Chuck Schumer is clueless ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Chuck Schumer is clueless

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urges Israel to hold snap elections, arguing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “no longer fit” to serve as premier, as gaps between the US and Israel continue to grow over the latter’s prosecution of its war in Gaza against Hamas.

“The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. The world has changed – radically – since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past,” says Schumer.

Netanyahu has “lost his way, putting himself in coalition with far-right extremists like [Finance Minister] Bezalel Smotrich and [National Security Minister] Itamar Ben-Gvir.”

Schumer doesn't have a clue about how Israelis think.

Netanyahu is not popular. His government rates abysmally in polls with only 20% of the people finding it trustworthy. He would not get a majority in any election, although he is probably still the most likely to put together a coalition.

But Schumer cannot distinguish between Netanyahu and Israel, and he is poorly informed about what Israel is doing in Gaza.

The people of Israel overwhelmingly support the war in Gaza, including how it is being waged. While trust in the government is low, trust in the IDF is quite high, and has remained so throughout the wat.

Schumer may consider himself pro-Israel, but his speech appears to betray that he believes the lies of Hamas over the truth from the IDF.

He has access to the best and brightest military minds in the world from the US armed forces. Yet he apparently has never asked any general or military expert what Israel could do better to minimize the loss to human life while maintaining the goal of destroying Hamas. Because, as the military experts that have visited Israel all testify, Israel is doing about as good a job as humanly possible, and better than any of them expected.

Not even asking the question - or, worse, knowing the answer and still claiming that Israel is acting recklessly in Gaza - is not pro-Israel. To say the least.

Beyond that, Schumer is attempting to conflate the war with the two state solution, something that practically no Israeli is stupid enough to do outside some writers at Haaretz. Israelis realize that tlking about a Palestinian state now is a reward for October 7. Any thinking person can see that - attack Israel and achieve what couldn't be achieved through negotiations that went nowhere not because of Israel but wholly because of Palestinian intransigence.

Even worse, every poll of Palestinians show that they supported the October 7 attacks. They have proven more than ever that as they are now, they do not deserve a state. A Palestinian state would be pro-terror, antisemitic, misogynist, anti-gay and would, in short order, become a vassal state for Iran.

How would Schumer prevent that? If he cares so much about the day after the war, certainly he has a plan for the year after a Palestinian state, right? But I haven't seen any such plans promoted by any Democratic leader, or any progressive mouthpiece.

The idiots who still believe in a two state solution have no plan. They have a religion. It is all based on faith, on hopes, on dreams, and on the fatal assumption that Palestinians would act like rational Westerners would when given a state.

The second intifada proved that a Palestinian state is not a realistic solution for Israel's future, not as the Palestinians act today, with terrorists as their role models and Hamas the most popular institution in the West Bank, today.

The Oslo process ended long ago. If anyone is stuck in he past, it is Schumer.

Chuck Schumer loves to say - and he said it during this speech as well - that his last name is derived from the Hebrew word "shomer," or guardian.

It is almost certainly a lie. Wiktionary says "The surname Schumer was an occupational name for a cobbler. The name Schumer is derived from the Old German words "schuoch" and the suffix "mann," which means shoe maker." Ancestry.com says it is "probably an occupational name for a dairy man from his activity of milking cows which produces foam, from Middle High German schūm German Schaum."

However, based on this speech, I think the true origin for Chuck Schumer's surname is the one mentioned in the American Dictionary of Family Names, which actually tracks far better than "schuoch" and "schaum."