May 19, 2021
Meeks makes a mess out of the Foreign Affairs Committee
By David Zukerman
Eliot L. Engel was a Bronx congressman, elected in 1988. He served from 1989 until 2021. A literal liberal Democrat, he was a reliable supporter of Israel. His last term, he rose to be chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 2019 to 2021. As chairman, he was in position to contain the rabid anti-Israel ramblings of the new, totalitarian-minded Democrat leftists.
The Wall Street Journal, in a May 18 news report, informed readers that Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, the Democrat who succeeded Mr. Engel as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committe, "told Committee Democrats Monday evening (May 17) that we would consider sending a letter to the administration this week urging a delay on the sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel until lawmakers can review the sale, according to two people familiar with the matter."
(The report continued, "Republicans have pressed Mr. Biden to take a more firm stance in defense of Israel.")
Had Mr. Engel not been defeated in a Democrat primary by Mr. J. Bowman, a radical leftist in the mold of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Meeks would not now be chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and there would not no thought, at the time of attack on Israel form the Gaza-based Hamas, of threatening the target of the Hamas attack with a cut-off in military sales.
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