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Sen. Chuck Schumer demands ‘new election’ in Israel, calls Netanyahu ‘obstacle’ to peace #shorts
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0:49Now PlayingSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the chamber floor Thursday to call for a “new election” in Israel once the Jewish state’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip “starts to wind down,” denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “radical” members of his security cabinet as an “obstacle” to peace — earning rebukes from Republicans and Israeli leaders alike.
The extraordinary comments by the Brooklyn Democrat, 73, came in response to festering resentment among progressives and far-left Democrats over the Biden administration’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in the five-month-old war, and fears that it could jeopardize the president’s re-election.
In his remarks, amounting to a rare public call for the leader of a foreign ally to be removed from office, Schumer alleged that Netanyahu and security cabinet members Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir had lost the support of Israelis and a new election was “the only way” to secure the Jewish state’s future.
“Of course, the United States cannot dictate the outcome of an election, nor should we try,” he said. “That is for the Israeli public to decide. A public that I believe understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah, opposed by the rest of the world.”
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