Washington Policy Weekly

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 28, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    A group of House Democrats wrote to Secretary Blinken to prevent Israel’s eviction of 38 Palestinian families from the…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 21, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    House Republicans introduce legislation to oppose lifting terrorism sanctions and any restoration of the JCPOA so long as Iran…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 14, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Republican senators ask the Biden Administration to abandon nuclear negotiations with Iran and Democratic senators call for investigating civilian…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 7, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Lee Zeldin introduced the Israel Anti-Boycott Act in the House of Representatives to combat what he deemed attempts by…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 28, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Twelve Democratic and Independent senators wrote to Secretary Blinken expressing their opposition to designating Yemen’s Houthis a Foreign Terrorist…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 22, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Speaker Pelosi led a delegation of seven committee and subcommittee Democratic leaders to Israel and Palestine where they met…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 14, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Senator Rand Paul expressed his strong opposition to arms sales to Egypt. Objecting to what he called “mere slaps…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 7, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Congressional rejection of the report by Amnesty International on Israeli apartheid; President Biden’s designation of Qatar as a major…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 31, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Rep. Gregory Meeks and Democratic colleagues wrote to Secretary Blinken urging the administration to adhere to its commitment to…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 24, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urge Biden to continue efforts to secure the release of journalist Austin…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 18, 2022Imad K. Harb Zahraa Alribeawi

    James Risch (R-Idaho), introduced S.3467 to withhold US contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Dec 13, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Tensions in Congress rose as the Senate prepared to vote on a joint resolution providing congressional disapproval of US…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Dec 6, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman introduced a bipartisan bill to curb the development of Iran's unmanned combat aerial…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 29, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Twenty-five House Democratic members wrote a letter to Secretary Blinken expressing their concern about Israel’s plan to build 3,400…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 22, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Republicans want to prevent the Biden Administration from opening a consulate in Jerusalem and the State Department confirms that…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 15, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    House Democrats issued a joint statement regarding the State Department’s notification of arms sales to Saudi Arabia sent to…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 8, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart introduced S.3151 and H.R.5840 urging the US secretary of state to designate…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 1, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) introduced H.Res.744 condemning Iran for its persecution of the minority Bahai community, in violation of…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Oct 25, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky introduced the Combating International Islamophobia Act (H.R.5665). The bill mandates that the State Department…

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    Washington Policy Weekly

    Oct 18, 2021Imad K. Harb Isabella Absi

    The House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa on October 15 held a briefing on “Tunisia: Examining…