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Netanyahu Must Thread the Needle in Address to Congress, Observers Say

The Israeli premier must strike just the right tone to bridge the partisan divide with respect to the Jewish State, says Orthodox Union leader Moshe Hauer.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, hopes that the wartime premier will “really speak to the bipartisan consensus around Israel—that he will be able to bring together both sides around the existential struggle Israel is facing right now.”

Hauer told JNS that he hopes that Netanyahu will present a counter-narrative to the one that “has been peddled around and which is gaining far too much traction,” that Israel is the oppressor and the Palestinians the oppressed.

Read full article in JNS