Rubio, who’s the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and has access to sensitive intelligence, has been posting these fairly confident and explicit warnings (on a personal account) of imminent Iranian action against Israel for several days.

In an interview with Marc Rod, Virginia congressional candidate Derrick Anderson says his military experience shapes his Middle East policy.

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Despite being on paternity leave, Matthew Kassel flags that AIPAC's PAC issued its second endorsement for a non-incumbent Senate candidate, endorsing John Curtis in Utah.

An additional sign of why national pro-Israel groups decided to steer clear of Summer Lee's primary: her opponent, Bhavini Patel raised $290k this quarter compared to $919k for Lee.

NEW Jewish Insider via ⁦Marc Rod⁩: Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC) said that she’s “worried that efforts and threats by her colleagues to suspend aid to Israel are making it less likely that Hamas will accept a deal to free the hostages” jewishinsider.com/2024/04/kathy-…

A senior State Department officials said today the Department does expect the Tsurkov case to be raised during the Iraqi PM's visit.

AIPAC's United Democracy Project super PAC has already more than doubled its initial $600,000 buy in favor of Sarah Elfreth. It crossed $1.3 million in its latest filing. jewishinsider.com/2024/04/harry-…

Joyce, atop the Homeland Security subcommittee had fought for (modest) funding increases for NSGP last year. Not clear yet who will take his place.

The exact details of how US humanitarian efforts in Gaza are working without funding UNRWA has been shrouded in questions. USAID's Samantha Power indicated yesterday UNRWA is still heavily involved and working with groups getting U.S. funding, even if UNRWA isn't directly.

Manchin said that the public pressure campaign on Israel 'doesn't help' its negotiating position with Hamas.

Fetterman said that 'capitulating' isn't helpful to Israel's leverage and that 'Hamas is convinced that they've already won that PR war' and isn't inclined to bargain.

NEW Jewish Insider via Emily Jacobs / Marc Rod: 'Democrats are facing heat from some in their party over concerns about their public pressure campaign against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'

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“If this responsibility doesn’t fall on top-level people in the administration, then it’s easy for the problems to move to the bottom of somebody’s to-do list and we do not want that to happen,' Rep. Kathy Manning said.

I dive in here on the details of the major new bill:

U.S. lawmakers call for possible sanctions against Turkey in response to new trade restrictions against Israel.

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House Republicans coming out of a meeting say there was no discussion/clarity on what today’s FISA stumble means for foreign aid, which was originally planned as the main focus next week

NEW with Briana Reilly — the House Armed Services Committee plans to mark up its version of the NDAA on Wednesday May 22, with likely floor consideration in June.

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