Netanyahu Takes Center Stage in GOP Battle With Obama

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday will address a Congress featuring divisions not only over his likely message, but on the very nature of his trip to the nation’s capital.

 

At least 50 Democrats plan to skip Netanyahu’s speech. Many of them feel his appearance is little more than a Republican-led effort to undermine President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, specifically his ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Netanyahu is expected to deliver a speech that will be critical of the U.S.-led effort to negotiate with a country the prime minister has said threatens Israel’s survival, an area where Republicans in Congress also have been critical of the president.

 

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