The No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate spoke out Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Washington invite and in favor of the Obama administration’s foreign policy in the middle east.

“I don’t think this political grandstanding by the speaker and Mr. Netanyahu are in the best interests of Israel,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” The invitation to Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, was made by House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican.

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