[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18002-18003]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HOSTING PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU

  Mr. REID. Madam President, later today the Republican leader and I 
will host Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, as we have done on many 
other occasions. It is always a pleasure to meet with Prime Minister 
Netanyahu and reaffirm America's longstanding commitment to the 
security of Israel. Israel knows it has an ally in the United States--
in fact, no greater ally in the world than our great country.
  While some Republicans in Congress are trying to drive a false 
narrative of

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acrimony between the United States and Israel, I choose to see the full 
picture, and the full picture is one of strengthened cooperation and 
shared interests.
  Israel has always and will always depend on the United States to be 
by its side. That is why the United States and Israel are negotiating 
right now a new 10-year memorandum of understanding on security 
assistance. Much of yesterday's meeting between the President of the 
United States and the Prime Minister of Israel centered on the 
continued assistance we would provide Israel. Israel's interests have 
always been protected by the United States in matters that come before 
the United Nations, as Israel has always protected the interests of the 
United States before the United Nations.
  In recent years we have seen how resolutions before the United 
Nations General Assembly and the U.N. Human Rights Council have 
unfairly targeted the people of Israel. The administration has 
denounced such efforts, but we also stand against Palestinian attempts 
to use the United Nations to go around a negotiated peace process. 
Wherever, whenever, and however, the United States will always stand by 
Israel.

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