Chuck Schumer on His Campaign to Oust Israel’s Leader

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The Daily

2024-03-22

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In a pointed speech from the Senate floor this month, the majority leader, Chuck Schumer, called for Israel to hold a new election and for voters to oust the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Soon after, Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for the Times, sat down with Mr. Schumer to understand why he did it.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Michael barbaro.

  • This is the daily today, in a speech without precedent, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Israelis to hold an election and vote out their current leader.

  • Soon after, my colleague Annie Carney sat down with Schumer to understand why he did it.

  • Its Friday, March 22.

  • Annie this story begins with a speech, so let's start there.

  • Tell us about this speech.

  • I rise to speak today about what I believe can and should be the path forward to secure mutual peace and lasting prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians.

  • So last Thursday, without much warning, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, took to the Senate floor and started delivering what ended up being a really personal, really meaty speech about his jewish identity and about Israel.

  • I speak for myself, but I also speak for so many mainstream jewish Americans, a silent majority whose nuanced views on the matter have never been well represented in this country's discussions about the war in Gaza.

  • So he starts by describing himself and giving a sense of why he sees himself as a guardian of the people of Israel.

  • Of course, my first responsibility is to America and to New York.

  • But as the first jewish majority leader of the United States Senate and the highest ranking Jewish elected official in America ever, I also feel very keenly my responsibility as a shomeir Yisrael, a guardian of the people of Israel.

  • But he quickly turns to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and describes some of the suffering and displacement there.

  • Entire families wiped out, whole neighborhoods reduced to rubble, mass displacement, children suffering.