It is painful that members of the Obama Administration, a number of Congressional Democrats, and left-wing political activists are showing such disrespect for the political leader of an allied country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and disrespect for Israel, by refusing to attend the speech he plans to deliver before the joint session of Congress on March 3, 2015. Netanyahu might well ask, as did the biblical Job, “Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?” Opponents of the speech have manufactured a political crisis by injecting partisanship and division, and inflamed a crucial and controversial issue that deserves serious rational discussion. Those opponents, particularly Senator Patrick Leahy (Dem. Vermont), have disgraced themselves by saying that because the Israeli leader has been invited to address Congress, the Republican Party has been responsible for a “tawdry and high handed stunt that has embarrassed not only Israel but the...(Read Full Article)