Chuck Schumer

Sen. Majority Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will sign up for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in extending an invite to Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak sooner than a joint session of Congress.

“He intends to enroll in the invitation, the timing is being labored out,” a spokesperson for Schumer advised The Hill on Thursday. Johnson informed the publication he despatched Netanyahu’s invitation letter to Schumer a couple of month in the past and “it’s been sitting on his desk.”

The revelation comes six weeks after the senator known as for Israel to hold new elections so Netanyahu can be ousted.

Speaking on the Senate flooring on March 14, Schumer mentioned that Netanyahu “all too frequently bowed to the calls for of extremists” in his govt and that it “has develop into clear to me the Netanyahu coalition now not matches the wishes of Israel after October 7.”

The prime minister’s govt consists of hardliners together with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who lately called for the “complete annihilation” of Gaza in line with the Oct. 7 terrorist assaults. In the meantime, Nationwide Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir lamented that too many suspected Palestinian militants are being arrested as an alternative of being killed.

“I additionally believe High Minister Netanyahu has misplaced his means with the aid of allowing his political survival to take priority over one of the best pursuits of Israel,” Schumer stated in his March speech. Netanyahu is presently beneath indictment for corruption, but the trial has been delayed “on account of the struggle.”

Netanyahu remaining spoke in entrance of a joint session of Congress in 2015 and bought 22 standing ovations. Right through his tackle, he criticized then-President Barack Obama’s nuclear maintain Iran. The high minister additionally spoke before Congress in 2011 – when he obtained 29 standing ovations – and 1996.

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