The threats are just a reminder that Israel’s judicial reform is vitally necessary.
Israel’s democratically elected government is trying to introduce democratic checks and balances. Biden’s State Department is funding the organization behind the riots and every official who comes to Israel recites the same warnings and threats.
And while reading from the same script.
Having the Secretary of Defense interfere in Israel’s domestic politics is a new low in an administration of lows.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed the importance of an “independent judiciary” on a visit to Israel on Thursday, as thousands took to the streets across the country to protest against government proposals to overhaul the legal system.
Austin, whose schedule was rearranged to keep his engagements close to Israel’s main international airport, told a news conference that both countries “shared values of democracy and freedom and the rule of law.”
“As President Biden has said, the genius of democracy, of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong institutions, on checks and balances, and on an independent judiciary,” he said after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
The Biden administration has given serious consideration to packing the Supreme Court. Israel is trying to reintroduce democratic checks and balances to a judiciary that claims absolute power and the right to select its own members. The torrent of threats is just a reminder that Israel’s judicial reform is vitally necessary.
Jim says
Everything that Joe does since he got control of the WH has been motivated by spite. He has to be the alter ego of Trump, the anti-conservative who does the opposite of the conservatives. So of course he backs jihadis and Islamists and tries to weaken Israel and strengthen the forces that aim to destroy Israel. What else? He and his handlers seem to have a check list of reasonable policies that have to be eliminated so that chaos will take their place. Energy independence, fracking, controlling and limiting immigration, fighting drug cartels, maintaining security and peace in the Near East, restraining Iran, avoiding wars, stopping Chinese advances undermining our security. There does not seem to be any policy that cannot be reversed to make things worse than they were before. And the worst of all is that they could win the next election and even get control of Congress. What is stopping them.
Deodata says
Would you ever have believed you would have seen an American President be against Israel while at the same time helping the terrorists? More proof the world has lost the plot.