https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19537/israel-judicial-reform
Ignore Washington’s hypocritical talk about protecting democracy. They want a weak government that won’t make trouble when it comes to Iran, and they won’t stop until they get one.
Washington made no secret of its efforts to directly intervene in a domestic Israeli dispute….
The people who jammed the streets… see the maintenance of an unaccountable court with virtually unlimited power as the only way to maintain the Israeli left’s political power even when they lose elections….
Washington is… determined… to oust a democratically elected government by any means possible.
What the White House and State Department want is more pliable Israeli Prime Minister, who will keep quiet about the nuclear threat from Iran, and who can be intimidated into not acting too forestall that deadly threat to Israel’s existence.
As for behaving like a dictator, Biden’s predilection for governing by executive order… even when his diktats are obviously contrary to the constitution or existing laws makes anything Netanyahu might attempt look like child’s play.
[Biden’s] administration apparently thinks that when Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu’s efforts to govern – on the basis of no law, and only on the judges, subjective ideas about what is “reasonable” – it’s a great idea.
[E]stablishment Jewish groups… joined the liberal groups in praising Netanyahu’s surrender to the mob and then had the chutzpah to laud the protesters, who sought to sabotage the country to get their way without even any attempt at balance by treating supporters of the government and reform, who clearly outnumbered the critics at the ballot box last November, as equally praiseworthy.
[T]hey also understand that the hyperbolic claims that Netanyahu and advocates of judicial reform seek to impose a dictatorship or a Torah state is pure fiction.
What Biden and his supporters want in Jerusalem isn’t so much an all-powerful Supreme Court… but anything that can help oust the prime minister.
The [Biden] administration is now willing to tolerate Iran having nuclear weapons as long as they are not going to publicly flaunt them.
This attitude isn’t just unacceptable to all of Israel’s major political parties. It constitutes a grave threat to the security of the Jewish state that no Israeli prime minister could reasonably be expected to tolerate.
The brazen nature of Biden’s attack on Netanyahu… speaks volumes about how much the administration wants an Israeli government that won’t cause trouble over Iran.
It didn’t play a decisive role in the drama that unfolded in Israel as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to call a halt to his efforts to enact judicial reform. But the Biden administration’s willingness to involve itself in the push to oppose the measure was remarkable for two reasons.
