‘Totally Inappropriate’: Netanyahu Slams Schumer for Demanding New Israeli Elections as War With Hamas Rages
Netanyahu to Schumer: “It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shot back at Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer for calling for his ouster and new elections in Israel amid ongoing military operation against the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected Senate majority leader Schumer’s criticism of his war-time leadership in a series of interviews in U.S. media outlets on Sunday. “I think what he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there,” prime minister told the CNN.
Senator Schumer enjoys full support for his remarks from the White House. President Joe Biden on Friday publicly backed Schumer’s ‘good’ call for fresh Israeli elections.
In Fox & Friends interview, Netanyahu heaps praise on Trump for his support:
“Let me say that I appreciate President Trump's tremendous support for Israel when he was president…” pic.twitter.com/D7J58XBM3G
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) March 17, 2024
Prime Minister Netanyahu made similar remarks during an interview on the Fox & Friends, The Times of Israel reported:
In an interview on the “Fox & Friends” morning show, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that US Senator Chuck Schumer’s calls for the Israeli premier to be replaced “are wholly inappropriate,” repeating a sentiment he expressed minutes before on CNN.
“It shouldn’t have been said, it’s wrong,” he says.
He also emphasizes that the Israeli people will decide when elections in Israel are held, and it won’t be “foisted on us.”
“It’s wrong to try to replace the elected leaders of a sister democracy, a staunch American ally, at any time, but especially during a time of war,” says Netanyahu.
Watch Prime Minister @netanyahu’s interview on @cnn this morning pic.twitter.com/G3NAuR3Y42
— Avi Hyman (@AviHyman) March 17, 2024
Prime Minister Netanyahu was determined to defy the Biden White by ordering the capture the last remaining Hamas stronghold of Rafah.
Netanyahu vowed to withstand the U.S. and Western pressure “to stop the war before all its goals are achieved.” The falls of Hamas’s bastion of Rafah is key for attaining the twin Israeli war aims of freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas in Gaza.
Those calling for new elections were inadvertently siding with Hamas. “They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war. And they do this because they know that elections now will stop the war and paralyze the country for at least six months,” the Israeli leader said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
“We will operate in Rafah. It will take a few weeks, but it will happen,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the government meeting on Sunday.
“Some in the international community are trying to stop the war before all its goals are achieved. They do this by making false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government, and against the Prime Minister of Israel,” Netanyahu added.
“They do this by trying to bring about elections now, in the midst of the war. And they do this because they know that elections now will stop the war and paralyze the country for at least six months.” (…)
“So let’s be clear,” the prime minister said, “if we stop the war now before all of its goals are achieved, it means that Israel has lost the war, and we will not allow that. That is why we must not give in to these pressures, and we will not give in to them.”
Rebuke from top Democrats boosting Netanyahu’s popularity
Scathing attacks from President Biden and leading Democrats is having an inverse impact on Israeli public opinion, boosting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s popularity.
Prominent Israeli journalist Benjamin Weinthal noted in Fox News on Sunday:
Having seen his lowest levels of support in months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity has gotten a bounce in the polls, which some say is partly due to the Biden administration and Democrats’ growing criticism against the Jewish state. (…)
Israel’s Channel 14 published a survey Wednesday, a day before Schumer’s broadside against the Jewish state, noting the chance Netanyahu’s conservative bloc could garner an additional six seats in the parliament after Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar ended his partnership with Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party. (…)
Polling shows Netanyahu would secure 56 seats in the Israeli Knesset to form a new government. A bloc of parties needs 62 mandates.
Mideast expert Caroline Glick told Fox News Digital this dynamic is playing out.
“Schumer spoke about Netanyahu, but Netanyahu is simply acting in accordance with the demands of the public. As a result, calls from Schumer and the White House for Netanyahu’s ouster only strengthen him politically,” Glick said.
Regardless of my opinion of Netanyahu and his fitness to serve, Senator Schumer’s call for new Israeli elections is deeply disrespectful of our democracy and sovereignty. Israel is an ally, not a vassal state. Along with the U.S., we’re one of the few countries never to have…
— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) March 14, 2024
Report: Biden admin ‘slowing down’ U.S. weapons delivery
As Israel’s war with Hamas reaches a crucial phase, the Biden administration may be slowing down the delivery of U.S. weapons to the country, Israeli media reports indicate.
While U.S. official deny the claim, preview news reports suggest that the White House was considering slowing down ‘some weaponry deliveries’ in order to ‘pressure Netanyahu’ into calling off the impending operation against Hamas in Rafah. “U.S. officials are considering pausing or slowing some arms shipments to Israel to convince the government to heed U.S. calls to scale back its military assault in Gaza,” the NBC News reported January 28.
The Times of Israel reported:
The United States has slowed the pace of its military aid to Israel compared to the beginning of the war, according to a report quoting an Israeli official Friday that American officials denied.
As ties between the Biden administration and Israel become increasingly strained over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the unnamed senior Israeli official told ABC News that supply shipments “were coming very fast” when the war erupted after Hamas’s October 7 attack, but “we are now finding that it’s very slow.”
The official said Israel was running out of 155 mm artillery shells and 120 mm tank shells. The official also said that it required sensitive guidance equipment, without elaborating.
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Too bad Netanyahu has to practice diplomacy. Schumer deserves scorn. He is a sleazy demagosue, an opportunist that cannot be trusted.
Netanyahu will be voted out AFTER the war ends because of how it started, but is there a better wartime leader for Israel.
I think new gaza elections are a better solution, but I’m not a forever warpig like JoeBama world.
Down votes??
Gaza elections would be a waste of time, and not only because there’s no such legal entity as “Gaza”. The fact is that there’s a good chance Hamas would win, but even if it didn’t, that only means Fatah would win, and there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between them.
Thank you. I understand the ramifications of that reality. My comment was more flippant than literal in order to highlight the warpig’s ghoulish pandering for muslim votes here at home in exchange for further bloodshed abroad.
Check what Chuck You said in 2016 compared to what he says in 2024.
The United States is the country that needs a regime change not Israel
Giving the terrorist a state is like giving Andy Dufresne a $500 check
they will only redouble their horrific behavior
Huh? I don’t get it. The only hit I get for “Andy Dufresne” is the character in Shawshank Redemption, who is innocent, so why would you not give him a $500 check?
Chuck is born and bred NYC
just another piece of scum from gotham
American Jewish voters are you paying attention?
Those who might have some connection to the Jewish People might, but JINOs whose only connection is an accident of birth will be totally deaf.
Obama’s catspaw.
Dictator and terrorist, the vile Abbas, has been ensconced in office for twenty years, after his installation — why aren’t the evil and stupid Dhimmi-crats calling for new elections in the West Bank?
The West bank deserves the same treatment, it is full of terrorists.
Put on your thinking cap and answer which of the following is true:
1. Russian interference in another country’s election?
2. US interference in another country’s election?
How about US intelligence interference in US elections?
Strange how many of the folks who claimed ‘foreign gov’t election interference’ in US elections are so eager to put their thumb on the scale in elections in other Nations or even back direct regime change/color revolutions.
Putting the thumb on the scales of elecitons in oher nations is nothing new atall. We’ve done in, during MY lifetime that I can easily recall on the fly just now, in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, , Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador,, Bolivia, Chile, Haiti, Philippines, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Ukraine, Germany….. so it would be “normal” to do that, thus OK, right?
Chucky , Biden are all pigs, selling us and Israel out to the f-king Muslims
What a DICK Ms Dana is
And she eats with that mouth
Evil
Don’t you o own obi wanted to reach through that screen and bytch slap that bytch
Sorry she is
I certainly wanted to
If the US limits weapons shipments, might Israel have to use bigger and more permanent ones, which have not been used to date? They. Must. Finish. The. Job.
It’d be really nice if Chuck would shut up. He is in the same boat as Biden for impeachment.
No, he isn’t. Senators can’t be impeached. The concept doesn’t apply.
I should’ve said “recalled”…. But then again, it’d be the same as impeached.
Senators can’t be recalled either.
The ranking Jewish senator betrays the Jewish homeland to Hamas SS Nazi’s for a few votes in Michigan.
He didn’t need to do it.
Just send The Squad to quell the revolt. Payola and threats and DC staff and department assignments.
But Schumer chose not to do that.
Just saw this on twitter:
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin
“Democratic political strategist James Carville, says that if Biden loses the election, it will be the fault of the Jews — that Biden needs to stop supporting Israel in order to get the Muslim vote in Michigan.”
What blatant and evil political opportunism and lust for power.
Must be trying outdo Soros as an israel hater and Muslim hate funder…except he is using our money.
Schumer doesn’t hate Israel. All things being equal he likes Israel. It’s just not as important to him as winning votes; if winning votes requires throwing Israel under the bus he will do so.
Perhaps being pro Israel or pro Hamas will become key issues in elections in both Israel and the US.
One could hardly make a more striking contrast than the Hamas faction that wants to annihilate Israel, Hamas rules Gaza like a mafia kingdom, and committed some of the worst atrocities recorded in modern times on Oct. 7.
Israel is trying to preserve a Jewish homeland and a desperately needed refuge for Jews. The need is highlighted daily by the huge pro Hamas mobs harassing Jews and Israel supporters throughout the world.
In reading history I often thought how terrible it was that the UK and US would not take Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi horror. Sadly, I don’t think it would be much different today at least under the current regimes.
Charles Schumer, once a POS, forever a POS.
Did I miss us declaring war on Israel, for, you know, regime change.
The USA has a history of overthrowing foreign governments.
Will Mr. 10% place a contract out on Netanyahu’s life?
Does Schumer really think that after the October attack by sub-human savages the Israeli electorate is going to move to the left? He may wish Bibi was still around after he next election.
I sincerely hope so.
I have been against Netanyahu since the beginning of his first term in 1996, when he showed himself to be spineless by giving Hevron away in the full knowledge that it was going to cost lives. I believe baby Shalhevet Pass’s blood is on his head.
I hope the post-war election will produce a government that is more committed to securing Israel’s citizens’ lives and cares less about world opinion, including American opinion.
Chuck Schumer demands Israeli elections to hopefully replace Netanyahu. He can “demand” all he wants; he has zero power or influence to make it happen.
Turnabout being fair play, Netanyahu should troll Schumer by demanding new elections in New York to hopefully replace him, just to show that the two demands carry about the same weight. (i.e.: None.)
Ol’ Chucky is just talking out his @$$ again; you can tell because his lips are moving.
so what has Up Chuckie Shoe Mer been smoking to give him the delusion that HE, HIMSELF, can call for elections in a foreign nation?
AND he did it graciuously when he could, perhaps even SHOULD, have blasted the clown.