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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    8 months ago

    As long as there isn’t any leverage, aka, funding, being pulled, its all hot air.

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      8 months ago

      its not like Netanyahu is the only genocidal maniac in Iraeli government, either.

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        8 months ago

        It’s not like he’s been a genocidal maniac for decades and still got elected multiple times already

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      8 months ago

      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.

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          8 months ago

          I’m not cheering at all.

          I find it disgusting, especially some of the rhetoric coming out of Israel, and it’s for that reason that Netanyahu needs to be defeated at the ballot box as soon as possible, And even though Chuck Schumer just said it yesterday and Biden today, I’ve been on here saying it for months. ✅