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Norm Coleman has known Chuck Schumer for 60 years. They were high school classmates in Brooklyn and later served together in the U.S. Senate. But with his recent comments on Israel, writes Coleman, Schumer has "crossed an unprecedented line." |
Schumer, the Senate's majority leader, recently said that the elected government led by Benjamin Netanyahu "no longer fits the needs of Israel." He called the government "an obstacle to peace" with the Palestinians. Schumer also demanded new elections and threatened that if Netanyahu doesn't step down, the U.S. would take "a more active role in shaping Israeli policy by using our leverage to change the present course." Coleman writes, "Here is the highest ranking Jewish elected political leader in American history threatening to use U.S. financial and diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to dump its democratically elected government and adopt policies favored by radical Democrats in Congress and in the White House." "It's hard to believe that the smart Brooklyn boy I knew 60 years ago has so completely missed the mark," writes Coleman. As Israel faces a moment of crisis, Coleman believes it deserves America's wholehearted support – not threats rooted in election year politics. "Democrats in Washington are seeing their poll numbers dropping," Coleman notes "and Schumer's remarks make clear that they are increasingly willing to sacrifice our ally Israel to win votes in certain battleground states." "It is a 'shanda,' a disgrace, that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of Brooklyn, New York, is the one holding the knife." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, March 15. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Rob Satloff , Segal executive director of the Washington Institute |
With the start of Ramadan, millions of Muslims around the world begin a month of introspection, worship, service and renewed commitment to community. But we should not overlook another aspect of Ramadan that has been a tradition through the ages — the holy month as a time for war. | | |
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By David Driesen, professor at Syracuse University |
What democracy has survived the selection of a leader who stokes violence as President Trump does? Section 3 allows only Congress, by a two-thirds vote, not the Supreme Court, to put our Constitution at risk in this way. |
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By Rand Paul, U.S. senator (R-Ky.) |
For too long, the bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been lining their pockets through clandestine agreements with big corporations, getting cozy with the very entities they are tasked with overseeing. |
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By Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of RAND |
President Putin has accumulated more authority than any Soviet leader, save perhaps Stalin. There is no Politburo. No institutional checks. Putin possesses the personal power of Russia's strongest tsars. |
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