Schumer Calls for End of Netanyahu-Led Government in Israel – WSJ

WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his way and called for new elections aimed at choosing a new government, a sign of growing U.S. pressure on Israel over the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu is allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel, the New York Democrat said in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday. Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S. government, said Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.

His speech is the latest in a series of high-level warnings and White House moves aimed at pressuring Israel and Netanyahu s government to permit more humanitarian aid into Gaza and to rethink its war plans for Hamas, the U.S.-designated terror group whose bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked the war. The address also marked an unusually direct criticism of the democratically elected leader of a close ally, and sparked sharp pushback from congressional Republicans and from Israel s ambassador to the U.S.

Schumer s call for a new election comes amid growing frustration in the Biden administration with Netanyahu over the civilian death toll in Gaza and his resistance to U.S. postwar plans, including a new push for the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

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I think Israel can no longer consider the US its ally, at least under the current administration. This could change of course.