Schumer Calls For New Elections In Israel

[Landslide Lyndon]

Netanyahu has managed to turn off all his allies and has become a liability for Israel. The only ones who don't see that are Republicans because Bibi has turned Likud into an extension of their own party.

Of course Schumer's statement again didn't satisfy the ceasefire/pro-Hamas crowd like that idiot mayor from Michigan who wanted more "action" from Biden. Like what moron, orchestrating a Chile-like coup to topple a democratically elected prime-minister?  

[Landslide Lyndon]

This is interference in another country's elections, something that all but DavidB have excoriated here. 

I have come to the conclusion that everyone here (save DavidB) is fine with foreign interference in American elections as long as it helps Biden win. 

Says the guy who thinks Russian interference in American elections is ok because it helps his party.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I don't think this is a way of pandering to pro-Palestinian people. Netanyahu is just bad to work with. He's a bad leader and he's making things worse, which means all our aid to Israel is for nothing. I've said before, if I were president then Israel gets no free money with Netanyahu in charge. I don't know if that's more or less inappropriate than calling for a new election.

Even in the 90s, when Netanyahu still hadn't bear-hugged the Republicans, Bill Clinton and his team considered him an untrustworthy jerk. The guy is an opportunist who will do anything for his political survival, no matter how harmful this might be for his friends and allies.

[Landslide Lyndon]

In my entire life I have never seen a call for Regime Change in a STABLE DEMOCRACY.  How ridiculous is this?  Just imagine if we a GOP Senator made it a condition of Aid to Ukraine that they have new elections where Zelenskyy isn't the candidate.  We've already gone down that route with an elected Ukrainian President, and look where we're at now.  This is breaking new ground, and not in a good way.

Is anybody surprised that fuzzy is parroting Kremlin propaganda when he talks about the Euromaidan?
Not me.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Whatever one thinks about Victor Yanukovych, he was a democratically elected leader.

A good part of this is water over the dam now.  Russia has certainly forfeited its talking points with its current aggression.  But the United States interfered in the internal affairs of Ukraine in this matter.  Even the MSM in America wrote how Obama would have to justify his role as to why he allowed America to help undo a duly elected democratic leader.

If America wishes to re-evaluate its policy toward Israel going forward, that is one thing.  That can be done through diplomatic talks, appropriate backchannels, etc. But Israel is an ally and a democracy.  This irresponsible course of action by Schumer, which was pretty much signed off on by Biden, is off the rails. 

Again, this is a guy who supports the January 6th insurrection.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If the United States is making its aid to an ally in the middle of an existential war conditional on that country ousting its leader, then the United States is not actually an ally to that nation. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case, simply a case of Schumer opining and potentially having the opposite effect of what he wanted.

But make no mistake, Israel absolutely does call the shots on who its leader is. That will likely not be Netanyahu after the next election, unless some people act very stupidly.

No ally has blank check to do whatever they want with America's money, especially if they have publicly made clear their intention to commit war crimes.
Ukraine accepted US aid with conditions, so I don't see why Israel should be an exception.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If there actually WAS an insurrection on January 6th, with no firearms, what words should we use to describe BLM and Antifa's armed takeovers of police precincts in Minneapolis and NYC?  What do we call the violent rioting at the Federal Courthouse in Portland.

This is a false equivalency.

Keep telling yourself that.

Do you earnestly believe that a police station being swarmed is comparable to an attempted takeover of the federal government and overturning of a presidential election? Really?

He is a Trump cultist. Of course he believes that.