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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House Chose Not to Block Schumer's Bombshell Netanyahu Speech
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-chose-not-to-block-schumers-bombshell-netanyahu-speechThe White House did have advance warning of what Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was going to say about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a highly critical speech Thursday, but the administration did not block him from saying it.
In the latest sign of growing discord between Washington, D.C. and Jerusalem, Schumer called for Israel to hold elections to replace Netanyahu, whom he described as one of several major obstacles to achieving lasting peace between Israel and Palestine. His commentswhich provoked immediate condemnation from Netanyahus alliescame just days after the Israeli leader was reportedly left fuming by a U.S. intelligence report that forecasted widespread protests inside Israel calling for his resignation.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Schumer did give our team advance notice of what he was going to say. This wasnt about approval or disapproval or editing in any way, Kirby insisted. But it wasbut he did give us a heads-up that he was going to do it.
President Joe Biden has been at loggerheads with Netanyahu in recent days about a possible invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, a matter the president says he considers a red line. Netanyahu has repeatedly publicly vowed to go ahead with the invasion despite the U.S. warnings.
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White House Chose Not to Block Schumer's Bombshell Netanyahu Speech (Original Post)
Celerity
Mar 15
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OAITW r.2.0
(24,766 posts)1. Good. We need to tell Israel that, if you want to continue Benji's policies, you will do it without
US financial/military support. Think about that as you continues to create war crimes in Gaza.
Deuxcents
(16,452 posts)2. I'm good with this decision. It needed to be addressed and expressed
EarlG
(21,997 posts)3. Kind of a weird atory
Theyre reporting that the White House didnt block Schumer from saying it, which seems self-evident, because if theyd blocked him then he wouldnt have said it.
Maybe its just me but it seems incredibly obvious that the Senate Majority Leader would not make such an unprecedented statement about the leader of Israel without clearing it with the White House first. Its a huge foreign policy shift Schumer, as a formerly ardent defender of Netanyahu, was the right messenger, and this whole thing must have been strategized for weeks.