{"id":1853,"date":"2023-10-18T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/politics\/swift-confirmation-of-new-ambassador-to-israel-uncertain-as-senate-republicans-attack-his-involvement-in-iran-nuclear-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:08:31","slug":"swift-confirmation-of-new-ambassador-to-israel-uncertain-as-senate-republicans-attack-his-involvement-in-iran-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectwithfund.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Swift confirmation of new ambassador to Israel uncertain as Senate Republicans attack his involvement in Iran nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n President Joe Biden\u2019s pick for ambassador to Israel, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, will face tough questions from Senate Republicans during his confirmation hearing Wednesday morning \u2013 and some are already signaling that they may slow down consideration of his nomination on the Senate floor.\n <\/p>\n

\n Several top GOP senators have expressed their concerns over Lew\u2019s involvement in the Iran nuclear deal during the Obama administration, arguing that although it\u2019s important to confirm a new ambassador as quickly as possible, given the conflict in the region, he may not be the right man for the job.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sen. Marco Rubio, a senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo, \u201cI think we should have an ambassador in every country, it has to be the right person. In the case of Mr. Lew, I have real concerns that he has misled and lied to Congress in the past, in terms of some of the financial arrangements that were made under the Obama Administration.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Another Republican on the panel, Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, told CNN, \u201cWe have to have his hearing, but I have some very serious concerns about him and his involvement with the Iran nuclear deal, a deal that in my opinion is giving nuclear weapons to Iran, facilitating that. So, we\u2019ll have to see what he says in there and take it from there.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He added, \u201cI imagine a lot of people will ask questions about that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n While Lew only needs 51 votes to be confirmed, assuming his nomination is advanced by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, any one senator can slow the process down on the Senate floor. Senate Minority Whip John Thune, the no. 2 Republican in the Senate, told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju on Monday there is \u201ca lot of resistance\u201d to Lew\u2019s nomination.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another top Republican in leadership, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, told CNN on Tuesday that he believes one of his colleagues may place a hold to delay Lew\u2019s confirmation. \u201cI would expect so,\u201d he said, though he would not say who he thinks would take that step.\n <\/p>\n

\n Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican who has attacked Lew as an \u201cIran sympathizer who has no business being our ambassador,\u201d indicated on Tuesday that he may block a speedy confirmation of Lew.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cCertainly Jack Lew will have to go through all the procedural steps that we go through for any random district judge or assistant administrator of the EPA,\u201d he said. When asked if they would have unanimous consent to skip some of those steps, as the Senate often does, Cotton replied, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to skip those for a soft-on-Iran ambassadorial nominee to Israel in the middle of a war with Iran\u2019s proxies in Israel.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Lew played a key role in the original Iranian nuclear deal in 2015, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fiercely opposed saying it gives gives Iran a clear path to an atomic arsenal. Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, a move that was supported by Israel.\n <\/p>\n

\n Senate Democrats have pushed back, saying that Lew is qualified and that confirming a new ambassador to Israel should be one of their highest priorities.\n <\/p>\n

\n Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Ben Cardin told reporters on Tuesday, \u201cHe\u2019s highly qualified, he\u2019s the right person for the right job, but we want to be most effective as possible in helping Israel to deal with the hostages, to deal with the humanitarian needs, to deal with normalization.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Maryland Democrat added, \u201cWe need a confirmed ambassador in Israel as soon as possible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n However, Republicans remain unconvinced. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a member of Senate GOP leadership, said that he is also \u201cvery troubled by some of what Senator Cotton addressed in terms of his appeasement, and, frankly, the appeasement approach of the Biden administration and the Obama administration. Iran is still the number one state sponsor of terrorism.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He continued, \u201cProxies, like Hezbollah and Hamas are determined to wipe Israel off the map. And they\u2019ve pretty much circumvented sanctions, which were supposed to have been imposed by the Treasury Department under Jack Lew, and selling oil on the open market and relieving some of the pressure that was there to get them to stop their nuclear program.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Iran is the main backer of terror groups Hamas, based in Gaza, and Hezbollah, based in Southern Lebanon.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cotton argued that rejecting Lew will send a powerful signal.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI know Democrats are saying that we need to confirm Jack Lew quickly to show our support for Israel. I would say it\u2019s the exact opposite. We need to defeat Jack Lew\u2019s nomination to show that we have a new approach to Iran,\u201d he said in an interview on Fox News.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a post on X, Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri agreed.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAs Obama\u2019s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was a key figure in the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran is the chief sponsor of Hamas. Jack Lew has no business being the US Ambassador to Israel,\u201d Schmitt wrote.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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