Likud responds to Schumer's call for new elections in Israel: "We are not a banana republic"

The Likud Party issued an official response today (Thursday) to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's statement calling for new elections and claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not represent the majority of Israelis in his conduct of the war.

In the statement, the Likud party said that "we are not a banana republic, but an independent and proud democracy which elected Prime Minister Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu is leading a determined policy which is supported by an enormous majority of the people."

Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog also critiqued the decision:

Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Yesh Atid posted on X/Twitter that "Senator Chuck Schumer's speech that Netanyahu is losing the biggest supporters of Israel in the US one after the other. What's worse - he's doing it on purpose. Netanyahu is causing heavy damage to the national effort to win the war and protect Israeli security."