In February, at least two congressional delegations visited Israel, as well as Judea and Samaria. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Sean Casten (D-IL) went with J Street. Others went with the U.S. Israel Education Association. Only one group seemed to go with open eyes and open minds.Members of the USIEA delegation met with Israeli officials, Arab Israeli leaders, Palestinian businesspeople, security experts, and local residents. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) described a region shaped by long-standing disputes and security challenges, but also by the historic connection of the Jewish people to the land and the constructive role Israel plays there today.
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Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) was struck by the level to which corruption, dysfunction, and failed leadership within the Palestinian Authority have played in shaping Palestinian daily life.
By contrast, in their recent article about the trip, DeLauro and Casten expose their unwillingness to be moved off positions they already held “over the years.”
They call the region “the West Bank,” as though the name were a neutral term. Jordan coined the term after seizing the territory through a brutal act of ethnic cleansing in 1948. Jewish residents were expelled. Dozens of synagogues were destroyed. A Jewish presence stretching back centuries was erased. Then Jordan named what it had taken.
