Intel: Pelosi seeks to reassure Israel as Democrats debate military aid

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is leading a congressional delegation to Israel this week amid an intraparty debate over conditioning military aid to the close US ally and Democratic efforts to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran.

“And no matter what our party — or wherever we are within our party — the fact that we have the shared values with Israel and that is one reason for our joy in the creation of Israel as a historical miracle, the greatest accomplishment of the [20th] century,” Pelosi said at a working lunch with Knesset members.

Pelosi also singled out Tehran despite holding a vote earlier this month on legislation intended to limit Trump’s ability to strike Iran, which the House passed 224-194 largely along partisan lines.

“It’s not just about Israel having the fight with Iran; that’s a fight for the whole world — that the whole world has with the danger Iran poses,” said Pelosi.