More than 60 Congressmen are supporting a non-binding resolution that would demand that the Iraqi government recognize Israel or lose billions of dollars in American aid. Neither the Bush administration nor the Israeli government has raised the issue.
Florida Democratic Congresswoman Alcee Hastings thought about introducing the resolution after a recent flight of Congressman visiting Israel was not allowed to fly to Baghdad from Israel. "As we got on the C-130 taking us back, we were advised we’d need to land in Amman, Jordan, touch down and then take off again to Israel,” she told the New York Jewish Forward. "This offended me deeply," she added.