The unelected bureaucrats of the Israeli judiciary are the primary force for the Left in that country, which is why the Biden regime loves them so much, and unhesitatingly interferes in Israel’s internal affairs on their behalf. It is good to see Israel pushing back against this high-handedness.
“’Mind your own business’: Israeli minister tells U.S. ambassador after he advised Israel to ‘pump the brakes’ on judicial reforms,” OpIndia, February 19, 2023:
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said on February 19, 2023, Sunday, that U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides should mind his own business and not meddle in the internal affairs of Israel. Amichai Chikli made the strong comments after the American ambassador to Israel spoke against the judicial reforms being carried out by the Benjamin Netanyahu government.
“I say to the American ambassador, slam the breaks on yourself and mind your own business,” said Chikli after Nides said that the Israel govt should go slow on the judicial reforms. “You’re not the sovereign here. We’d be happy to debate with you international or security affairs, but respect our democracy,” the Israeli Diaspora affairs minister added.
“The relationship with the United States is very important, but this intervention by Nides is very problematic,” said Amichai Chikli, strongly objecting to the American ambassador’s comments on Israel’s internal matters.
Amichai Chikli made the comments after Tom Nides said that the Joe Biden administration is demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should “pump the brakes” on the judicial reforms. “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 an interview in the podcast The Axe Files on CNN.
“It’s very complicated, they’re trying to do things way too fast, and to pump the brakes, slow down,” Nides added.
He added that while US is not ‘dictating’ to Israel on how to conduct its internal affairs, he said that the one thing that binds their countries together is a sense of democracy. The ambassador’s comments came after last week Joe Biden said that consensus is needed for any fundamental change while answering a question on the proposed changes in Israel.
“The genius of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong institutions, on checks and balances, on an independent judiciary. Building consensus for fundamental changes is really important to ensure that the people buy into them so they can be sustained,” president Biden had said.
According to op-eds published in American media, Israel govt is attempting to strip the Israeli Supreme Court of its independence and put it under Netanyahu’s control instead. Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is currently discussing the proposed judicial reforms, which propose to give greater weight to the legislation and the executive in the composition of Judicial selection committee.
The reforms seek to curb the influence of an overreaching judiciary, and seek to shift power from unelected bureaucratic rule of the judiciary to elected legislators and the government. The judiciary in Israel has increased its influence over law making and public policy in the last few years, and the proposed reformed spearheaded by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin attempts to correct this….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Essentially, this is Israel’s version of reining in an activist judiciary. Seems to be a common trend across countries: men in robes now indoctrinated in wokeness, and then trying to legislate from the bench. In the US, the only solution was getting the President to appoint several judges in district courts and SCOTUS. Is Israel, they’re trying these reforms, and in India, as the above article noted at the end, “In many ways, the ongoing government versus judiciary debate in Israel is similar in many ways to the same debate going on in India, including the collegium system, courts interfering in administrative activities, stalling development projects, making unwarranted remarks etc.”
At any rate, congratulations to Israel for telling the Biden administration where to stuff it! 👌
Barbara says
Sadly the only reforms our judicial system is continued legislation from the bench. Reforming the judiciary will never happen. The judges will not allow their power to be taken away from them. Executive and legislative branches are to lazy to do the job the constitution defined for the.
Like FDR, Biden wants to pack the Supreme Court so he can control their verdicts.
somehistory says
” an independent judiciary.” biden doesn’t believe this….he criticized the Supreme Court for the decision smacking down the fake “right” for women to kill their babies.
biden wanted to undo the decision and has worked hard to that end. The pentagon is paying their employees’ expenses to travel for hire hit-ghouls and paying the employees to take time off work.
biden and his crew of ghouls in the senate and house have tried to find ways to undo what the Court decided. Not only that decision, but regarding the jab mandates and the border laws.
Furthermore, biden wants to expand the Court so that it will be in line with his ideas and those of his bosses, bo, schumer, pelosi, aoc, etc.
It’s about time someone told them to myob.
Pinkney Roads says
How dare this ambassador, say “we’re telling the Prime minister, LIKE I TELL MY CHILDREN”.
What an incredibly condescending, disingenuous rude and ugly thing to say to a democratically elected head of state. WHO THE HELL DO THEY THING THEY’RE TALKING TO?
Might be time to make this putz persona non grata and tell him to go back to the US and learn some diplomatic manners
Cosmo Linc says
The prime minister of Israel is not the head of state. Israel has a president, it is he who is head of state. The prime minister is head of government. Only the US has a head of state who is also head of government.
Walter Sieruk says
With that horrible demonic and horrendously fiendish villain , Joe Biden sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real ,genuine US President . Biden treacherously betrays Israel and supports the murderous forces of Islamic terrorism.
Therefore is wise to remember that as in the days of Nehemiah when he and his men were busy in the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem and the Arab became furious and indigent at this at this grand project of the rebuilding of the walls. Neh 4:1 and they thus despised the Jews , Neh. 4:4 ,and schemed terrorist attacks against them.
So the Jewish men set up watch for such attacks, Neh 4:8, therefore ,on this watch they set up guards to be ready for those terrorists attacks , Neh 4;16.
Likewise, in this twenty –first century vigilance of strong security in nessasy in Israel against all the future Islamic terrorists attack against the State of Israel.
The Israel security force and military Israeli police as well the citizens of the modern State of Israel need to keep aware vigilant and on guard against attacks, just an in the day of Nehemiah in ancient Israel.
maria linde says
Agree. Biden and his “administration” are the worst demons who try to destroy Israel and allow muslims to establish a whole world califhate
Marilyn Griffin says
Is today’s “woke, no gender” crowd making inroads in the nation and government of Israel as they are in the USA and other nations?
Brenrod says
Nides is either ignorant or dishonest. The US Supremes are appointed by the elected executive authority whereas in Israel the unelected Judiciary chooses them. Netanyahu wishes to make the judiciary more democratic.
Brenrod says
Nides is either an ignoramus or dishonest. The US Supremes are appointed by the elected executive authority whereas in Israel the unelected Judiciary choosing them. Netanyahu wishes to make the judiciary more democratic.
Brenrod says
apology for accidental double post