WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va.— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) call for new elections in Israel, describing it as “highly inappropriate” and “wrong.”
The comments were made during a sudden press briefing at the House GOP retreat in West Virginia on Thursday, following Schumer's remarks on the Senate floor. delivered remarks on the Senate floor that urged Israel to hold new elections and strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “having “lost his way.”
“We want to speak very clearly and concisely to say that this is not only highly inappropriate, it’s just plain wrong for an American leader to play such a divisive role in Israeli politics while our closest ally in the region is in an existential battle for its very survival,” Johnson said at a press conference alongside other House GOP leaders.
“We need to be standing with Israel. We need to give our friends and allies our full support. We have to stand with and support them right now. But what you’re seeing from the White House and clearly from the Senate Democrats, is really exactly the opposite,” he added.
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