radical" members of the ruling Democratic Party of the United States in Washington, calling them a "curse" on Israel, and working on a new standard of opposition to United States security assistance, even though they eventually failed to block additional funding for the Iron Dome.

General Aaron Lehrman, a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Security Studies, claimed that "what Congress has seen about the financing of the Iron Dome has resulted in the actual result that, rather than undermining support for Israel, a dramatic reality has emerged that has revealed the depth of bipartisan support for this security assistance to Israel."

In his article in Israel Today, Lehrman stated that "Israel's proper conduct in this case, both towards the United States Administration in the White House and towards the leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate, is to deepen the political isolation of the radical group in President Joe Biden's party, and to warn members of Congress of the Democratic Party, who are considered moderate, of the harm done by those radical members of the party."

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