he has to play to them!!! --- typical zionist xian subservient. On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 9:52:12 AM UTC-5, brine wrote: > > Lance's office is in Westfield, there is a huge Jewish community there, of > course he has to play to them!!! But he was better than the piece of shit > Jersey Shore party boy they redistricted me to have!!! > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:47 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> [image: Rep. Leonard Lance, center, and his wife, Heidi Rohrbach, meet >> with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon during Lance’s recent visit to >> Israel.] >> >> Rep. Leonard Lance, center, and his wife, Heidi Rohrbach, meet with >> Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon during Lance’s recent visit to Israel. >> >> >> JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama’s administration is putting too much >> pressure on Israel regarding building in the West Bank and the eastern half >> of Jerusalem, United States Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ Dist. 7) told *New >> Jersey Jewish News* this week on a visit to Jerusalem. >> >> The freshman member of Congress came to Israel with 20 Republican >> colleagues on a week-long tour sponsored by the American Israel Education >> Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization affiliated with the >> American Israel Public Affairs Committee. >> >> The group met with top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin >> Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and >> opposition leader Tzipi Livni. >> >> Lance concluded that this, his first visit to Israel, would help him >> develop his views on foreign policy, which, he said, he would articulate to >> his constituency upon his return to New Jersey. >> >> While Lance was respectful of Obama, he criticized his policy of “tough >> love” for the Jewish state, exemplified by American pressure for a complete >> halt to all construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. He noted >> the State Department’s condemnation, in a meeting last month with New >> Jersey-raised Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, of a >> building project on the site of the former Shepherd Hotel in eastern >> Jerusalem. >> >> “I certainly don’t think the president of the United States should be the >> zoning officer here in Jerusalem,” Lance said in an Aug. 3 interview at >> Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel. “It’s inappropriate, to put it mildly, for >> him to get involved in a building project on a small parcel of land over >> here. I disagree with the president’s statements.” >> >> Asked about an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that resulted in two Arab >> families in eastern Jerusalem being forcibly removed from their homes >> earlier this week, Lance said that the Israeli Supreme Court was extremely >> well-respected and had a reputation of being fair to Arab citizens. >> >> Lance, who told *NJJN* in March that he was somewhat optimistic about >> the chances of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians during >> Obama’s term in office, said he still remained optimistic, despite the >> downturn in relations between Jerusalem and Washington. >> >> “The Israeli people recognize that President Bush was an extremely strong >> supporter of Israel, and I hope Obama will be as well,” Lance said. “I hope >> Obama becomes as strong a supporter of Israel as Bush has been. But the >> president was mistaken regarding east Jerusalem, and I think we have to be >> extremely concerned about his administration’s policies on Iran.” >> ‘Time is of the essence’ >> >> Lance endorsed the views of Netanyahu’s administration that Iran was an >> existential threat to Israel and that allowing it to obtain a nuclear >> capability should not be an option. >> >> Lance noted that he is a cosponsor of the Iran Petroleum Sanctions Act, >> which would significantly expand economic sanctions on Iran. He said the >> recent controversial election in Iran only enhanced the urgency to deal >> with the issue. >> >> “Iran is attempting to build a nuclear weapon and therefore time is of >> the essence,” Lance said. “A nuclear Iran would be destabilizing not only >> to the region, but to the entire world. We need to move to the economic >> approach as quickly as possible.” >> >> Asked about the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran’s >> nuclear facilities if all other approaches failed, he said he supported >> Israel’s June 1981 attack on a nuclear reactor that Saddam Hussein was >> building in Iraq, and that Israel retains the right to take steps to >> maintain its security. >> >> “I take nothing off the table,” the congressman said, using what has >> become an international euphemism for supporting a last-resort Israeli >> attack on Iran. >> >> Lance will visit Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey headquarters in >> Scotch Plains on Tuesday, Aug. 11, to discuss his trip to Israel. He will >> also announce that funding has been approved for an expansion of the NORC >> ageing-in-place program run through the federation and Jewish Family >> Service of Central New Jersey. >> Beauty and spirituality >> >> The Iranian issue was the focal point of his group’s meetings with >> Israeli leaders. Lieberman used his meeting with his visitors from the >> United States to insist publicly on Israel’s maintaining the Golan Heights >> in any prospective peace deal with Syria. >> >> Asked about Israel’s legally embattled and internationally controversial >> foreign minister, Lance said, “He seemed extremely knowledgeable” and that >> his remarks in the half-hour meeting were “general in nature.” >> >> Lance did not meet with Israel’s internal security minister, Yitzhak >> Aharonovitch, who is a close ally of Lieberman’s, nor with any other >> Israeli law enforcement officials, despite speculation in New Jersey that >> he might use his Israel trip to foster cooperation on the investigation >> into the alleged money-laundering scheme that the FBI says operated among >> suspects in Israel, Brooklyn, and Deal, NJ. Five rabbis were among those >> arrested in the corruption probe. >> >> “Guilt is not collective in the United States or here,” said Lance, whose >> district includes parts of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, and Union >> counties. “The trial will determine guilt or innocence. The situation is >> irrelevant to the indispensible relations between the United States and >> Israel and between Israel and New Jersey.” >> >> Asked what New Jersey could learn from Israel, Lance said that as one of >> America’s most diverse states, New Jersey could learn from the birthplace >> of the world’s three great monotheistic religions. He said Jerusalem was >> one of the great cities of the world and called it “breathtaking in beauty >> and in spirituality.” >> >> ------------------------------ >> Courting Congress >> >> Rep. Leonard Lance visited Israel as part of what organizers said was the >> largest delegation of Republican members of Congress ever to visit the >> Jewish state. >> >> The mission was led by Jewish House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of >> Virginia. The GOP legislators were received well in a country where 88 >> percent of Israelis considered former President George W. Bush pro-Israel >> and just 6 percent define Obama that way, according to a recent Smith >> Research poll sponsored by *The Jerusalem Post*. >> >> A larger delegation of some 30 Democratic members of Congress led by >> House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland will visit Israel next week >> under the auspices of the same organization, the AIPAC-affiliated American >> Israel Education Foundation. >> >> — GIL HOFFMAN >> >> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 5:46:55 AM UTC-5, brine wrote: >>> >>> I saw Leonard Lance was on the list ... he was my Congressman until they >>> redistricted my town and I now have an idiot that has never come to my town >>> unless he's fundraising, same with his emails!!! Lance was great, he would >>> send out emails and poll about everything he was voting on and he would >>> also follow up with an email telling you how and why he voted the way he >>> did!!! When I had the chance to do so, i voted for him all the time!!! Now >>> I stuck with an idiot from the Jersey Shore who could care less about my >>> town, which is NOT dow the shore!!! >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Hot4azintop via PoliticalForum < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Why is "effectiveness" judged by laws being passed? I contend that >>>> providing "constituent services" is much more important than mere words on >>>> paper. I wish the standard could be "laws and regulations" removed off of >>>> the books in an attempt to simplify government operations......."less" not >>>> "more" should be the operative standard. >>>> >>>> In a message dated 8/9/2016 8:41:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >>>> [email protected] writes: >>>> >>>> I'm not sure I agree with the criteria used to judge >>>> "effectiveness.....To me, anyone who votes "Nay" for anything even looked >>>> at or brought up by a Democrat is effective to me. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:17 AM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2.5 to 1, in fact. See if yours made the list... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://members-of-congress.insidegov.com/stories/5278/least-effective-members-congress?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=rt.cm.ob.dt.5278#1-Sen-Robert-P-Casey-Jr >>>>> >>>>> I can almost understand the newbies who have only been there 3 years >>>>> and haven't purchased enough influence, but look at how many of these >>>>> have >>>>> been there for YEARS without sponsoring even a single bill that ever made >>>>> it through committee! >>>>> >>>>> You have to wonder about the abject stupidity of a constituency that >>>>> would continue re-electing such failures. :( >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>>>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>>>> >>>>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >>>>> <http://www.politicalforum.com/> >>>>> * It's active and moderated. 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