ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
February 22, 2015

A week from Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint ‎session of Congress. He will find some empty seats as a few dozen Democrats, ‎almost all them either members of the Congressional Black Caucus or the ‎progressive caucus (the most left-wing members of the U.S. House of Representatives), plus a very ‎small number of senators, take the day off. These elected officials will boycott the ‎presentation to express their displeasure with the fact that Netanyahu’s invitation by ‎House Speaker John Boehner was “disrespectful to the president” and violated ‎established protocol. The disrespectful charge came naturally to the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who have formed a blocking and tackling operation to protect the first elected ‎black president from the time of his inauguration. READ MORE