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00:00 As the death toll in Gaza continues to climb, Democrats in the US are losing their patience.
00:05 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had some strong words for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:10 going as far as to call for new elections in Israel.
00:14 As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me the Netanyahu coalition
00:21 no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7th. The world has changed radically since
00:29 then and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that has stuck
00:36 in the past.
00:37 He's not the first Democrat to condemn Netanyahu's leadership and Biden's warnings have been
00:43 well documented. But his speech amounts to the sharpest critique yet from a senior US
00:47 elected official. As the highest ranking Jewish official in the country, he'd so far positioned
00:53 himself as a strong ally of the Israeli government. Netanyahu's party was quick to respond.
00:59 Israel is an independent and proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu, not
01:03 a banana republic. Contrary to Schumer's words, the Israeli republic supports a complete victory
01:09 over Hamas, rejects any international dictates to establish a Palestinian terrorist state
01:15 and opposes the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza.
01:19 Americans overwhelmingly saw Hamas' attack on the 7th of October as horrific, but an
01:24 AP poll from late January found that half of Americans thought Israel's military campaign
01:28 had now gone too far. The US still supplies Israel with weapons, but with the presidential
01:33 election coming up, unwavering support for Israel could alienate part of Biden's electoral