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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke to senate republicans over video conference at their weekly lunch meeting. >> more than five months after the butchery of october 7th, israelis are overwhelmingly ited behin their government's war cabinet in support of ongoing military operations against hamas. by contrast, some prominent american democrats are increasingly vocal in their belief that israel unity government and israeli voters are wrong., what we are talking about here. as much as some of our colleagues might like them to be, democrats agreed are sent

up a critical attempts to influence israeli to mystic politics aren't some simple or narrow critique of a particular prime minister. they are an affront to the very independence of the state of israel, a sovereign■ nation, a robust democracy, and one of america's closest allies and friends. not a colony, not a vassal state, n of our own domestic politics. as i said last week, our mocratic colleagues doproblem,y have an anti-israel problem. what else are we supposed to make of the way democrats of

fallen in line behind the position the democratic leader expressed on the floor last week. it is absurd enough for american senators elected membe knesset as if their views should have any bearing on how israel conducts its domestic politics but unfortunately, it president that he is america's commander in chief, not a supreme allied commander with authority over israel's war operations. i was worried to see the us inlligence commander opined publicly last week on the stability of the israeli government. seems to me we should ask our intelligence professionals to keep their assessments of our closest partners closer to their chest.

think about just how embarrassing our colleagues would find this behavior if it was directed toward any other democratic us ally. think about how we might be received if the dni or cia director publicly commented on political tensions within germany's coalition government or on the decisionmaking processes of president macron or the declining public support for the trudeau government in canada. america is best served when our intelligence professionals refrain from public comments on politics, both our own and our allies. so the war thrust upon israel

islamic jihad has already brought a host of profoundly embarrassing revelations to light. itnited nations relief and works agency as irredeemably corrupt the violent kidnapping of israelis and the indoctrination of palestinians in a culture of hate, violence, and terror.m a elite universities have allowed to fester on their campuses and someese institutions, weakening grasp on moral resolve and it is exposing democrats as unwilling or incapable of resisting the political pressures of their radical base. the cow our colleagues have

staked out vocal support for policies for which even the israeli left has said it has no time.■ membership in the u.s. senate does not come with voting rights in the knesset. it certainly doesn't entitle colleagues who spent years decrying foreign interference in american politics to decide one day to flip the script on our allies. let's get one thing straight. crisis rests entirely on the shoulders of hamas. .. cowardly terrorists■$ ruled gaza from beneath schools and hospitals released their innocent hostages. and the people they oppress every day, the people of gaza, have a say in the matter.

have a say in the matter. i can turn on hamas, turning terrorist leadersó9, and turn or the hostages by palestinian this confli,8ct i place. until then, mr. president, israelis the unity government ought to continue to do what the overwhelming majority of israelis expect of it, bring the innocence home, bring the justig peace and security to its citizens. and i might add, pay the peanut gallery no mind. >> g in the palm of your hand when you preorder your copy of the

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>>this y celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979 we have in your primary source for capitol hill providing balanced unfiltered coverage of government. take you to other policies debated and decided all with the support of america's cables. c-span, 45 years and counting, powered by cable. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer was joined by other democratic leaders to discuss this with government funding deadline for the remaining fiscal year. he talks about president biden's announcement of a multimillion dollar grant for production with intel and continued to defend his recent speech calling for new election in israel. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]