Presidential decision is being described by some as a slap in the face to Netanyahu, who will also address the conference.
Gil Ronen
Israel National News
2/26/2015
US President Barack Obama is sending National Security Advisor Susan Rice and UN Ambassador Samantha Power to address the AIPAC convention next week.
The two are “widely seen as among the most anti-Israel members” of Obama’s administration, according to Breitbart.com, which says the decision to send them is “a further slap in the face” by Obama.
Rice caused a stir earlier this week when she told interviewer Charlie Rose that the decision by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address a special joint session of Congress – after being invited by republican House Speaker John Boehner – was “destructive” to the fabric of US-Israel relations.
Power said, in 2002, that the US should send troops to impose peace between Israelis and Palestinians – although she later took back this statement…
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