Secretary of State Antony Blinken brushed off an Israeli minister who protested his “lesson in democracy” as he visited Jerusalem amid an intense debate about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reform.
“What I talked about yesterday ... reflects the shared values that the United States and Israel have had and held for more than 75 years, and it is nothing more and nothing less than that,” Blinken told reporters Tuesday. “I continue to be inspired by the vibrancy with which Israel shares those values, something that, again, we’re seeing right now, and I think I can say the same thing about my own country, the United States.
“Our fellow democracies can also make us stronger. That’s what the United States and Israel have done for each other over many decades, by holding ourselves to the mutual standards we’ve established,” Blinken said. “The discussion that the prime minister and I had today was no exception.” The judicial reform has raised doubts about that prospect within the Israeli system, in part because it weakens the judiciary’s ability to strike down laws passed by the Knesset.
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