Amid the controversy over the Biden administration’s interference with the internal affairs of the State of Israel, about which Jihad Watch posted here, US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides is boasting about how he spends the lion’s share of his time “trying to help the Palestinian people.” He also says: “I was the first person out there when Ben Gvir went up to the Temple Mount to stir up trouble.”
Ben Gvir had every right to visit the Temple Mount, where he abided by the status quo — which is completely outdated and unfair. Jews have every right to pray on the Temple Mount.
And in a poor attempt to appear as if he was defending Israel’s system of democracy, Nides got himself in even deeper, asserting that “the one thing that binds our countries together is a sense of democracy and a sense of [the importance of] democratic institutions.”
Is he insinuating that Israel has abandoned or is in the process of abandoning democracy? He is likely referring to the protests over judicial reform, yet the efforts of activist media to make it seem as if the Israeli public is unsupportive of its government fail to take into consideration the fact that the government was elected by the Israeli people. The truth is also that the Palestinian Authority is an oppressive, dangerous, jihadist entity that pays jihadists to do its bidding. Nides ignores that.
Nides is getting paid with American taxpayer money for his personal mission that favors Palestinians. It would be more suitable if he and his cronies were paid by the Palestinian Authority or the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for fanning the flames of the Palestinian “resistance.” Yet that Palestinian “resistance” has become a Democrat platform.
No other State but Israel endures such absurd meddling.
More on this story. “US envoy: We’re telling Netanyahu to ‘pump the brakes’ on judicial overhaul push,” by Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, February 19, 2023:
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says the Biden administration is urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “pump the brakes” on his government’s effort to overhaul the judiciary, as the coalition looks to power forward with the contentious legislation despite a lack of broad support from the public.
“We’re telling the prime minister — as I tell my kids — ‘pump the brakes, slow down, try to get a consensus, bring the parties together,’” Nides told former Obama administration official David Axelrod during a wide-ranging podcast interview, which aired Thursday.
The comments against the government’s effort to significantly restrict the power of the High Court of Justice were the most forceful yet from the Biden administration, which has gradually taken a more active role in pushing back against the overhaul since it was introduced last month.
Nides also offered frank comments about the attention Netanyahu is giving to the warnings from economists against the overhaul, US efforts to advance measures to improve Palestinian livelihood in lieu of a major peace initiative, and the administration’s frustration with Israel over settlement activity. The envoy also expressed his disappointment in some Gulf countries for their failure to condemn such actions, his concerns about the deadly cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, and about National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s “provocative” recent visit to the Temple Mount.
On the issue of the judicial overhaul, Nides reiterated that the US was not going to “dictate” specific parts of the proposed legal shakeup, such as how judges should be appointed to the Supreme Court. (The Knesset is set to vote in a first reading Monday on the coalition’s controversial bill that would grant it a majority on the Judicial Selection Committee, replacing the current composition where neither the government nor the judiciary has a majority on the panel.)
“However,” Nides clarified, “the one thing that binds our countries together is a sense of democracy and a sense of [the importance of] democratic institutions.”…
“I was the first person out there when Ben Gvir went up to the Temple Mount to stir up trouble. You do not need to do that,” he said before expressing his appreciation to Netanyahu for publicly declaring afterward that Israel intends to respect the status quo, under which Muslims may pray at the holy site they refer to as the Noble Sanctuary while non-Muslims can only visit under strict conditions.
“It lights up the Middle East when they do provocative acts. We were very aggressive, as well as the rest of the [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries, when this occurred. This is the kind of nonsense that lights things on fire,” he added.
Nides appeared to get the most animated when discussing his and the administration’s effort to improve Palestinian livelihood.
“I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people,” he declared, citing the administration’s efforts to increase aid to the UNRWA agency for Palestinian refugees and the East Jerusalem Hospital Network, in addition to coaxing Israel to expand the operating hours of the Allenby West Bank-Jordan crossing and allow Palestinians access to 4G cellular coverage. The latter two initiatives have yet to be implemented….
maria says
Mr Nides is a JINO not a real Jew. With persons like Nides we Jews don´tn need any antisemites
joanofark06 says
I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou art rich), and I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 2:9
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should just declare this ambassador persona non grata and expel him for indulging in activities inconsistent w/ his role. Usually, that’s diplomatic code for spying, but it would coincidentally be true here as well: he doesn’t know what his job description is, and should be reassigned to Ramallah
Once done, Israel should refuse to accept any envoy unless it’s someone they approve. It shouldn’t be difficult: Biden could appoint someone like Adam Schiff to the job, who, for all his faults, has a clean record when it comes to support of Israel
somehistory says
they were right to tell the buy to mind his own business…which he doesn’t seem to realize is supposed to help Israel get along with the U.S. He is meddling in something biden wouldn’t want from a Jew sent from Israel.
Helping the misnomered “palistenians” is not something anyone should be doing as long as their main thing is terrorism.
biden and crew don’t want the courts to be reformed…just in case they are ever arrested for committing crimes in Israel, and so that their cohorts in terror will not be punished harshly nor denied funding from abbas.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not just that, most countries w/ representations to ‘Palestine’ have their offices in Ramallah: regardless of what they ‘officially recognize’, they don’t play pretend when it comes to putting real diplomatic staff there. If Biden loves ‘Palestine’ so much, he should open up a consulate/’embassy’ at Ramallah, and send Nides there
joanofark06 says
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides is boasting about how he spends the lion’s share of his time “trying to help the Palestinian people.”
Saddening, but this shouldn’t surprise anyone. This is normal dog doo doo from OBiden!!