Blinken's caution contradicts the wishes on the Left that the Americans will stop Netanyahu from what he’s doing. Netanyahu, for his part, is contributing his share to the calm atmosphere that is so important to the US administration.
He is among the few of his colleagues who object to judicial activism, but in the same breath criticize the proposed judicial reforms and call for demonstrations against it. In response to the public discourse in which the arguments are based on ideology, senior legal expert Prof. Yoav Dotan provides a perspective that defies easy labels.
Local authorities say the intelligence that led to the police operation indicated that the group may have received instructions from an affiliate of IS called Islamic State-Khorasan Province, which is active in South Asia and Central Asia.
A current reform proposal would permit the Israeli Supreme Court to only block or invalidate government actions that violate actual laws.
Secretary Blinken’s well-intentioned, but misguided, human rights-driven policy has ignored the only choice facing the United States in the Middle East: that between pro-US human rights violating Arab regimes, or anti-US human rights violating Arab regimes.
