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In a letter sent to the White House last week, leading pro-Israel leaders urged President Trump to support Netanyahu’s determination of Israel’s own sovereignty with respect to the Palestinian-Arabs. According to the Coalition for Jewish Values, which helped organize the letter, the missive “urg[es Trump] to permit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a free hand to extend Israeli sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.”

Passover, the Haggadah, Ilhan Omar and “JExodus” from the Democratic Party — all in barely 5 minutes.

Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, a coalition of 20 pro-Israel organizations sent a joint letter on Tuesday to Trump, asking him to let Israel decide on sovereignty.

“The Republicans are demonstratively supportive of Israel, her security needs and her democratic government,” Rabbi Pesach Lerner, president of the Coalition for Jewish Values wrote. “In the Democratic Party there is, in my opinion, outright anti-Semitism thinly veiled as ‘anti-Israel’ rhetoric, of a kind never seen or accepted in America. Instead of condemning this, today’s Democrats are defending a woman who minimizes terrorism against both Israeli Jews and against America.”

In response to the letter to Trump, 21 pro-Israel organizations sent their own letter to the president thanking him for his “ongoing support for Israel’s self-determination and its right to defend and protect itself” and expressing “distress” over the letter sent by the other Jewish groups. Among the signatories were the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the Coalition for Jewish Values, Americans for a Safe Israel, Endowment for Middle East Truth, and the Republican Jewish Coalition.

Among the groups which did make the cut were… the Coalition for Jewish Values…

Over a dozen conservative organizations ask president to give Netanyahu a ‘free hand to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria’; US publishes Israel map including Golan

Letter to Trump comes in response to one from left-wing groups calling on him not to support Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

“Gathering with Jewish leaders,” an invitation viewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency says. “You are invited to a discussion with key Administration officials on pertinent issues impacting the community.”

A coalition of more than a dozen conservative groups, most of them Jewish, sent a letter to President Donald Trump tacitly asking him to respect a potential Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements.