Strong reactions in Israel after the leader of the American Democratic senators towards Netanyahu. Chuck Schumer virulently attacks Benyamin Netanyahu who, he says, follows his personal interests and risks transforming Israel into an international pariah.
Words which are very poorly received by Israeli leaders. Relations between Israel and the United States have reached boiling point, several editorialists proclaim. For Likud, Netanyahu's Israel party is an independent and proud democracy which elected its Prime Minister, and not a banana republic.