On Wednesday,
Mother Jones and NBC News reported that a top Biden national security aide who is an expert on Russian cyber had given over half a million dollars to AIPAC in recent years through a family foundation. And the aide’s husband is on the AIPAC executive council in Baltimore.
AIPAC is of course the leading Israel lobby group, which supports everything the rightwing Israeli government does, from persecuting Palestinians to threatening Iran.
Mother Jones and NBC questioned Anne Neuberger’s fitness to be deputy national security adviser for cyber on the National Security Council.
Well in no time, NBC (and its very professional reporter, Ken Dilanian) came under a hail of criticism including from AIPAC, other Jewish groups, and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: $49.6 million (versus $42.6 million in 2019) and $12.4 million in Q4 2020 (versus $11.4 million in Q4 2019)
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As the 117
th Congress gets to work, major challenges at home and across the globe will require congressional attention. Some of these challenges, such as a hostile Iran, will directly impact the US-Israel relationship. At the same time, Congress will have opportunities to build on recent successes in the Middle East, like the signing of the Abraham Accords. With a razor thin majority, bipartisan support is going to be critical to advance any issue or policy.
The US-Israel relationship, founded on shared values and mutual interests, is an issue that unites the overwhelming majority of Democrats and Republicans. In fact, the 2020 election cycle further proved that support for the US-Israel relationship isn’t just good policy – it’s good politics on both sides of the aisle, as almost all strong supporters of the US-Israel relationship won their competitive reelection races.
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Joe Biden Pauses Trump-Era Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
The news came after HuffPost reported that a group of top Democrats in the House of Representatives were urging Biden to reassess U.S.-Saudi ties.
President Joe Biden has paused billions of dollars in weapons shipments to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, U.S. wealthy partners in the Persian Gulf whose human rights abuses have caused growing alarm in Washington, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed through major arms deals with the Saudis and Emiratis over objections from Congress. Now, Biden could entirely block two of Trump’s parting gifts to the two autocratic Arab regimes: a $500 million package of bombs for the Saudis and a $23 billion package for the Emiratis that included the F-35, America’s most advanced fighter jet.
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