Relations between Latin America and Israel are about to get an important boost. For the first time since the founding of the Jewish state in May 1948, its sitting prime minister will visit the region.
By discontinuing the DACA program, which protected close to 800,000 undocumented young people from deportation, President Trump has turned away from the classic American credo that has immeasurably strengthened and defined America: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
An AJC delegation led by Associate Executive Director for Policy Jason Isaacson, accompanied by Asia Pacific Institute Director Shira Loewenberg, concluded a visit to Colombo, following a successful visit to New Delhi earlier this week.
An AJC delegation has concluded a visit to New Delhi celebrating the warm and vigorous relationship between India and the United States, and the increasingly close Israel-India ties, marked most recently by Prime Minister Modi's successful visit to Jerusalem in early July.
The same terrorist methods developed and used by the Palestinians against Israeli civilians for years are now being employed by ISIS against Europeans: car-rammings, stabbings, and suicide bombings in public spaces.