{"id":17100,"date":"2024-03-18T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/netanyahu-tells-cnn-schumers-call-for-israel-election-was-totally-inappropriate\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:46:14","slug":"netanyahu-tells-cnn-schumers-call-for-israel-election-was-totally-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/netanyahu-tells-cnn-schumers-call-for-israel-election-was-totally-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu tells CNN Schumer\u2019s call for Israel election was \u2018totally inappropriate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that comments from US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel were \u201ctotally inappropriate.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a Senate speech that upended longstanding US policy, Schumer \u2014 who is the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US government and normally a staunch supporter of Israel \u2014 called Netanyahu a \u201cmajor obstacle\u201d to peace. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something the Israeli public does on its own. We are not a banana republic,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Instead, efforts should be focused on \u201cbringing down the Hamas tyranny,\u201d Netanyahu said. <\/p>\n

When pressed to comment on whether he would commit to new elections when the war winds down, Netanyahu said, \u201cThat\u2019s something for the Israeli public to decide\u201d and added that it was \u201cridiculous\u201d to talk about it while the war is ongoing. <\/p>\n

The humanitarian crisis impacting Palestinian civilians in Gaza has grown increasingly dire as Israel\u2019s war against Hamas continues, a situation that has increased pressure on Democratic party officials, including President Joe Biden, to take a harder line against Israel. <\/p>\n

US yet to see \u2018credible\u2019 Rafah plan<\/h2>\n

\u201cTime will tell, but Hamas\u2019 outlandish demands \u2026 make that deal a lot more difficult, but we\u2019re going to keep on trying, because we want those hostages back,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand also that the one thing that gets Hamas to give them,\u201d Netanyahu said, \u201cis the continued military pressure that we are applying there.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we will continue military pressure and we are going to continue to try to get those hostages out.\u201d <\/p>\n

Efforts are ongoing on reaching a truce. Mossad\u00a0Director David Barnea is expected to travel to Doha for further talks next week. <\/p>\n

The proposal envisions that a permanent ceasefire would be agreed upon after that initial exchange of hostages and prisoners, as well as a deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. <\/p>\n

In another source of tension between the US and Israel, the White House said Sunday it still has yet to see a \u201ccredible\u201d plan from the Israeli government on how it would protect the hundreds of thousands of civilians in southern Gaza if it moves forward with a military operation in\u00a0Rafah. <\/p>\n

The comments come after Netanyahu confirmed his plans to press on with an operation, despite mounting international concern. <\/p>\n

\u201cI reiterate: We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen,\u201d\u00a0Netanyahu\u00a0said at the beginning of a government meeting. <\/p>\n\n

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that comments from US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel were \u201ctotally inappropriate.\u201d In a Senate speech that upended longstanding US policy, Schumer \u2014 who is the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US government and normally a staunch supporter of Israel \u2014 called <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100","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=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}