Schumer’s critique was as stark and stern as any delivered by an American political leader.
In a speech delivered Thursday on the Senate floor, Schumer declared that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremism, especially in his refusal to tone down the bombing of Gaza in the war with Hamas, is turning the Jewish state into a “pariah” nation.
In another little-noted passage, he also called for the ouster of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority, saying that “for there to be any hope of peace in the future, Abbas must step down and be replaced by a new generation of Palestinian leaders who will work towards attaining peace with a Jewish state.”
In Israel, the speech has been the subject of headline news all day. Haaretz predicted that it “will only further cement Netanyahu’s poor standing within the Democratic Party.” Opposition leaderlauded Schumer’s turn as “proof that one by one” the prime minister “is losing Israel’s biggest supporters in the U.S.”, a member of Netanyahu’s emergency war Cabinet but also his most prominent rival if there were elections, called Schumer’s speech “a mistake.
to be held. But it is unclear just how this would happen, since new elections aren’t scheduled until Oct. 2026. The only way for Netanyahu to be ousted before then would be if a handful of Netanyahu’s coalition partners resigned, eliminating his majority in Parliament. All of his partners stand to his right politically, so they would resign only if Netanyahu moved too far for their taste to the left—that is, too far toward accommodation with the Palestinians or his Western critics.
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