Cyrus Janssen: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, he did come out a couple of weeks ago and say Netanyahu is the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East. He had a very powerful speech that obviously not supported by the Netanyahu regime. He was very upset about that, immediately came out blasting him. Of course you have some people within our Senate and our Congress who had pushed back against Schumer. Do you think that was really the Democrats trying to somehow save some face here? Because at one point we just passed a bill for an additional $3.8 billion to Israel and at the same standpoint we are blocking now foreign aid to the UNRWA, which is the only relief agency which actually provides humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza...
Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Well, first of all I don't think Chuck Schumer was terribly serious about any of it. That was sort of a smokescreen designed to give, as you say, the Democrats and President Biden some cover. It wasn't taken seriously in Israel because they know he's not serious. You heard him speak: "I've supported Israel all my life. There's no one more supportive of Israel than I am.." Effectively declaring himself an Israeli.
~ Colonel Douglas Macgregor,
interview with Cyrus Janssen, 12:20 mark, April 3, 2024
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