Conrad Black
The New York Sun, Mar. 18, 2024
“The only plausible explanation for this absurdly inappropriate bolt from the blue in his Senate address last week is that the president, as his electoral position steadily unravels, asked Mr. Schumer as his principal Jewish colleague, to assist him in trying to reconcile the irreconcilable elements of his faltering coalition.”
Senator Schumer’s call last week for a change of prime minister through an election in Israel was, as it has widely been regarded, an outrageous intrusion in the affairs of another sovereign country, and a close American ally, for whom Mr. Schumer is advocating, substantial, military assistance.
This completes a trifecta of blunders, any one of which should have been quite sufficient to sack Mr. Schumer from his high office and replace him with someone less mindlessly accident-prone. In 2017, in an orgy of histrionics, he purported to weep on the Senate floor in sympathy for those whom the newly installed President Trump wished temporarily to keep out of the United States because they emanated from terrorism-afflicted Muslim countries.
This boffo performance was followed several years later by the spectacle of the Democratic Senate leader standing on the steps of the United States Supreme Court and threatening, apparently physically, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh if they provided the margin in cases antithetical to Mr. Schumer’s far-left ideology. (The Constitution be damned.)
Last week, Mr. Schumer pridefully remarked that he was the senior Jewish public official in the United States. That is a fact that he is right to be proud of but he implied that it empowered him to tell the Jewish state, now at war against the premier terrorist organization in the world, which precipitated the conflict with an invasion of Israel, and the massacre of approximately 1,400 Israelis in October, that it had to take measures that would effectively blunt and suspend its war effort.
Israel is now governed by an all-party, national coalition, and Prime Minister Netanyahu has a clear mandate from the people and parliament of Israel to pursue the complete destruction of the terrorist apparatus of Hamas, which committed the atrocities of October 7, and countless previous outrages. Hamas has made it clear that it will never accept the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state.
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