Washington – Congress leaders meet this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu After some legislators accused the Israeli leader of trying to hang the United States in another war.
Netanyahu met the president of the Mike Johnson room on Tuesday after meeting earlier during the day with vice-president JD Vance. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, postponed a trip to Israel in June to address the Israeli Parliament, known as Knesset, while war broke out with Iran.
In a statement, Johnson said that he and Netanyahu had discussed the United States’s commitment to Israel’s security and a cease-fire agreement in Gaza.
“America and the strong stand of Israel in the 12-day war brought a devastating blow to the greatest enemy of the Peace in the region, leaving the Iranian regime lower than in any time of the decades. We hope it marks the dawn of a new chapter of peace in the Middle East,” said Johnson.
Netanyahu’s meeting with a bipartite group of more than a dozen senators was delayed until Wednesday. The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, a republican of the southern Dakota, and the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, both attended the meeting.
Visits from Netanyahu to the American Capitol intervene while Mr. Trump faces the criticism of the Democrats and certain Republicans about his decision to Strike three locations in the center of the Iranian nuclear program last month.
Legislators Introduced several measures In the Senate and the House, seeks to prevent Trump from taking new measures against Iran without approval. The Senate voted for a resolution of the war powers introduced by the Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, while the other measures have not yet received a vote.
Netanyahu met the administration officials on Monday and had White House Dinner with the president. Addressing journalists on Monday, Trump expressed his confidence that there will soon be a cease-fire with Hamas. And during the American talks in Iran, he planned that more details would be released on Tuesday.
After his meeting with Johnson on Tuesday afternoon, Netanyahu told journalists that “President Trump’s resolved decision to act with us against those who sought to destroy Israel and threaten world peace made a remarkable change in the Middle East”.
“There are peace opportunities that we intend to achieve,” added Netanyahu. “We work together on this subject. We must still finish work in Gaza, free all our hostages, eliminate and destroy the military and governance capacities of Hamas because Gaza must have a different future for ours, for everyone.”
Netanyahu said coordination between the United States and Trump was “unrivaled”.
The President and the Prime Minister met again on Tuesday afternoon. Trump said in advance that he expected to speak with the Israeli chief of “mainly Gaza”.
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On Wednesday afternoon, at the American Capitol, Netanyahu said that Mr. Trump wanted a peace agreement, “but not at any price”.
Meetings come after Johnson postponed A trip planned in Israel last month, where he was to address the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, in the middle of the open war between Israel and Iran. This would have been one of the short trips abroad he made since he became a speaker. Johnson met Netanyahu in Washington in February. During this visit, Netanyahu also met the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune and a bipartite group Senators.
Israeli Prime Minister tackled A joint meeting of the Congress almost a year ago when he sought to strengthen the support of the War of Israel against Hamas in Gaza, while criticizing those who had protested the conflict.
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