Congress Takes Aim At the Palestinians

by Mitchell Plitnick
February 3rd, 2015 | http://www.lobelog.com/congress-takes-aim-at-the-palestinians/#more-27915

The imbroglio over House Speaker John Boehner’s unseemly invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month is continuing to rage in Washington. But when it comes to the Palestinians, it is business as usual in Congress.
On February 4, the House of Representatives’ Sub-Committee on the Middle East and North Africa will hold a hearing on suspending aid to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for their temerity in exercising their legal right to bring their grievances against Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The sub-committee, chaired by hawk Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), has stacked the deck well against the Palestinians.http://www.lobelog.com/congress-takes-aim-at-the-palestinians/#more-27915