Friday, March 15, 2024

Agudath Israel Statement on Senator Majority Leader Schumer’s Remarks

 Agudath Israel Statement on Senator Majority Leader Schumer’s Remarks:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a long and distinguished record of strongly supporting the security and welfare of the State of Israel and its citizens. Understanding the millennia-old plight and oppression of the Jewish people, his love and devotion toward Israel are intense and deeply personal. He feels the existential threat that Israel faces and the hate and viciousness that surround her. The pain of Israel, as experienced before and after October 7, is his own. And Israel’s desire for peace, too, is his own. Anyone who knows Senator Schumer, and who reads the words of his major address on Middle East peace, knows this to be true.

We are saddened, though, that important aspects of Senator Schumer’s address crossed a line. Indeed, it was the wrong message at the wrong time.

Putting aside the various policy pronouncements and analyses included in his statement, we are deeply concerned that the Senator directly intervened in the internal affairs of a sovereign foreign nation, a robust democracy, and a staunch American ally, by explicitly calling for new Israeli elections and more than intimating what he believes the outcome of those elections should be.

He further asserted that, if there are no new elections in Israel or if new elections in Israel do not result in an outcome that accords with his preferred policy perspectives, then the United States “will have no choice” but to leverage its aid to Israel in a manner that will exert pressure on Israel to divert its actions from what it deems to be in the nation’s best interests and the elected will of the people.

These intrusive assertions by Senator Schumer would be inappropriate, offensive, and counterproductive at any time. But leveling accusations and criticisms against a steadfast friend during a time of war will only further endanger Israel’s soldiers while they are fighting and dying in pursuit of eradicating the scourge of terrorism.

As the U.S.’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official ever, Senator Schumer has surely reached a pinnacle in American politics. But assuming the role of speaking on behalf of “a silent majority” of American Jewry goes too far. He has no such authority or power. If anything, his historic role and high station in our nation confer upon him the responsibility to carefully heed his words and use them wisely.

12 comments:

  1. Caught between their own ardent zionism & the mess of their chummiest wokey buddy
    Stuck between a rock & a hard place

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  2. Why isn't Judah Benjamin, Senator from Louisiana, the highest ranking since he became Vice-President of the remnant of the nation when the North maliciously succeeded?

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    1. Which part of "U.S.'s" was hard to understand?

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  3. Agudah was much nastier and critical of Trupmp on something that wasn't related to Israe yet they still praise this self hating jew with minimal criticism

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  4. Will the Shotim who accused the Agudah of keeping quiet about Schumer and writing against Trump ask mechila now?
    Or are we expecting too much from shotim?

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    1. Absolutely NOT, the agudah only responded because the shotim called them out on it.
      The onus is on Agudahvas long as they are staffed with self hating lefty loving liberals who attack the ohev yisroel Trump
      No one has rachmanus on Agudah they did it to themselves

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    2. You're probably joking
      cf.the first comment

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  5. Whatever your position on Zionism and the safety of Jews living in Eretz Yisroel (some here seem to opposes both) is it a major step that Schumer has taken. He has gone from being on the side that is widely PERCEIVED (you may believe the perception is wrong) on the side of Jewish interests to the side that opposes it. The people he is currently pandering to are no lovers of the frum world and look at it as being a bunch of white oppressors who they will reeducate once they take over. That shift is not something to ignore

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    1. Just a cold reality check.
      Finally become too difficult for even the thumb twiddling corrupt organizational members of our communities to ignore

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  6. Agudah US , is gurnisht vert

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  7. Hilarious! A washed-up organization. Run by a few machers. Making a machoa for the kavod of Reb binyomin shlita. Talking out at both sides of their mouths just to stayy Safe He's the hero regardless of his responsibility for the October 7th fiasco. No one dare criticize! . If the fool wasn't mine I would also think it's funny

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    1. You should look for humor elsewhere but you certainly should look for it. Lighten up and be more cheerful. It's Adar and you seem too worked up over something that isn't really an accurate depiction of the situation. This way of thinking is not healthy b'ruchnius or b'gasmius.

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