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The 80-page bill, announced Tuesday, does not go as far as Democrats including President Biden had sought. But if passed, it would be the most significant action to combat gun violence in years.

“Given continued regional volatility, steadfast high-level US leadership and engagement to support peace and stability in Israel and the West Bank remain in the national security interest of the US."

"The issue that we have here is that we don’t have a bill," Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee told Fox News.

Dr. Oz has always expressed strong pro-Israel views and has always been a strong friend of the Jewish community. But his campaign failed to strongly articulate what his policies on Israel would be.

The DEFEND Act aims to "combat Iranian aggression threatening peace" as Iran is "on the one-yard line in their pursuit of a nuclear weapon."

Former US Senator Orrin Hatch used his Mormon faith to style himself as a lifelong friend of Jews and Israel.

“It is time for the Senate, at long last, to confirm this nominee to fight antisemitism around the world," said Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA).

The final step would be a Senate vote, some eight months after President Biden announced his intention to nominate her to the position.

Although her nomination was the first item on the agenda, chairman Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) decided to pull her name at the last minute.

“When you see that people are lined up on buses just to leave a conflict zone, and Putin’s artillery shells those buses, that is just below humanity, below dignity.”