The Biden administration believes that Israel’s far-right government has likely abandoned its divisive plan to overhaul the nation’s judiciary, with PM Netanyahu now motivated to come up with an alternative capable of winning a broad-based consensus.
Monday that he was postponing a vote on the proposal, which critics warn would weaken the judiciary and remove a vital check on executive power.
President Joe Biden spoke to Netanyahu at length on March 19 in a phone conversation that at times grew contentious, a person familiar with the call said. Netanyahu’s posture was that Biden and the U.S. more broadly shouldn’t lecture him about how to lead his country, the person said, requesting anonymity to talk more freely.who was the U.S.
Netanyahu’s original proposal, had it been enacted, would have been difficult for the Biden administration to defend. One of the provisions would have enabled a majority of the Knesset to overturn Supreme Court rulings, effectively neutering the judicial branch.At a moment when democracies and autocracies are battling for primacy, Biden can ill afford to see a staunch U.S. ally cast aside the checks and balances that underpin democratic government.
Having known each other for decades, Biden and Netanyahu are comfortable conversing with a level of frankness unusual in high-level diplomacy. Dennis Ross, a former diplomat who served in the Obama administration, said: “I saw the way he dealt with Bibi. Biden used to say: ‘Listen, pal. We have a problem here. How are we going to deal with it?' The subtext was: Help me to help you.”
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