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Outrage at Chuck Schumer’s Speech: The Pro-Israel Right Wants to Eat Its Cake Too

Neoconservatives Only Hate “Interference” in Israel When It Means Anything Other Than Blank-Check Support For Apartheid and Slaughtering Palestinians.

— Murtaza Hussain | March 15, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, departs the Senate Chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Schumer called for Israel to hold new elections, a sharp break with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the highest-ranking Jewish US elected official. Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gave a speech that provoked anger from right-wing supporters of Israel, many who described it as a regime-change effort targeting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The roughly 40-minute speech, delivered by Schumer on the floor of the Senate, attacked Hamas as well as critics of Israel, while vowing that the U.S. would defend and support Israel through any crises it faced. But Schumer also took direct aim at Netanyahu, describing his government as “an obstacle to peace” and saying that his coalition government “no longer fits the needs of Israel.”

Schumer went further in his remarks, calling for elections in Israel to bring a new government to power and saying that Netanyahu had “lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”

Despite its otherwise pro-Israel tone, Schumer’s speech predictably triggered outrage among staunch pro-Israel Republicans, including many neoconservatives. Writing for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliott Abrams, of Iran–Contra fame, hysterically accused Schumer of attempting to turn Israel into an “American colony” by intervening in its politics. “It’s a shameful and unprecedented way to treat an ally,” he wrote, “and an “unconscionable interference in the internal politics of another democracy.” His views were echoed by Israeli officials like former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who took to social media to denounce his comments as “external political intervention” in Israeli affairs.

These arguments could perhaps be respected were it not for the massive, regular, and institutionalized intervention in U.S. political life carried about by the Israeli government and its supporters, which has successfully turned the affairs of a small country on the eastern Mediterranean into one of the most important domestic political issues in America. Netanyahu himself has shown no embarrassment about his own intervention in American politics, delivering rapturous speeches lobbying the U.S. Congress to legislate in favor of Israel and essentially endorsing his favored political candidates for office during U.S. elections.

American foreign policy is today effectively handcuffed by the lobbying efforts of powerful special interest groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. These organizations are hellbent on ensuring that the U.S. provide Israel unstinting military, economic, and diplomatic support, even as its government rebuffs repeated U.S. requests to allow the creation of a Palestinian state in accordance with international law.

The complaints of people like Abrams and Bennett that the U.S. is intervening in Israeli affairs seem utterly myopic at best, given that extensive U.S. intervention is not just welcomed but also demanded by Israel and its supporters so long as it is in accordance with the security and political needs of the Israeli government.

Now More Than Ever

Schumer’s speech comes at a moment in which Israel has perhaps never been more isolated, or more dependent on U.S. support. The U.S. today has pivoted back to the Middle East against its own wishes, fighting the Houthis on behalf of Israel, providing arms for Israel’s campaign in Gaza, and deterring Hezbollah in Lebanon by parking its aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean. When three American military service members were killed in Jordan earlier this year, the assailants were clear that their motive was retaliating against U.S. support of Israel.

The U.S. has used its veto powers at the United Nations to shield Israel from an onslaught of global outrage over the scenes of mass killing and starvation in Gaza. As Israel has faced diplomatic assaults from Brazil, South Africa, China, and across the Muslim world, the U.S. has remained steadfast as its most important and often only defender in international fora.

All this support has come with very little reciprocation from Israel. In the wake of President Joe Biden’s comments expressing rhetorical support for an eventual two-state solution, Netanyahu publicly humiliated his most important patron by publicly vowing that no Palestinian state would ever be created. The right-wing prime minister even bragged about his own historic role in preventing one from coming into existence.

Netanyahu’s steadfast commitment to defying international law and overwhelming global opinion to pursue a project of continued colonization of the West Bank is only made possible thanks to his and his supporters’ tremendously successful campaign at bending U.S. politics in Israel’s favor. No country has been a greater beneficiary of U.S. support, nor has any country given less back for the tremendous blank checks that the U.S. has written it for decades, up until the present day.

Schumer’s comments on the Senate floor, despite their opposition to Netanyahu and his extremist coalition government, were resoundingly supportive of Israel and hostile to its enemies. But in calling for a two-state solution to the conflict, he contradicted not just Netanyahu but also a majority of the Israeli public who today oppose such an outcome and prefer the status quo, which requires systematic disenfranchisement of Palestinians that human rights groups have classified as apartheid.

In this light, the Senate majority leader’s comments should not be taken as an effort to engineer a color revolution on the streets of Tel Aviv, but rather a last attempt to prevent Israel from descending to a level of ostracism from which even the U.S. would strain to rescue it. “Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world,” Schumer said.

Israel’s supporters who were incensed by his words would be better off taking them as wise counsel.

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tomi4i · 4 days

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pilloclock · 6 months

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Please share because alot of people think this is a War it’s not

#free palestine #pro palestine #donate to palestine #gaza #help gaza #israel #Israeli state #this is not a war #uk against genocide #lgbtqia against genocide #Palestinians #Palestinians are people #humanity #human rights #Gaza 2023 #Gaza trapped

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thebrightestwitchofherage · 4 months

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To all of the westerns arguing with me over my country’s boarders and where I can and can’t go:

I finally found the picture I wanted to add.

As a Jewish woman,I literally cannot go to Palestinian Territories by law and I never have. Stop arguing with me that I can do so….

Edit: since there was some confusion - I’m not complaining about how I can’t go there (even though some Jewish/ Christian people regard some places in the West Bank as holy..).

My point is that I can’t even go there , let alone interact with Palestinians inside the West Bank .. I have no reason to try and break the law and risk my life…

#israel #israeli #jewblr #jewish #טאמבלר ישראלי #gaza strip #israel palestine conflict #hamas is isis #human rights #gaze #free Gaza #pro Israel #ישראל #ישראלי #טאמבלר עברית #politics #bring them home

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theallegedbird · 3 months

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i’m so sick of people saying shit like “oh but gaza is homophobic” or “well if you went there they’d kill you” to justify a literal genocide

the west, usa and uk especially loves to weaponise queer rights in order to portray middle eastern and/or islamic countries as "savage"

israel does the same, they've literally been trying to brand themselves as desirable to the west by doing events such as pride festivals and whatnot, but it's all bullshit and part of their propaganda to appeal to the west so people ignore what they're doing (research “brand israel” it’s fucking insane)

example: this bloody tweet

slaughtering people supposedly in the name of queer rights is fucking disgusting and even then it is not at all what israel is doing. they're committing an ethnic cleansing and no funnily enough it's not because they love the gays

not to mention the absolute hypocrisy in the fact the usa and uk are absolute shit when it comes to queer rights and just keep getting fucking worse, it's all just a blatant excuse to justify israel's genocide of palestinians

no one can possibly try to say "oh but they're homophobic" while they're burying queer palestinians under rubble. even if that was true does that seriously fucking justify way over 25,000 murders, over 10,000 being children

fun fact! dead people can't have rights.

#id in alt #important #free palestine #queers for palestine #ceasefire now #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #fuck israel #palestine #pro palestine #queer rights #israel is an apartheid state #end the occupation #lgbtqia #current events

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princess-of-thebes-1995 · 5 months

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Look at that cat, shaking his legs due to fear of all the bombs. Cannot walk anymore. Animals cannot hide their feelings. Imagine what Palestinians feels inside. Babies, children, mentally handicapped or handicapped people in general like blind and deaf people, elderly.

Where are you vegans and animal rights activist who supports israel?Perhaps the animals from Palestine are lower than animals in your country. Make some excuses. But, it's not my business.

That cat like others in palestine is traumatized for life.

That cat is lucky. He cannot hunt anymore since his limbs are paralyzed. Other animals like him will starve to death if they are not taken care of by humans. Thanks Israel and America

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remindertoclick · 4 days

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Here's your daily reminder to Click for Palestine!!

Be sure to click for the other causes as well if you can!

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starlightshadowsworld · 7 months

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We need to put pressure on our governments to change their stances and aid Palestine.

Daily clicks for Palestine.

Operation Olivebranch spreadsheet.

Find you're local MP's.

Find you're state representives.

Contact them.

Be it through email, telephone or through the post.

Tell them their needs be a ceasefire in Gaza.

Tell them that what Israel is violating the Geneva convention.

The government may be the ones incharge but they do not speak for us.

We are the people, we have a voice and the power to change minds.

And we owe the Palestinians to at least try.

Here is a google document of templates you can use for the UK, US, France, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal.

And if you live in another country you can amend them to fit.

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wastinawaaay · 2 months

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US politicians enabling hate crimes and war crimes and still acting like they have the moral high grand is mind blowing

#nex benedict #palestine #actively backing up the terrorist state of Israel and sending them all sort of help #the blatant trans phobia in the policies and the behavior demonizing them to the point of encouraging others to murder them #pro life BS and ignoring women's autonomy and everybody else's #still claiming they are actually the good guys #I don't know how us americans tolerate it at this point to change the situation and making it better you guys need a fucking revolution #overthrow the government and everything #I as an outsider see no other solution because let's be honest all of your politicians are corrupt in millions ways you can't change them #trans rights #free palestine

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redvelvetwishtree · 6 months

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The Onion headline sounds more plausible than NYT headlines that they changed three times when they didn't want to say who bombed the hospital "500 k1llEd, p@LeSt1n1AnS sAy" fuck off

I hope Israel rots in hell

#how are pro-Israel people standing all this?#social media is a nightmare to scroll through nowadays just fckng imagine what they're going through in Palestine #nothing is right in this world #all those who think they are the best most moral and woke and politically correct are the absolute worse in reality #fuck Israel #palestine #israel #free palestine #gaza #west bank

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daisy-mooon · 6 months

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Why do queer people have to "tolerate homophobes" until the homophobes are Palestinian and undergoing a violently racist genocide. Why is it "Palestinians are homophobic" until the Palestinians are queer and still undergoing the same violently racist genocide.

#palestine #queer rights #queer #lgbt #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #israel #anti israel #pro palestine #genocide #palestinian genocide #idf #anti idf #lgbt rights

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hussyknee · 7 months

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Bit of a mindfuck to see USAmerican conservatives supporting Israel. How do they square that with their antisemitic tinhattery and general abiding hatred of Jews? Do they slap an Israeli sticker with the Star of David on their pickup before or after going and vandalizing a synagogue?

Guess when we said "do not equate the Jewish people with the state of Israel" they went "Hell yeah! Fuck Jews! Stand with Israel!" 💀

Edit: I stand corrected. And informed. What the fuck.

#i know none of this is funny but #it's still pretty funny #other bewilderments:#ukrainians supporting israel #(because Putin is reported to aid Hamas in a roundabout fashion)#like bro. i get you can't criticise the US right now when you need them to fight russia but #it's_the_same_picture.jpeg #(afaik it's also mainly Ukrainian right-wingers)#also the 'British Tamil Conservatives' announced they were pro-Israel as well #saw them get dragged for filth by every other Tamil person on twitter lmao #the right-wing are universally the most brain dead bootlickers #free palestine #knee of huss #wtf news

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tomi4i · 2 months

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