Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”
In recent days, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the country and a strong Israel supporter, called on Israel to hold a new election, saying Netanyahu had “lost his way.” President Joe Biden expressed support for Schumer’s “good speech,” and earlier accused Netanyahu of hurting Israel because of the huge civilian death toll in Gaza.
Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”
I’m a little confused by the calls for a re-election. Netanyahu was just re-elected a few years ago, and they’re in the middle of a war and he’s a constant.
Won’t he likely be reelected?
This is a pretty good rundown of why you shouldn’t count netanyahu out of re-election:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/29/netanyahu-is-a-failure-and-israels-next-winner/
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Thirteen years, i think? I’m not sure, but it’s been a long time