Lawmakers See Israel in Record Numbers; Visiting Congressmen Speak Out About Security Fence, Terrorism

Forward, September, 2003 by Wohlgelernter, Elli

Wohlgelernter, Elli Forward 09-05-2003 JERUSALEM -- When members of Congress returned to their offices this week and were asked what they did on their summer vacation, a record number had a shared answer: I went to Israel. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, made headlines for a strongly pro-Israel speech he gave to the Knesset at the end of July.

A bipartisan delegation of lawmakers led by Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, went in August as part of a fact-finding trip that also took them to Iraq. A group led by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York included three New York congressmen, Eliot Engel, Gregory Meeks and Anthony Weiner. Two partisan trips were sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, the...

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