Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., twice described Israel last week as a “pariah” among the world’s nations.
“Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” Schumer said, adding later that the Israeli public “understands better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world.”
For that reason, the Senate majority leader said, Israel should choose a leader other than Benjamin Netanyahu, its current prime minister. Then, Schumer implied, Israel will no longer be a pariah.
In Schumer’s view, and in the view of most of the Democratic Party, as well as that of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, the BBC, and nearly every university in the West, the world is right and Israel is wrong. Therefore, Israel is a pariah among the nations.
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