{"id":602828,"date":"2021-07-26T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602828"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:51:08","slug":"cruz-blocks-israel-bill-over-watered-down-support-for-jewish-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blocks-israel-bill-over-watered-down-support-for-jewish-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Blocks Israel Bill Over Watered-Down Support for Jewish State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcruz-blocks-israel-bill-over-watered-down-support-for-jewish-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.397590361446\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Legislation equivocates on diplomatic support for Israel and Palestinian statehood<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-516871676-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-516871676.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-516871676-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-516871676-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2016 (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 July 26, 2021 2:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"102.31365594122\">\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is blocking a piece of Israel-related legislation over concerns that the measure&#8217;s language waters down support for the Jewish state, congressional sources confirmed to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz will also introduce an amendment to the legislation that strips the contested language and replaces it with a statement enshrining American support for Israel, according to a copy of that amendment also obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. The senator will block the bill from moving forward until his amendment is considered.<\/p>\n<p>The bill in question is the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021, which has been working its way through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is now coming up for a vote in the Senate. The legislation broadly aims to solidify congressional support for Abraham Accords peace agreements but has been subject to increasing controversy in recent weeks due to the last-minute inclusion of language that would establish a different U.S. policy equivocating on diplomatic support for Israel and Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n<p>The changes prompted Cruz to pull his sponsorship of the original legislation late last month. Cruz says the current version of the bill would pour millions of dollars in aid into the Palestinian government and completely rewrite longstanding U.S. policy, which specifically supports Israel in its peace negotiations. Cruz&#8217;s amendment would strip the language in question, bringing the bill back in line with established U.S. policy on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute hints at deeper divisions in the Senate over the direction of U.S. policy on peace negotiations and relations with Israel. The Biden administration wants to boost diplomacy with the Palestinian government and has unfrozen millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer aid as a good-will gesture\u2014a decision that Cruz and many other Republicans opposed, citing the Palestinian leadership&#8217;s ongoing support for terrorism and incitement against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The most controversial change in the legislation is the insertion of language that would rewrite American policy regarding peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has mandated since 2012 that U.S. policy must be to &#8220;assist&#8221; and &#8220;support the Government of Israel&#8221; in its ongoing talks with the Palestinians. The Israel Relations Normalization Act, however, alters this language to strip statements of American support for Israel in peace talks, instead stating only that the United States supports &#8220;a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulting in two states living side by side in peace, security, and mutual recognition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The language, Cruz said, was not included in the original legislation and was inserted late last month, just hours before the bill was set to be advanced. Cruz, in a statement at the time, said his efforts to delete the language were thwarted by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leadership. He is now offering an amendment that reinserts language enshrining American support for Israel in peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s amendment reasserts that America\u2019s policy should be to support &#8220;the Government of Israel&#8221; as it negotiates with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hours before the vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee radically changed the bill,&#8221; Cruz said in June, when he decided to pull his name off the bill. &#8220;The language added declared it would be \u2018policy of the United States&#8217; to create a Palestinian state and to pour millions into Palestinian areas despite ongoing Palestinian government salaries for terrorists. I offered amendments to return the bill to its original bipartisan embrace of the Abraham Accords, but they were rejected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. diplomats have no business telling our Israeli allies what to do with their territories, let alone pressuring them to cede sovereignty for a Palestinian state,&#8221; Cruz said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Legislation equivocates on diplomatic support for Israel and Palestinian statehood  Sen. 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