(14.03.2024)
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., delivered an address on the Senate floor to call for a two-state solution amid the conflict in Gaza and new elections in Israel.
Daily Archives: 13. März 2025
‘Part of My Core’: How Schumer Decided to Speak Out Against Netanyahu
(19.03.2024)
It was here, he recalled, inside this hulking red brick school deep in south Brooklyn, where at 16 he was glued to his transistor radio to hear breaking news of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. It was where he idolized Sandy Koufax, the Jewish pitcher for the Dodgers who refused to play on Yom Kippur, and learned it was cool to be proud of his heritage.
And on Sunday, Mr. Schumer, the New York Democrat, majority leader and highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, returned to explain how his upbringing in Jewish Brooklyn in the shadow of the Holocaust prompted him to deliver a politically risky speech that brought about a watershed moment in the politics of U.S.-Israeli relations.
Trump draws condemnation for using ‘Palestinian’ as a slur against Schumer
“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,” Trump said.
Previously when he served as Senate majority leader, Schumer was the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States.
His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
‚No one‘s expelling anyone from Gaza,‘ Trump says before meeting with Irish PM
Trump also called US Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, „a Palestinian“ during the meeting. „Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I‘m concerned.“
Israeli official: Talks in Doha on Gaza are centered on ‘Witkoff proposal’
(March 12, 2025)
The outline — said to have been created in talks between Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff — envisions a roughly two-month extension of the ceasefire, during which Hamas would release about half of the living hostages up front, and the rest at the end along with an end to the war.
Arab foreign ministers agree to resume talks on Gaza reconstruction plan with US envoy in Doha
Hamas and Israel delegations are currently meeting in Doha for a new round of talks on the Gaza ceasefire, with Witkoff joining alongside Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
Palestinian worker succumbs to wounds at construction site in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, March 12, 2025 (WAFA) – A Palestinian worker Wednesday succumbed to the serious injury he had sustained after falling from a construction site in the occupied city of Jerusalem, according to Jerusalem Governorate.
It said that Raafat Abdulaziz Abdullah Hammad, 35, died of his injury after being chased by Israeli occupation forces and falling from a height of five floors at a construction site in the city.