Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections. The senate’s top Democrat says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and a growing humanitarian crisis there. Schumer,- the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate-says the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists. Supporters of Netanyahu says Israel gas been forced to fight Hamas in Gaza and that the terrorist group is to blames for civilian deaths by using the population as human shields.