Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”
In recent days, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the country and a strong Israel supporter, called on Israel to hold a new election, saying Netanyahu had “lost his way.” President Joe Biden expressed support for Schumer’s “good speech,” and earlier accused Netanyahu of hurting Israel because of the huge civilian death toll in Gaza.
Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”
I still remember Netanyahu removed about Obama in front of the US Congress. He’ll call anyone on their bullshit but doesn’t like it when he’s called on his.
Would be great if Biden returned the favor
Best we can do is a bear hug.
describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”
You know what’s wholly inappropriate? Genocide.
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ok they’re trying to kill every arab in their country and steal their homes.
I suppose it’s more of an ethnic cleansing? is that better?
“I mean they are only letting the Irish starve while selling potatoes to the rest of the world. Nobody is trying to wipe out all Westerners here.”
Palestine is a distinct people and culture, attempting to destroy a national group is genocide.
which hamas is soley responsible for
Say it if it makes you feel better, but it doesn’t make it true👎
Nah.
Maybe learn what a genocide is first before commenting.
Oh look… a kapo.
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“We’re not a banana republic,”
If that is the case then they should refuse US foreign aid.
That was surprising to read. What a racist statement.
I simply quoted what he stated. If it wasn’t for US financial aid Israel probably couldn’t exist as a country so they are not going to stop accepting aid. Hamas couldn’t have reasonably expected to win, so they must have had a different goal, most likely to turn the world against Israel and Netanyahu has pretty much stomped right through that door and has no issue pushing forward. If that was their goal they appear to be succeeding.
I simply quoted what he stated.
Yes, I know. That’s what I was referring to.
We only read the comments!
Why would you expect anything else from Bibi and the LIKUD?
I guess it was just him commenting on the western hemisphere that surprised me.
“You can’t force an election on us, what do we look like to you, a bunch of Latinos?!”
You’re right though, no surprise there. Rascists gonna racist.
“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”
The US people then should choose who they will fund and back
The fact that both sides casually talk about their governments like their systems and influences are interconnected shows how they are not exactly run by a democratic process but by who funds who when, where, how and why.
Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
Does anyone other than fascists think anything about the response to 9/11 was good?
I remember seeing people getting swept up in the transient sense of belonging and power that came with all the xenophobia and nationalism that followed. There are probably many who pine for that feeling, and fail to recognize its part in our undoing.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I remember feeling that to a degree myself (and I’m not even American), though I also remember thinking the “freedom fries” shit was dumb. But the fervor was still popular enough that Bush got his second term.
But I’ve been under the impression that it has since faded.
I think the word is “metastasized”
“metastisized fries” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I hated the whole damn reaction from the beginning, and young me became quickly jaded about the world watching the brainwash in America happen so fast. Our governments, especially the American government, don’t seem to operate in the best interests of their people. In America, we don’t care about our own, why would we ever care about others?
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The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections
Well, that is not really how it works, is it? They either have elections after 4 years OR they can be called early (and often are) by the President or a majority of parliament member. They had elections in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Furthermore the US doesn’t have such a system, so it is silly to draw a comparison.
Yeah, but the banana republic comment isn’t about when elections can be held. He’s basically saying that the US can’t tell Israel when to have elections, that’s for Israelis to decide.
I just meant that it isn’t a vote to call for elections, so it felt like he was implying some democratic system in place. Plus external pressure can be leveraged to effect in their system.
Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.
same will be if we let palestine be a country
Classic zionist supporter excusing genocide :)
Palestine already was a country long before Israel invaded its borders.
The region of Palestine has never been a country. Palestinians have always been under the rule.of another. Don’t do the Zionists’ work for them by being ignorant.
At one point there were three Palestines.
Fun Related Fact: The very word Palestine is derived from Philisitine, the tribes who made up the kingdom of Philistia.
A diocese is not an independent state. It’s a province of Rome. Again, there never was a Palestine. Fucking hell this is why Zionists can call the other side ignorant.
The people of Palestine have been ruled over and abused by empire after empire from Alexander the Great.
What about the Nabeteans? The Nabeteans absorbed the Qederites and the Edomites (who made up Palestine south of Beersheba). They ruled till the Romans absorbed their kingdom late 1st century.
Edit: Also, it seems that the Nabatean royal family and the Idumean royal families seem to be related more than just the marriage of Harold Antipas.
Also, comtemparies of Jesus like Strabo thought the Idumeans were Nabeteans (the confusion makes sense when you reliaze all of the Canaanite Kingdoms (except Israel/Samaria) were absorbed by the Arabs by 400 BC.
My point is I consider Kingdom of Nabeteans to be mostly consisting of people who’s kingdoms already existed in the region of Palestine (the extremely similar Qederites along with the Edomites and Judahites). But I admit this can be a stretch since no one knows xactly where the Nabeteans came from.
I also have to find the article mentioning the Nabeteans absorbing the Edomites as too many sources suggest EVERY last Edomite moved to the area around Beersheba.
So that’s bad, right?
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Fuck him and fuck Israel.
Schumer (re: Israel) “losing their way” Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) “hurting Israel”
You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your “criticism” looks like when someone’s got you by the balls.
The alternative is for them to become a Democratic version of Trump. There’s a reason why politicians are careful with their words under most circumstances.
Who cares what Netanyahu thinks about whether Netanyahu should be removed from power? “Netanyahu opposes being removed from power” isn’t exactly a revelation. Tell me what other key Israeli politicians and the Israeli public think.
It is kind of a weird move though. Seen that elections in Israel tooday wouldn’t move the needle (at least not in the right direction) wrt their stance on Gaza or any two state solution, it’s a message meant for anywhere but Israel.
Its just meant to signal they strongly dissaprove but with impotence and a personal attack that just makes them lose even more of the sway they actually have in the Israeli government
Bibi, welcome to the other side of US foreign policy!
Oh, you’ve become a liability during election season.
How unfortunate…
For you.
“losing his way”
that’s . . . that’s quite a rhetorical triple axel there, Chuck
Israeli Trump has got to go. If you don’t place value on human life, you have no business running a hot dog stand, much less an entire country.
