After whining about election meddling since even before Trump was elected, Chuck decided it was a good thing to demonize the guy who is prosecuting a war against terrorists who attacked, raped, tortured, and murdered civilians, including women and babies
Chuck Schumer calls for new elections in Israel, criticizing Netanyahu’s leadership
In the most significant criticism by a U.S. leader against the Israeli government since its war with Hamas began, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for new elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S. ever, said in remarks on the Senate floor that “the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7.”
“The world has changed — radically — since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said in what was billed as a major address.
Netanyahu has “lost his way,” Schumer continued, “by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel” and by indicating he isn’t interested in the formation of an independent Palestinian state, which has been a U.S. goal for decades. Schumer said Netanyahu has aligned himself with “far-right extremists” like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who he said are “pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”
“Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal notes
The Israel-Hamas war is melting brains on the Democratic side of the aisle, and the latest evidence is a remarkable speech Thursday by Sen. Charles Schumer calling for new elections to replace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yes, the Majority Leader is telling Israelis to replace their government—or the U.S. “will have no choice” but to intervene to “change the present course,” whatever that means.
Mr. Netanyahu is the duly elected Prime Minister of an American ally. Israeli voters will have a chance to hold him accountable, if they choose, for whatever policy and security lapses left his country vulnerable to Hamas’s vicious invasion on Oct. 7. He also will have to answer for how effectively he has prosecuted the war, including whether he has struck the right bargains in exchanging temporary cease-fires for the release of Israeli hostages, and whether the ultimate end-state for Gaza leaves Israel safer or otherwise.
But precisely because Israel is a democracy, accountability for Mr. Netanyahu is baked in. The Prime Minister at this moment represents a broad consensus in Israeli society that the country can’t afford to allow Hamas to continue its violent and corrupt control of Gaza after the horrors unleashed on Oct. 7.
Chuck was essentially appeasing his hardcore, Jew hating, Islamic extremism loving, base, despite being a Jew himself. If Netanyahu is booted, does Chuck think he’s going to be replaced with someone who goes soft? When the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor we joined the war in Europe, then the war in the Pacific. We bombed Germany, Italy, and Japan with reckless abandon. We dropped two nukes on Japan. That’s war. And the demolition of Hamas and all the Palestinians who support them has been a long time coming. Don’t want none, don’t start none. But, the Democratic Party has long been a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment which has morphed in Jew hatred.
All Schumer was doing was giving aid to the murderous Islamic extremists.
McConnell quite rightly hits Schumer’s Israel comments — hard: pic.twitter.com/ig7Po4OuVQ
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 14, 2024
I never thought I’d live long enough to see the one party loaded with Jews become Anti-Semitic and anti Israel. The Democrat communists have finally out leftist themselves. Democrats Have gone so far to the left that they’re making communists look like Republicans.
They’ve always been like Elwood and hated Christians and Jews but they’re never anti Jew. They’ve been anti Christian as long as I’ve been alive but never anti Jew. That might be part of the reason that elwood’s always complaining and moaning about evangelical Christians. Goes evangelicals are notably pro Jew and pro Israel.
It just goes to show you whatever Elwood is for be against he is the most immoral person they have ever run across. I’ve met criminals with more morality than Elwood has and more compassion. The man is a fireball of hate and vitriol. Kudos to teach for even allowing an animal like Elwood to post comments here. It is true validation of teachers dedication to free speech. I guarantee you the reverse would never be tolerated.
Brandon,
Another strong, thoughtful argument for your positions! I’ll give your criticism all the attention it deserves.
An aside – criticism of Israeli policies is not necessarily anti-Jewish.
The problem with many conservative evangelical Christians is their tendency toward authoritarianism. They are driven by an ideology, not unlike Islamists, that requires the state to support their religion.
Conservatives love Israel but hate individual Jews.
Our good friend from St Louis wrote:
You’d think so, but that has rarely happened in practice.
The Distinguished Gentleman from New York, though ethnically Jewish himself, is a lot like many other American Jews: as long as the existence of Israel itself is not threatened, they pretty much go along with urban liberal politics.
So, what is the vision in the liberal mind? Yeah, some of them — excluding the hard left, who seem to think that Hamas’ October 7th attack was justifiable resistance — see the Hamas attacks as wrong, and may even believe that Hamas needs to be eliminated, but are appalled at what eliminating Hamas actually means: a war in Gaza in which Gazan civilians are going to get killed.
We weren’t really worried about Japanese and German and Italian civilians getting killed in World War II, and many of those civilians died, but it also happens to be the last war we actually won.
Polls show that a majority of Israelis support the Israeli prosecution of the war against Hamas.
The same polls show that few Israelis (15%) support Mr Netanyahu as PM after the war.
Majority leader Schumer is Jewish.
Proportionality? Germany, Italy and Japan attempted to take over the world and murdered millions of civilians and troops in Germany, Poland, Russia and China. Hamas murdered 1200 lightly protected Israelis.
Israel has every right to defend themselves and rout Hamas, but Netanyahu’s scorched Earth policy against the Gazans is horrifying to decent people. Starving 10s of thousands children and women just because they’re Muslim? That’s unAmerican. The US built Israel’s war machine, so yes, we have a say.
So Rimjob could you post your nonsense one more time in case we didn’t get it the first time.
Signed,
— Conservatives who love Israel but hate individual Jews.
The sage from St Louis wrote:
And the Japanese killed 2,403 Americans in the attack on Pearl Harbor, yet we declared war on Japan, a war that reduced most Japanese cities to smoldering ash heaps, and left somewhere between 2,600,000 and 3,100,000 Japanese dead.
War is not about ‘proportionality; war is about victory! The “solution” to Hamas killing 1,200+ Israelis is not killing a given number of Palestinians, but about defeating and destroying Hamas.
Those Muslim civilians cheered after September 11th, and October 7th. Those Muslim civilians supported Hamas, not just in the long-ago elections, but in everything Hamas, like any other guerrilla force, needs, as far as food, clothing, water, shelter, transportation, and the other necessities of life are concerned.
We deliberately targeted Germany’s and Japan’s homefront, because we knew that the civilian who grows food for the soldiers in the field, the workers who make munitions, uniforms, boots, refine oil for the machinery, produce cookware, and all of the rest are part of the war machinery. And the Gaza civilians are part of Hamas’ war machinery.
Most of those Muslim civilians were either not born or were children in 2001. Those Muslim civilians supported Hamas the way German civilians supported the Nazis – at the tip of a bayonet. Heil Hitler or we gut your kids!!
While Israel’s slaughter and starvation of Muslim children and women might satisfy Netanyahu’s bloodlust and aid his political machinations, it makes the nation of Israel more vulnerable in the long run.
Years ago a friend commented that America’s unwavering support of Israel was religious in nature, as Judaism fathered Christianity. Is that why conservatives unquestionably support Israel but have no use for American, European, Hollywood and media Jews?
Do you agree, America First, no more aid to Israel?
Glad that Rimjob finally admits that Hamas and the um, civilians that support them are fucking Nazis.
Who gives a shit about that?
That might be the first intelligent and reflective thing you’ve said around here.
….aaaaaand, we’re back into idiocy here. If we weren’t talking about a people who dance in the streets and who cheered Hamas attackers for bringing home trophies, I might care. But as we’re talking a barbaric culture that will cause trouble to civilized peoples as long as they continue to exist in their current form, I’m over it.
Not our circus, not our monkeys. I would prefer we simply stand aside and let the Israelis continue to do what they believe they must.
The United States supplies Israel with some 10% of our global military aid. And we have for years. Why? Is it in the United States’ strategic security interests? How so? Israel was not able to keep Iran, Iraq and Syria in check. They couldn’t even protect their citizens from militants on bicycles and paragliders!
Maybe we should ask Israel to pay us back with interest. Then they can annihilate the Gazan children and women without our assistance.
At least military aid to Ukraine might slow Putin’s aggressions in Europe.
Polls show that a majority of Israelis support the Israeli prosecution of the war against Hamas.
The same polls show that few Israelis (15%) support Mr Netanyahu as PM after the war. The reasons are complex but include his overall treatment of Palestinians and his failure to protect the citizenry.
Majority leader Schumer is Jewish.
Proportionality? Germany, Italy and Japan attempted to take over the world and murdered millions of civilians and troops in Germany, Poland, Russia and China. Hamas murdered 1200 lightly protected Israelis.
Israel has every right to defend themselves and rout Hamas, but Netanyahu’s scorched Earth policy against the Gazans is horrifying to decent people. Starving 10s of thousands children and women just because they’re Muslim? That’s unAmerican. The US built Israel’s war machine, so yes, we have a say.
Thanks Rimjob.
Signed,
— Conservative Evangelical Christians Who Tend Toward Authoritarianism
Typical Democratic party/deep state point of view. They actually believe they get to control the whole planet no matter what the other people on the planet may want. Such hubris. It is truly boundless.
It is no secret that the Democratic party prefers Likud to run Israel. It is new terrain for American politicians to declare openly their contempt for a democratically elected leader of an allied country and demand his overthrow. They should just charge him with crimes… oh, they tried that. They should declare him an insurrectionist and unfit to run for re-election.
Those who live in Israel need to figure this out for themselves. All of the consequences fall on them. All of the outcomes are their s to endure. Americans don’t get a vote in this, even if they are a highly placed elected official in the Democratic party. Israel has shown itself perfectly capable of forming coalition governments to solve their own problems. They even have a way to remove Netanyahu if they wanted to.
In other news, Russian elections are currently going on. Putin is expected to win again by a large margin.
Of course prudent will win when you’re successful at fighting a war you tend to be a hero in your homeland. Fortunately for Putin Zelenskyyy will always be a dancing nazi fag in his own land.
Estimates are that the Ukrainian oligarchs have amassed over $25 billion in offshore accounts. Wonder where that money came from?
The dictator in the White House I’m currently trying to stop his opponent from being on the ballot and stop his opponents people from being able to vote legitimately while stuffing ballot boxes for his own supporters still supports the Zelenskyyy crime family.
I predict the fall of the Ukrainian government by November 24. Right about the same time the American people throw the old child rapists out of the White House. Maybe we can replace the 1200 criminals and perverts in government with normal people.
Brandon loves him some Putin! Is it because he is “man” enough to have his opponents murdered? Mr Trump admires Vlad for his “strength” to invade a neighbor that just needs invading. Putin and his band of Republican cowards and pussies want Ukraine to surrender.
So President Zelenskyy is a “dancing Nazi fag”? And here your leader robot dances, is more Nazi than American and wears make-up, has a pompadour hairdo, gets manicures and can’t drive a car, filet a fish or skin a squirrel. What a pussy, your Fat Donnie is.
BTW, have you seen Mrs Zelenskyy? She makes the Mrs Trump look like the stupid cheap, stripper she was. LOL.
Schmuck
If Prime Minister Netanyahu leaves office, I would hope that he’d be replaced by Itamar Ben-Gvir!
Israelis are deeply divided on Bibi and the war. However ALL will be affected by it for a very long time.
This is similar to our own War on Terror. There seems to have been a lot of second thoughts about that in our own country, our country was quite divided on that 20year fiasco.
7500 killed and 35000 wounded (including 1500 uro/genital wounds and you know what that means) ending with the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan and Iraq now best friends with Iran.