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URGENT UPDATE FOR PRAYER:
Please pray today as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress. There have been very many credible warnings against attempts on his life and other threats regarding anti-Israel protesters and terrorists.
Pray these scriptures:
O Lord, rescue me from evil people. Protect me from those who are violent, those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.
O Lord, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me. The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way. Interlude
Lord, do not let evil people have their way. Do not let their evil schemes succeed, or they will become proud. Interlude
Surely righteous people are praising your name; the godly will live in your presence.
(Psalms 140:1-2, 4-5, 8, 13 NLT)
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu privately in the White House but will not attend his speech to U.S. Congress on Wednesday, an aide to the VP told media on Monday.
Politico reported that Harris had already committed to attending a sorority event in Indianapolis on that day.
This allows her to circumvent a politically fraught decision of whether to join many other Democrats who announced they would boycott Netanyahu’s speech over their criticism of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza. . . .
Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Monday evening. While their planned meeting on Wednesday was cancelled, due to the U.S. President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 diagnosis, officials have said the president expects to meet with Netanyahu on Thursday. . . .
According to her aide, Harris will reiterate her commitment to Israel’s security and right to defend itself, but will also “convey her view that it is time for the war to end in a way where Israel is secure, all hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can enjoy their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.” . . .
“In recent months she has had quite a few problematic statements in the context of the war in Gaza,” Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog, told Ynet News on Tuesday. . . .
Excerpt from All Israel News. Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images.