Biden on Schumer calling for a new Israeli government: He ‘made a good speech’
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:08 pm
Biden on Schumer calling for a new Israeli government: He ‘made a good speech’
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President Joe Biden on Friday praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s call for Israeli elections and his sharp criticism of that nation’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, delivered a ringing rebuke to Netanyahu from the Senate floor on Thursday, declaring that the prime minister’s management of the war in Gaza showed he had “lost his way.”
Biden, when responding to a reporter’s question, declared that Schumer “made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans.”
Early in the war, Biden pursued a hug-in-public-push-in-private strategy with Israel, hoping that would allow the U.S. to maintain sway with Netanyahu and his far-right government. But Israel continuously rejected the White House’s advice by pursuing an all-out military campaign to root Hamas out of Gaza, one that has led to widespread shortages of food, water, medicine and other supplies in an enclave of 2.2 million people.
Read more here:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/1 ... h-00147339
President Joe Biden on Friday praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s call for Israeli elections and his sharp criticism of that nation’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, delivered a ringing rebuke to Netanyahu from the Senate floor on Thursday, declaring that the prime minister’s management of the war in Gaza showed he had “lost his way.”
Biden, when responding to a reporter’s question, declared that Schumer “made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans.”
Early in the war, Biden pursued a hug-in-public-push-in-private strategy with Israel, hoping that would allow the U.S. to maintain sway with Netanyahu and his far-right government. But Israel continuously rejected the White House’s advice by pursuing an all-out military campaign to root Hamas out of Gaza, one that has led to widespread shortages of food, water, medicine and other supplies in an enclave of 2.2 million people.