美以關係緊張之際，倡議者推動鑄造果爾達·梅厄紀念幣

12 月 18 日，約 150 人聚集在 Cannon House 辦公大樓，討論說服美國政府鑄造果爾達·梅厄紀念幣的持續努力。

A group of around 150 people gathered at the Cannon House Office Building on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to convince the U.S. government to mint a commemorative Golda Meir coin.

週一，約 150 人聚集在 Cannon House 辦公大樓，討論說服美國政府鑄造果爾達·梅厄紀念幣的持續努力。

Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 987, the Prime Minister Golda Meir Commemorative Coin Act, on Feb. 10. The bill, which has drawn another 221 cosponsors, calls on the U.S. Mint to create up to 50,000 gold $5 coins, up to 400,000 silver $1 coins and up to 750,000 half-dollar coins honoring the former Israeli prime minister.

佛羅裡達州民主黨眾議員黛比·沃瑟曼·舒爾茨(Debbie Wasserman Schultz) 和紐約州共和黨眾議員安德魯·加巴里諾(Andrew Garbarino) 於2 月10 日提出了HR 987，即總理戈爾達·梅厄紀念幣法案。以色列前總理。

Surcharges—which would run $35 per gold, $10 per silver and $5 per half-dollar coin—would go to the American Friends of Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital.

每金 35 美元、每銀 10 美元、每半美元硬幣 5 美元的附加費將捐給美國之友基亞特桑茲拉尼亞多醫院。

Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced a companion Senate bill, S.1300, on April 26. To pass, the bill would need two-thirds approval each in the Senate and the House.

參議員本·卡丁（馬裡蘭州民主黨人）、特德·克魯茲（德克薩斯州共和黨人）、塔米·鮑德溫（威斯康星州民主黨人）和史蒂夫·戴恩斯（蒙大拿州共和黨人）於4 月26 日提出了一項配套的參議院法案S.1300。

“We got very close to the 290 co-sponsors that you need to bring it to the floor,” Wasserman Schultz told JNS at the event. “There was not as much energy behind the effort in the Senate, so we’re just going to push the reset button and try again.”

Wasserman Schultz 在活動中告訴 JNS：“我們與 290 名共同發起人非常接近，您需要將其帶到會場。” “參議院沒有那麼多精力支持這一努力，所以我們只是按下重置按鈕，然後再試一次。”

Bobby Rechnitz, a philanthropist with close ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is chairing and funding the coin initiative privately. (Ezra Friedlander, who runs an eponymous consultancy, is helping coordinate the effort.)

與以色列總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡關係密切的慈善家鮑比·雷赫尼茨 (Bobby Rechnitz) 正在私下主持並資助該硬幣計劃。 （埃茲拉·弗里德蘭德（Ezra Friedlander）經營一家同名諮詢公司，正在幫助協調這項工作。）

Another 100 or so signatures are needed to pass the bill, according to Rechnitz. “It actually should have been a very smooth process,” he told JNS. “There’s only one reason that we’re not at the finish line.”

Rechnitz 表示，該法案還需要 100 多個簽名才能通過。 「這實際上應該是一個非常順利的過程，」他告訴 JNS。 “我們沒有到達終點線的原因只有一個。”

“Now the elections are over, and we’re still hitting the same challenges. So we have some disgruntled leaders on the Democratic side who are telling their people not to sign on to this,” Rechnitz said. “I’m very troubled by it, because, again, it’s partisan politics, but I believe a lot of that’s going to evaporate in the next few months.”

「現在選舉已經結束，我們仍然面臨著同樣的挑戰。因此，民主黨方面有一些不滿的領導人告訴他們的人民不要簽署這項協議，」雷赫尼茨說。 “我對此感到非常困擾，因為這又是黨派政治，但我相信其中很多都會在未來幾個月內消失。”

Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), who attended the event and who co-chairs the Abraham Accords Caucus, told JNS that he and others are working hard to build bipartisan relationships.

出席活動、亞伯拉罕協議核心小組聯合主席的眾議員布拉德·施奈德（伊利諾伊州民主黨人）告訴 JNS，他和其他人正在努力建立兩黨關係。

“We had legislation with the Abraham Accords—which is bipartisan, bicameral—along with efforts to integrate air defenses, and we saw how important that was in supporting the attacks from Iran,” he said. He also cited bipartisan efforts to promote technology to identify and destroy terror tunnels in Gaza and Lebanon.

他說：“我們制定了兩黨、兩院制的《亞伯拉罕協議》，並努力整合防空系統，我們看到這對於支持伊朗的襲擊有多重要。”他還列舉了兩黨為推廣識別和摧毀加薩和黎巴嫩恐怖分子隧道的技術所做的努力。

Wasserman Schultz, Schneider and Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) were the three Democrats to address attendees at the event. Four Republicans—Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), as well as Amata Radewagen, a Republican and American Samoa’s delegate to the House—also spoke at the event.

沃瑟曼·舒爾茨(Wasserman Schultz)、施奈德(Schneider) 和眾議員金·施裡爾(Kim Schrier)（華盛頓州民主黨人）是在活動中向與會者發表講話的三名民主黨人。四名共和黨人－眾議員。保羅·戈薩爾（亞利桑那州共和黨）、湯姆·麥克林托克（加利福尼亞州共和黨）和拉爾夫·諾曼（共和黨），以及共和黨和美屬薩摩亞眾議院代表阿瑪塔·拉德瓦根也在會上發表了演說。

Rechnitz told JNS that relations across the aisle are fraying.

雷奇尼茨告訴《JNS》，兩黨關係正在緊張。

“I don’t think it’s withstood the test of time being a bipartisan relationship,” he said. “I’m afraid that there’s been so much divisive action and the fringe element on the left, people like Chuck Schumer getting up and criticizing a sitting prime minister of a democratic ally, the sitting prime minister of Israel.”

「我認為兩黨關係經受住了時間的考驗，」他說。 “我擔心左翼有太多分裂行動和邊緣分子，像查克·舒默這樣的人站起來批評民主盟友的現任總理，以色列現任總理。”

Democratic leaders took a political gamble on anti-Israel sentiment and failed, according to Rechnitz, who is hopeful that “the whole party is going to go in a different direction and not look at their leadership the same way.”

雷赫尼茨表示，民主黨領袖在反以色列情緒上進行了一場政治賭博，但失敗了，他希望「整個政黨將走向不同的方向，而不是以同樣的方式看待他們的領導」。

Norman, the South Carolina Republican, doesn’t share that optimism.

南卡羅來納州共和黨人諾曼並不這麼樂觀。

“They are further than just slipping away,” he told JNS, of Democratic support of the Jewish state.

在談到民主黨對猶太國家的支持時，他告訴《JNS》：“他們不僅僅是在溜走。”

“They’ve led factions against it, and they tried to do it, in my opinion, subversively,” Norman told JNS. “They need to be held accountable on this,” he added, citing the Democrats who skipped Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on July 24.

「他們領導各派反對它，在我看來，他們試圖顛覆性地這樣做，」諾曼告訴《JNS》。 「他們需要對此承擔責任，」他補充道，並引用了7月24日缺席內塔尼亞胡在國會聯席會議上發表講話的民主黨人的話。

Schrier, the Washington Democrat, told JNS at the event that “people have to understand that the vast majority of the Democratic Party stands with Israel.”

華盛頓民主黨人施裡爾在活動中告訴《JNS》，“人們必須明白，民主黨的絕大多數人都支持以色列。”

“People have to understand that the vast majority of the Democratic Party stands with Israel,” she said. “We understand that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and is an ironclad partner

「人們必須明白，絕大多數民主黨人與以色列站在一起，」她說。 「我們了解以色列是中東唯一的民主國家，也是鐵桿夥伴