Wave Bye Chuck
2025-02-05 09:12:46 UTC
Going back to his school days, Chuck Schumer was known as a very smart
fellow. His brains evidently got him somewhere, as he is now the Majority
Leader of the U.S. Senate, the fourth most powerful position in the
American government. He also is the highest ranked Jewish elected official
ever none of his faith has yet been elected president, vice president or
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Not everyone likes Schumer he is a very partisan Democrat with a sharp
tongue but he is respected, popular in his home state of New York, and
generally well-regarded in the Jewish community. The latter was earned
through many years of stalwart support of the State of Israel.
But now, with one colossal mistake of a speech, Chuck Schumer has thrown
away his communitys high regard and burned some of the essential bridges
that buttress his power and position.
Just before March 15, Schumer spoke on the floor of the Senate and
denounced the elected government of Israel and its prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for him to be overthrown. The Netanyahu
coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7, Schumer said.
At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to
allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of
Israel.
By coincidence, the next day was the Ides of March, the notorious date
when several Roman senators conspired to assassinate the Roman leader
Julius Caesar by stabbing him to death. Caesars last words were
reportedly of shock and disbelief that his close friend Brutus was among
the conspirators: Et Tu, Brute? You, too, Brutus?
Schumer, despite political differences, was Netanyahus longtime personal
friend. Even more significant, Schumer knows Israel is engaged in a life-
or-death struggle for survival in Gaza with a terrorist Hamas army that
invaded Israel on October 7, killing and raping 1,200 persons, many of
them civilian women and children, and taking more than 200 as hostages,
including American citizens.
Schumer also knew well that Israel had in the past turned over the Gaza
Strip and let the Palestinians choose their own government which soon was
dominated by Hamas, an anti-Israel terrorist faction living in Gaza.
Schumer knew Israel had no choice after the murderous October 7 invasion
but to send its citizen army, the IDF, into Gaza to destroy Hamass
ability to attack the Jewish state and harm its citizens ever again.
Schumer knew that the civilian casualties caused by the IDF were well
below the numbers the Hamas propaganda group was reporting in order to
gain international sympathy for Gaza, and that the terrorists were hiding
among civilians and using them as shields. Hamas also placed their bases
of operation near or inside hospitals and schools all violations of
international law. Schumer was aware that the IDF was, in fact, making
historic efforts to protect civilians as it sought to find the terrorists
and eliminate them.
Schumer knew all of this, which clearly contradicted the spurious
allegation of Israel wantonly harming Gazan civilians, as reported daily
by media that are hostile to Israel.
Schumer knew all this, but he had a political problem: it is a national
election year, and the far left of his party is vehemently anti-Israel and
in some cases openly pro-Hamas. His fellow Democrat, President Joe Biden,
is running for re-election, and the Pro-Hamas Democrats were threatening
to withhold their votes from the incumbent who had come out generally on
Israels side. In the Michigan primary and other primaries, a small but
notable number of these radicals voted no preference to demonstrate
their opposition to Bidens pro-Israel policy.
Understandably, Biden made gestures to placate his left wing, and his
support for the Netanyahu government began to shift.
As international support for Israel waned, abetted by Hamas propaganda,
Biden finally tried to restrain the IDF from completing their mission at
the last Hamas stronghold in south Gaza, as well as force the Israelis to
agree to a ceasefire, despite Hamass unwillingness to compromise in good
faith.
With overwhelming support in Israel, and in U.S. public opinion, Netanyahu
rejected Bidens pressure. The U.S. media had long been conducting an
anti-Netanyahu campaign, and so it became necessary for Democrats to
strike a major political blow against the Israeli prime minister to force
his hand.
Did Joe Biden ask, or even demand, that Chuck Schumer call for Netanyahus
ouster in a Senate speech?
Or did the highly partisan majority leader, knowing his prestige in the
Jewish community, decide to throw his political weight around? Or both?
It doesnt much matter who caused it to happen. Schumers classmate in
high school, former St. Paul mayor and former fellow U.S. Senator Norm
Coleman, now the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called Schumers
speech a disgrace, and a stab in the back. It was likely even worse it
was likely stupid.
Placating some leftist Democrats (who have nowhere else to go in November)
might regain some base votes, but a far larger number of liberal Jewish
votes and pro-Israel evangelical Christian votes are more likely to be
lost by this Biden-Schumer misadventure. With polls showing black and
Hispanic Democrats shifting to the GOP, this anti-Israel strategy seems
obviously self-defeating.
After his final words to Brutus, Caesar succumbed. But after he now says,
Et tu, Chuck, Bibi Netanyahu, with Israeli voter support and U.S. public
opinion behind him, will still be in charge and hopefully leading the IDF
to complete their mission in Gaza.
The proper election that will change governments in 2024 will not be in
Israel, but in the United States.
Next January, with a new U.S. president, and Schumer reduced to be a
feckless minority leader, the last laugh of this sad episode might be
heard in Jerusalem.
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/et-tu-chuck-schumer-not-only-
wrong-but-stupid/
fellow. His brains evidently got him somewhere, as he is now the Majority
Leader of the U.S. Senate, the fourth most powerful position in the
American government. He also is the highest ranked Jewish elected official
ever none of his faith has yet been elected president, vice president or
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Not everyone likes Schumer he is a very partisan Democrat with a sharp
tongue but he is respected, popular in his home state of New York, and
generally well-regarded in the Jewish community. The latter was earned
through many years of stalwart support of the State of Israel.
But now, with one colossal mistake of a speech, Chuck Schumer has thrown
away his communitys high regard and burned some of the essential bridges
that buttress his power and position.
Just before March 15, Schumer spoke on the floor of the Senate and
denounced the elected government of Israel and its prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for him to be overthrown. The Netanyahu
coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after Oct. 7, Schumer said.
At this critical juncture, I believe a new election is the only way to
allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of
Israel.
By coincidence, the next day was the Ides of March, the notorious date
when several Roman senators conspired to assassinate the Roman leader
Julius Caesar by stabbing him to death. Caesars last words were
reportedly of shock and disbelief that his close friend Brutus was among
the conspirators: Et Tu, Brute? You, too, Brutus?
Schumer, despite political differences, was Netanyahus longtime personal
friend. Even more significant, Schumer knows Israel is engaged in a life-
or-death struggle for survival in Gaza with a terrorist Hamas army that
invaded Israel on October 7, killing and raping 1,200 persons, many of
them civilian women and children, and taking more than 200 as hostages,
including American citizens.
Schumer also knew well that Israel had in the past turned over the Gaza
Strip and let the Palestinians choose their own government which soon was
dominated by Hamas, an anti-Israel terrorist faction living in Gaza.
Schumer knew Israel had no choice after the murderous October 7 invasion
but to send its citizen army, the IDF, into Gaza to destroy Hamass
ability to attack the Jewish state and harm its citizens ever again.
Schumer knew that the civilian casualties caused by the IDF were well
below the numbers the Hamas propaganda group was reporting in order to
gain international sympathy for Gaza, and that the terrorists were hiding
among civilians and using them as shields. Hamas also placed their bases
of operation near or inside hospitals and schools all violations of
international law. Schumer was aware that the IDF was, in fact, making
historic efforts to protect civilians as it sought to find the terrorists
and eliminate them.
Schumer knew all of this, which clearly contradicted the spurious
allegation of Israel wantonly harming Gazan civilians, as reported daily
by media that are hostile to Israel.
Schumer knew all this, but he had a political problem: it is a national
election year, and the far left of his party is vehemently anti-Israel and
in some cases openly pro-Hamas. His fellow Democrat, President Joe Biden,
is running for re-election, and the Pro-Hamas Democrats were threatening
to withhold their votes from the incumbent who had come out generally on
Israels side. In the Michigan primary and other primaries, a small but
notable number of these radicals voted no preference to demonstrate
their opposition to Bidens pro-Israel policy.
Understandably, Biden made gestures to placate his left wing, and his
support for the Netanyahu government began to shift.
As international support for Israel waned, abetted by Hamas propaganda,
Biden finally tried to restrain the IDF from completing their mission at
the last Hamas stronghold in south Gaza, as well as force the Israelis to
agree to a ceasefire, despite Hamass unwillingness to compromise in good
faith.
With overwhelming support in Israel, and in U.S. public opinion, Netanyahu
rejected Bidens pressure. The U.S. media had long been conducting an
anti-Netanyahu campaign, and so it became necessary for Democrats to
strike a major political blow against the Israeli prime minister to force
his hand.
Did Joe Biden ask, or even demand, that Chuck Schumer call for Netanyahus
ouster in a Senate speech?
Or did the highly partisan majority leader, knowing his prestige in the
Jewish community, decide to throw his political weight around? Or both?
It doesnt much matter who caused it to happen. Schumers classmate in
high school, former St. Paul mayor and former fellow U.S. Senator Norm
Coleman, now the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called Schumers
speech a disgrace, and a stab in the back. It was likely even worse it
was likely stupid.
Placating some leftist Democrats (who have nowhere else to go in November)
might regain some base votes, but a far larger number of liberal Jewish
votes and pro-Israel evangelical Christian votes are more likely to be
lost by this Biden-Schumer misadventure. With polls showing black and
Hispanic Democrats shifting to the GOP, this anti-Israel strategy seems
obviously self-defeating.
After his final words to Brutus, Caesar succumbed. But after he now says,
Et tu, Chuck, Bibi Netanyahu, with Israeli voter support and U.S. public
opinion behind him, will still be in charge and hopefully leading the IDF
to complete their mission in Gaza.
The proper election that will change governments in 2024 will not be in
Israel, but in the United States.
Next January, with a new U.S. president, and Schumer reduced to be a
feckless minority leader, the last laugh of this sad episode might be
heard in Jerusalem.
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/et-tu-chuck-schumer-not-only-
wrong-but-stupid/