Although there is some buzz in Tampa Bay about which Republican might be running against her next year, Tampa area Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor is busy working at her job this August, and that includes a trip to Israel that she participated in last week with a delegation of 26 US Democratic congressmen. The tour of Israel and the Palestinian Authority was sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Castor met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres last Wednesday, and then traveled to Ramallah on Thursday to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.