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1. Schumer calls for new election in Israel and sharply criticizes Netanyahu  CNN
2. Schumer calls for new Israeli leader to replace Netanyahu in Senate floor speech  Fox News
3. Schumer Calls for End of Netanyahu-Led Government in Israel  The Wall Street Journal
4. Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu  The Washington Post
5. Netanyahu is obstacle to peace says top Democrat Chuck Schumer as he calls for new Israeli elections  The Guardian US

Senate majority leader says Israeli prime minister has ‘lost his way’ and warns that country risks becoming ‘a pariah’

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The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, on Thursday called for Israel to hold new elections, saying he believed the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had “lost his way” and risked turning the country into a pariah with its bombardment of Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis it caused.

The comments from Schumer, the Democratic leader of Congress’s upper chamber and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, came even as he presses for lawmakers to approve a military assistance package for Israel as well as Ukraine, two countries Joe Biden has named as two of America’s top national security priorities.

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