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<p><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #143c59">87 Senators Tell Obama: Stand Behind Israel!</span><br />by Hillel Fendel  <span id="repFullHeadline_ctl00_ltr_content"><br /><br />An overwhelming majority of the United States Senate has signed a letter to President Obama encouraging him to stand strongly behind Israel in the face of "challenges" to its international standing. <br /><br />The letter, written in the midst of a continuing international onslaught against Israel in the wake of the flotilla-Gaza blockade situation, emphasizes that it is in “our national interest to support Israel at a moment when Israel faces multiple threats from Hamas in Gaza, Hizbullah in Lebanon, and the current regime in Iran.” <br /><br />The missive has been signed by 87 senators, and was spearheaded by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). <br /><br />“Israel’s opponents have developed clever diplomatic and tactical ploys to challenge its international standing,” the letter states, including “the effort to isolate Israel at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference [and] the recent effort to breach the naval blockade around Gaza… Israel’s naval blockade, which is legal under international law, allows Israel to keep dangerous goods from entering Gaza by sea.” <br /><br /><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IHH Connections With Hamas<br />
