WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden expressed support Friday for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel, the latest sign that the U.S. relationship with its closest Middle East ally is careening toward fracture over the war in Gaza.
Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, sent tremors through both countries this week when he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and warned that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah” as Palestinian casualties continue to grow.
“He made a good speech,” Biden said in the Oval Office during a meeting with Ireland’s prime minister. “I think he expressed serious concerns shared not only by him but by many Americans.”
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its not like Netanyahu is the only genocidal maniac in Iraeli government, either.
It’s not like he’s been a genocidal maniac for decades and still got elected multiple times already
Not sure where you learned to negotiate, seems like nowhere, but if you pull your own leverage how do you negotiate?
Israel has everything it needs right now to carpet bomb all of Palestine a dozen times over before cutting off US support alters it’s defensive posture in the slightest.