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Republican leaders on a summer tour of the Holy Land met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week and the Iran deal was front and center in the talks, but according to The New York Times, Netanyahu did not try to push Republicans on which way to vote:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not directly advise visiting Republican members of Congress how to vote on the Iran nuclear deal, the leader of the delegation told reporters on Thursday. The head of a Democratic Congressional group that visited Israel last week had said the same thing to journalists.

“He doesn’t tell us how to vote but he lays out concerns for the future about what the world could look like,” said Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority leader who is spending the week in Israel along with 35 mostly new members.

McCarthy says he doesn’t know of any Republicans that are voting for the deal with Iran and at least some Democrats, though it isn’t know how many, are expected to break ranks. If enough members of Congress vote against the deal it could over ride the veto President Obama has promised to use.

Instead of telling Republican politicians how to vote, The Times says Netanyahu fielded questions from the group:

Mr. McCarthy said that Mr. Netanyahu — the most vocal critic of the deal signed last month between the United States, five other world powers and Iran — fielded questions from the delegation for more than 90 minutes on Wednesday and was the “most concise” and “most succinct” he has ever seen him.

“He listened to everything and it was thoughtful and he answered directly from each question,” Mr. McCarthy said of the Israeli leader.

McCarthy said the Republicans would not whip the vote and force members to reject the deal; it is unclear if the Democrats would force a whipped vote among their members and require them to support the deal. Several Democrats have spoken out against the deal with Iran.