The influential Democratic majority leader in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, has sharply criticized Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for new elections in the country. “Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said. Schumer, who is Jewish, described himself as a staunch supporter of Israel on Thursday in the US Senate in Washington. Netanyahu, he said in a speech to the Senate, had entered into a coalition with right-wing extremists and as a result was “too willing to tolerate …