Schumer triggers backlash in Israel for suggesting Netanyahu needs to go: 'Landed badly'

Dan Senor, a former Bush administration foreign policy adviser and author, explained how "badly" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Israel. He told the "Brian Kilmeade Show" Thursday that despite Netanyahu's low approval ratings in the democratic country, Israeli citizens do not want politicians from other nations deciding their leadership.

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DAN SENOR: I can't overstate how badly it landed in Israel and how badly it landed among the Jewish community in the United States and among the broader, sort of pro-Israel, pro-strong US-Israel relationship advocacy community in the United States. Israel is a thriving democracy. It is not a perfect country. The United States is not a perfect country. The United States, though, is like Israel, a thriving democracy. Israelis choose their leaders. U.S. senators from the well of the Senate do not choose Israel's leaders. It is not a secret that Prime Minister Netanyahu right now is. His polling has gone way down. 2023 was not a good year for him politically. Obviously, a combination of the fight over judicial reforms and then October 7th. So he's unpopular. But when you ask Israelis, should politicians from other countries be deciding who runs Israel? The reaction is 'hell no.' In fact, Prime Minister Netanyahu is now polling better since Schumer's speech, because people just take offense to this idea that the United States would treat Israel, or a U.S. senator would treat Israel like a banana republic.

In fact, even some of Netanyahu's fiercest political opponents, like Benny Gantz, who's serving in this emergency