Top congressmen introduced a bill backing Israel’s West Bank security barrier. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla), who heads the Middle East subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, and Gary Ackerman (D-NY), the subcommittee’s ranking Democrat, joined Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the committee’s top Democrat, in introducing the bill last week.
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