Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the chamber floor Thursday to call for a “new election” in Israel once the Jewish state’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip “starts to wind down,” denouncing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “radical” members of his security cabinet as an “obstacle” to peace — earning rebukes from Republicans and Israeli leaders alike. The extraordinary comments by the Brooklyn Democrat, 73, came in response to festering resentment among progressives and far-left Democrats over the Biden administration’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in the five-month-old war, and fears that it could jeopardize...
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