Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced on Saturday the call by the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Senate for new elections in Israel, calling it "completely inappropriate", in an interview with CNN.
“We are not a banana republic,” he declared while President Joe Biden praised Friday the “good speech” delivered the day before by Chuck Schumer.
This highest-ranking Jewish figure in the American legislative power had notably described Benjamin Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace”.
“Elections will stop the war”
Members of the “international community” calling for elections “do so because they know that elections will stop the war and paralyze the country for at least six months,” the Israeli Prime Minister said on Sunday, quoted by his services. .
“If we stop the war now (…) Israel will have lost the war.
We will not allow it.
This is why we will not give in to these pressures,” he continued, accusing the international community of having “forgotten October 7 so quickly.”