{"id":17008,"date":"2024-03-15T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/house-gop-leaders-call-schumers-israel-comments-inappropriate-demand-apology-in-impromptu-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:46:53","slug":"house-gop-leaders-call-schumers-israel-comments-inappropriate-demand-apology-in-impromptu-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/house-gop-leaders-call-schumers-israel-comments-inappropriate-demand-apology-in-impromptu-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leaders call Schumer\u2019s Israel comments \u2018inappropriate,\u2019 demand apology in impromptu press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paywall has-gated-overlay gated-article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">House Republican leaders are blasting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and demanding he apologize for urging Israel to hold new elections while criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The top four GOP lawmakers held an impromptu press conference during their annual retreat this year at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, immediately after Schumer\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018As we were in a work session here within the last half hour, there was a buzz among the audience as people were seeing notices come across their phone as something that was rather shocking to us,\u2019 Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We saw the remarks from Sen. Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel. And we want to speak very clearly and concisely to say that this is not only highly inappropriate, but just plain wrong for an American leader to play such a divisive role in Israeli politics, while our closest ally in the region is in an existential battle for its very survival.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Schumer\u2019s comments were \u2018disturbing\u2019 in the wake of Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel, in which terrorists invaded the southern part of the country and killed over 1,200 people \u2013 mainly civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sen. Schumer owes an apology to the people of Israel, who elected their leadership,\u2019 Scalise said. \u2018This isn\u2019t a time for games. This is a time to stand with our friends who are under attack and show no daylight between the United States and Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., accused Schumer and fellow Democrats of choosing Hamas over Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our Democrats, Chuck Schumer, et al., the White House, they have a problem. But it\u2019s not with Netanyahu. It is with the anti-Israel members of their own party that have taken over the woke left. While they choose Hamas, House Republicans will continue to stand with Israel,\u2019 Emmer said.<\/p>\n<p>They left without taking questions from reporters. It comes just as House Republicans are expected to hear from Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog at their multi-day retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Washington, Schumer took to the Senate floor on Thursday morning, where he condemned both Hamas and Israel for the high death toll of Palestinians and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as Israel responds to the Oct. 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p>He called on Palestinians to throw off their leader, President Mahmoud Abbas, and for Israelis to demand a new election to elect a less \u2018radical\u2019 government.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hamas and the Palestinians who support and tolerate their evil ways, radical right-wing Israelis in government and society, President Abbas, Prime Minister Netanyahu \u2013 these are the four obstacles to peace, and if we fail to overcome them, then Israel and the West Bank and Gaza will be trapped in the same violent state of affairs they\u2019ve experienced for the last 75 years,\u2019 Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These obstacles are not the same in their culpability for the present state of affairs. But arguing over which is the worst stymies our ability to achieve peace.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel\u2019s military response, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leaders are blasting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and demanding he apologize for urging Israel to hold new elections while criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The top four GOP lawmakers held an impromptu press conference during their annual retreat this year at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, immediately after Schumer\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}