Lapid: Schumer’s speech proof that PM losing Israel’s best supporters ‘one by one’

By Jacob Magid

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14 March 2024, 6:17 pm 5 Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

Opposition Leader Yair lapid argues against the 2024 amended budget during a debate in the Knesset, March 13, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Opposition chair Yair Lapid says Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s call for elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “proof that one by one [the premier] is losing Israel’s biggest supporters in the US.”

“What’s worse – he’s doing it on purpose,” Lapid says, albeit without any proof.

“Netanyahu is causing significant damage to the national effort to win the war and maintain Israel’s security.”