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The Associated Press reports:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The speech drew a swift reprisal from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who said on the Senate floor immediately after Schumer’s remarks that “Israel deserves an ally that acts like one” and that foreign observers “ought to refrain from weighing in.”
The Democratic Party has an anti-Israel problem, McConnell said. “Either we respect their decisions or we disrespect their democracy,” he said.
Florida Politics reports:
Florida’s junior Senator is standing up for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the Senate Democratic Leader saying it’s time for the veteran Likud leader to leave office as war rages with Hamas.
Sen. Rick Scott said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York “is calling for the U.S. to meddle in the Israeli government to force leadership change. This is coercion. It’s dangerous (and) undemocratic. America must stand strongly with Israel’s elected leadership, not threaten it as it fights terrorism that wants to destroy it.”
McConnell responds to Schumer: “The Jewish state of Israel deserves an ally that acts like one”
He says Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel is “grotesque” and “unprecedented”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 14, 2024
McConnell: “Israel’s unity government and security cabinet deserves the deference befitting a sovereign democratic country.”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 14, 2024
.@SenSchumer is calling for the U.S. to meddle in the Israeli government to force leadership change. This is coercion. It’s dangerous & undemocratic.
America must stand strongly with Israel’s elected leadership, not threaten it as it fights terrorism that wants to destroy it. https://t.co/CaquyOHQJx
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) March 14, 2024