It did happen. Do you not remember the sudden demands for new elections in Israel beginning around November by Democratic politicians including Charles Schumer the self proclaimed guardian of Israel who stood on the Senate floor and demanded the collapse of the government of Israel prosecuting a war of survival and its replacement. There is no doubt his marching order came directly from the White House or whoever was running it. It was disgusting and disgraceful and the constant threats and pressure from Biden greatly impacted how the war was prosecuted and is the singular reason it's still going on.
I do remember that, but I've never seen evidence that Schumer was speaking on orders or request from the White House. The plan discussed by administration officials was for Biden to give a speech that would undermine Netanyahu's standing with the Israeli public. The premise was that Biden was extremely popular in Israel. The speech never happened.
Schumer lacked the standing in Israel to "scramble" that nation's politics. I doubt that anyone in the White House thought he could. Most likely, Schumer was expressing his own frustration and embarrassment at the position his longtime support for Israel placed him in with the left-liberals in his party.
Fair point. I suspect the speech from Biden never happened because someone woke up and realized that Biden did NOT have the standing or popularity in Israel to undermine and collapse the Israeli government. I did not mean that Schumer was told to give that speech as part of the plan you describe but rather the Democratic party as a whole (outside of the actual pro Hamas lunatics) adopted a line which was also the White House line not to affect Israel but for domestic reasons. The line was to say "We support Israel but basically see Netanyahu as a dictator leading Israel to ruin not that different from Putin." Naturally it didn't work. Actual Israel supporters were outraged and the pro Hamas lunatic wing of the party is out to this day accusing AOC of being a war criminal.
Demonstrates as best case scenario how anti Israel the Progressive Left is. They did a miserable job of getting US citizens back.
It did happen. Do you not remember the sudden demands for new elections in Israel beginning around November by Democratic politicians including Charles Schumer the self proclaimed guardian of Israel who stood on the Senate floor and demanded the collapse of the government of Israel prosecuting a war of survival and its replacement. There is no doubt his marching order came directly from the White House or whoever was running it. It was disgusting and disgraceful and the constant threats and pressure from Biden greatly impacted how the war was prosecuted and is the singular reason it's still going on.
I do remember that, but I've never seen evidence that Schumer was speaking on orders or request from the White House. The plan discussed by administration officials was for Biden to give a speech that would undermine Netanyahu's standing with the Israeli public. The premise was that Biden was extremely popular in Israel. The speech never happened.
Schumer lacked the standing in Israel to "scramble" that nation's politics. I doubt that anyone in the White House thought he could. Most likely, Schumer was expressing his own frustration and embarrassment at the position his longtime support for Israel placed him in with the left-liberals in his party.
Fair point. I suspect the speech from Biden never happened because someone woke up and realized that Biden did NOT have the standing or popularity in Israel to undermine and collapse the Israeli government. I did not mean that Schumer was told to give that speech as part of the plan you describe but rather the Democratic party as a whole (outside of the actual pro Hamas lunatics) adopted a line which was also the White House line not to affect Israel but for domestic reasons. The line was to say "We support Israel but basically see Netanyahu as a dictator leading Israel to ruin not that different from Putin." Naturally it didn't work. Actual Israel supporters were outraged and the pro Hamas lunatic wing of the party is out to this day accusing AOC of being a war criminal.
Thanks for clarifying this. I think we view the matter similarly.