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.
The history of mutinies is quite interesting, another thing I look for when reading history.
Everyone knows Mutiny on the Bounty, the British hunted for the perps and hanged some of them. 9 of the mutineers found Pitcairn Island, which wasn’t on the British naval charts and settled there.
There were mass mutinies in the French Army in 1917. Some were shot, eventually I think it was Petain who restored morale to the Army. I was just reading about Petain the other day, in the 1930s his reputation was very high, then came WW2 which ruined it.
The British Navy had serious mutinies in 1797 during the wars with France, such as the “Breeze at Spithead”. There is a lot I’ve read about those, perhaps one point is how moderate the British leaders were in settling the mutinies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spithead_and_Nore_mutinies
For those who haven’t been following the issue, there was a mutiny or threatened mutiny in various branches of the armed forces that the left in Israel has been seeking to exploit in order to overthrow the conservative government.
What are the “democratic checks and balances” that the Israeli government is trying to introduce? You use the phrase “democratic checks and balances” over and over. But what are they? What kinds of laws does the current Israeli government plan to pass?
You don’t want to discuss that. Because you know what your readers will think about it.
Israel currently has a judicial dictatorship. The courts have zero checks and there is no balances. The courts go so far as to appoint and promote, and even impeach judges without any oversight whatsoever. They appoint the Attorney General. Cant strike down or modify any laws they care.to.
The modest reform is to have the government controlling the appointments, promotions and impeachments. To give the Knesset the ability to over ride judicial rulings when they rewrite laws.
Mickhorn,
No worries, these are empty threats–we are not a democracy, but a constitutional republic.
If the American left is funding something politically, fight it. If they fight you, you know you chose the right thing, keep doing it.
As the clock ticks we’re getting closer to the end of this age and dispensation of time. As all previous dispensations, this dispensation of time will end in judgement of all the nations, including Israel, for the rejection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Get ready for the end.
Netanyahu is the most pro “American political system” prime minister to ever serve. He tried, unsuccessfully, to usher in a two party system with direct election of the prime minister but was defeated by the socialist left. Israel does not have a constitution to guide them. Their Supreme Court judges elect themselves with out the checks and balances of the the executive and legislative branches. Simply put, under their current system their Supreme Court can purge all conservative judges, pack them selves with progressive liberals(which they have) and even add seats if “they” choose. worst of all they have given themselves the power to overrule the will of the electorate and can and have recently removed a minister with our public consent. I don’t agree with his positions on enabling the ultra religious but on refining Israels political structure to more closely align with ours he is 100% correct!
Heaven help us Daniel, politicians in DC won’t. While Austin and the rest of the EightyOneMillion administration was busy castigating Israel for doing what any free and democratic country might do, update laws to bring in today’s entire population by winning an election, Saudi Arabia has decide to join the axis of evil with the help of China, and resume ties, re-open embassies with Iran. You know the country on the precipice of creating a nuclear weapon who declares daily death to America and Israel.
Maybe Austin should spend more time in preparing the U.S. military for war with China and less time interferring in Israeli politics. Oh, by the way, isn’t he a member of an administration that has repeatedly threatened to pack the U.S. Supreme Court and eliminate the Electoral college? Why, yes, I think he is. But he presumes to lecture Israel on its efforts to undo its system that allows for an definitely undemocratic judicial tyranny.
He presumes to lecture Israel on their political system, because a 60 plus year old adolescent commands him to do so. Austin is part of the black supremacist cabal that runs this country and is destroying it.
Austin should be concerned about the level of preparedness of our military instead of editorializing about political issues in Israel
And Israel’s judiciary is our business, because….?