A.G. Gancarski
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.
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said U.S. 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.”
Scott’s comments come after Schumer put pressure on Netanyahu on the Senate floor, as transcribed by a Punchbowl News reporter.
Schumer described Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace” who is pursuing “dangerous and inflammatory policies that test existing U.S. standards for assistance.”
“The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel. … The Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” Schumer said.
The Democratic Leader believes the U.S. should “play a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course.”
The Senate dialogue comes after a President Joe Biden comment before the State of the Union speech last week.
Biden said he wanted to have a “Come to Jesus” meeting with the elected leader of the Jewish state regarding tactics and strategy in the war that has raged for five months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, which happened despite the country’s legendary dedication to national security.
The phrasing allegedly confounded Netanyahu.
“I don’t know. I’m not familiar with the term even though Jesus wasn’t born that far away from here,” he told Fox News interviewers.
11 comments
Dr John Langrod
March 14, 2024 at 11:32 am
Rick Scott shouldn’t meddle and defend corrupt warmonger Netanyahoo ! Both him , Trump and Bibi are corrupt Fascists
It's Complicated
March 14, 2024 at 11:59 am
Wow! Did you even read the article? You are saying it’s OK for Sen. Schumer to meddle in Israel’s politics, and NOT OK for Sen. Scott to call Sen. Schumer out on that meddling?! LOL!
rick whitaker
March 15, 2024 at 2:15 pm
it’s complicated, once again you made a foolish comment. schumer is a jew that represents a state with the largest jewish population outside of israel. you don’t meddle in the politics of a country, when you give them billions of our dollars. the ONLY thing wrong about schumer’s statement was that it didn’t come sooner. 7.2 million jews compared to 6.3 million jews, meddling,, how naive can you get.
Impeach Biden
March 14, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Hamas started this and Israel will finish it.
MH/Duuuval
March 14, 2024 at 2:50 pm
Hamas subverted representative government in Gaza via force and threat of force, after once taking office legally — just the route followed by Hitler in Germany in the early 1930s.
Israel should have known the Hamas attack was coming, but Netanyahu was too busy dodging justice for his acts of financial corruption.
Israel’s unrelenting attacks on civilian areas of Gaza are disproportionate to the injuries and deaths caused by outlaw Hamas fighters and their allies on innocent Israelis, and constitute war crimes.
The US provides an enormous amount of financial aid to Israel, and I see nothing wrong with complaining and cajoling about Netanyahu who seems to want to ethnically cleanse Gaza. (How else will he ENSURE Hamas will never strike again?)
There also would be nothing wrong with withholding military aid to Israel that is used to wage war on Gaza civilians. In fact, not to do so, has made the US a party to war crimes.
What a mess
March 14, 2024 at 4:36 pm
Gancarski shows the absurdities on all sides as usual. Generations of Americans are exhausted from the US writing blank checks on wars of questionable morality for client states who are unaccountable for their actions or those who don’t want it at all. Regardless of the details this is just one more instance where things don’t pass the smell test and calls into question what exactly is America’s ethical stance. Are we still a pretending neoliberal savior state, or have we passed into realpolitik, and if so, don’t seem to know how to do that very well, either. When one country links itself inextricably to another both in theory and practice, you better be darn sure it goes both ways.
MH/Duuuval
March 14, 2024 at 7:53 pm
Biden is on the high wire, criticizing Bibi and yet continuing the military assistance. Bibi is dangerous in the way that Nixon was dangerous: homicidal.
What a mess
March 14, 2024 at 8:09 pm
What’s that saying about the most dangerous man is one with nothing left to lose. I know people must be asking how a country with one of the most powerful intelligence forces in the world didn’t know an attack was eminent. Sounds too familiar. I’m sure it’s messy and complicated but there is a history there. Former PM Ehud Barak wrote an editorial worth reading in foreign affairs, March 01. He’s been running the circuit lately.
Tightrope is a good description for where Biden is now. I think it tail wagging the dog is also apt.
MH/Duuuval
March 14, 2024 at 11:13 pm
Barak Foreign Affairs editorial: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-must-decide-where-its-going-ehud-barak
Barak committed to two-state solution: https://www.pbs.org/video/shattered-dreams-of-peace-the-road-to-oslo-spoc9i/
rick whitaker
March 15, 2024 at 2:17 pm
what a mess, bottom line, all religion bad.
What a mess
March 14, 2024 at 8:31 pm
I should probably add this was not meant to be inflammatory and i believe in Israel’s right to defend itself and its citizens. That is not the question.
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