Sen. Chuck Schumer Slams Netanyahu As "Obstacle To Peace"
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for new Israeli elections to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S., called Netanyahu an “obstacle to peace.” Ben Rhodes, co-host of Crooked’s ‘Pod Save The World’ and former deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, explains what Schumer’s comments could signal about Democrats’ shifting attitudes toward Israel over the war in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 15th. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Trayvon Anderson. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Pronka Ara Bindi, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.2 | where, like a SpaceX rocket yesterday, |
| 0:09.6 | we too plan to reach new heights and then get completely lost at sea. |
| 0:14.0 | It's giving Amelia Earhart and I love that for us maybe? |
| 0:18.0 | Yes, never to be heard from again on some island somewhere, |
| 0:22.0 | hopefully having a nice little drink. |
| 0:24.4 | Literally. |
| 0:25.4 | On today's show, Vice President Kamala Harris made history by visiting an abortion |
| 0:35.0 | provider in Minnesota. Plus, we wrap up by talking about the controversy that got so |
| 0:39.9 | many people who don't care about the Royals talking about the Royals the |
| 0:44.6 | altered photo of Kate Middleton. But first yesterday Senate majority leader |
| 0:49.0 | Chuck Schumer called for quote-unquote course corrections by Israel, |
| 0:53.9 | including the need to elect new leadership |
| 0:56.8 | as the country's genocidal acts in Gaza continue. |
| 1:00.1 | Take a listen to a bit of his speech from the Senate floor. |
| 1:03.0 | As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me the Netanyahoo Coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7th. The world has changed radically |
| 1:16.7 | since then and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past. |
| 1:26.0 | Now this declaration is significant for a couple of reasons, |
| 1:31.0 | one of which is that Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish person in the U.S. government, |
| 1:36.8 | and as political put it, his speech signals, quote, that as far as criticizing Israel, the gloves are officially off. |
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