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President of the United States Barack Obama. Photo: Reuters

Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled address to a joint session of Congress on March 3 is starting to look like a watershed moment for Democrats who find themselves facing a choice: side with Netanyahu, or follow the lead of President Barack Obama.

It's an open question whether Democrats will honour a decades-long tradition of bipartisan support for Israel and its leaders, or go with the White House, which has criticised the address as a breach of protocol and a threat to ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Mr Obama has said he has no plans to meet Mr Netanyahu during the Washington visit, and Vice-President Joe Biden announced he would be out of the country during the address - though exactly where he'll be travelling remains unknown.

Dozens of Democrats could follow Mr Biden's lead, with Democrats still steaming over Speaker John Boehner's January invitation to the Israeli leader.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: AP

The White House and other congressional Democrats, most notably Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, have complained the invitation was made without consulting the president. And Democrats have derided the Boehner invite as an overtly political move - one that has driven a wedge between Republicans and Democrats on the staunchly bipartisan issue of supporting Israel.

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The Israel lobby is detecting the damage this address is already causing and trying to control it. On Tuesday, J Street, an Israeli advocacy group based in Washington, sent a letter to every member of Congress asking them to pressure Mr Boehner into delaying the Netanyahu speech until after the March 17 elections.

Most Democrats are expected to attend. And the White House hasn't been calling for a boycott. Even Ms Pelosi told reporters last week that, "as of now," she plans to be there.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer suggested the decision to attend or skip was up to individual members.

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WASHINGTON Democrats on the House committee investigating the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks are demanding that the panel's Republican chairman withdraw a subpoena for Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal emails and schedule a hearing for Clinton to testify immediately.

Democrats said in a letter Friday that the subpoena shows the panel led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., has taken a "very partisan and political turn."

Democrats urged Gowdy to immediately publish Clinton's emails in their entirety to "help clear up any misperceptions." They said the committee should return to investigating the Benghazi attacks instead of being "a surrogate for the Republican National Committee."

Democrats said Gowdy appeared to be targeting Clinton, the former secretary of state and a leading Democratic contender for president in 2016, "for political reasons" rather than to clarify remaining questions about the attacks.

The letter is signed by all five Democrats who serve on the Benghazi panel, including Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee's senior Democrat. The 12-member panel is investigating the September 2012 attacks, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Committee Republicans said Wednesday they had subpoenaed Clinton's personal emails pertinent to its probe. The panel said it also has issued a subpoena to the State Department for all other individuals who have relevant information.

The House panel's announcement about the subpoenas came after it was disclosed that as the nation's top diplomat, Clinton relied on a personal email account rather than one operated by the government.

Gowdy spokesman Jamal Ware said Friday that the committee was moving forward with the subpoena.

Gowdy will not release the emails "because doing so would imply we have all the emails," Ware said. "Because of the use of personal emails and servers, the committee may not know that we have a complete record for some time."

Ware said the State Department did not notify the committee until Feb. 27 that it did not have custody or control of Clinton's emails "because of her exclusive use of personal email for the conduct of official State business. They also failed to inform the committee of her use of a personal server."

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