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The Senate confirmed former treasury secretary Jack Lew as the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel on Tuesday, filling the position with an argumentative partisan who backed President Barack Obama’s anti-Israel policies to the hilt.
Lew’s supporters point to the fact that he is an observant Jew and the highest-ranking official ever to hold the ambassadorial post. But Lew’s record on Israel includes support for the kinds of policies that arguably weakened Israel and helped lead to the current crisis.for his inability to say “yes” to Republicans during budget negotiations, also defended Obama’s attempt to create distance with Israel, and his disastrous, one-sided nuclear deal with Iran.
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