Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Booker, Cory A. (D-New Jersey)
This bill directs the State Department to prioritize the Eastern Mediterranean region (Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel) in U.S. foreign policy, with focus on energy security and defense partnerships. It calls for institutionalizing diplomatic dialogues, resuming the U.S.-Greece-Cyprus-Israel "3+1" format, and studying whether to create bilateral research and technology programs with Eastern Mediterranean countries modeled on existing U.S.-Israel partnerships. The bill also requires annual reports on implementation and energy/defense cooperation efforts.
The bill explicitly ties support for Israel to the Abraham Accords normalization framework and proposes expanding U.S.-Israel research partnerships to other Eastern Mediterranean countries. It signals congressional intent to deepen Israel's integration into regional infrastructure and security architecture while framing this through energy security and China competition rather than traditional Israel aid language.