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by Bassam Tawil • April 4, 2023 at 5:00 am
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* US President Joe Biden appears more worried about the Israeli government's plan for judicial reform than the growing support among Palestinians for terrorism against Israel.
* He seems more concerned about a plan to fix the deeply broken judicial system in Israel than about Palestinian threats to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.
* We did not see Biden raise any objection over the Palestinians' "Pay for Slay" policy, which rewards terrorists and their families for the murder of Jews. We did not see Biden raise any objection over the Palestinian leaders' glorification of terrorists, who are being celebrated as "martyrs" by a majority of Palestinians. We did not see Biden raise any objection over the thousands of Palestinians who regularly take to the streets to celebrate the murder of Jews in terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists.
* As Biden was criticizing the democratically elected prime minister of Israel, senior (unelected) Palestinian officials were continuing to use every available podium to spread more libels against Israel.
* Has Biden ever shown any concern that the Palestinians are living under highly undemocratic regimes, with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip? Has Biden or anyone from his administration ever asked the Palestinians why they do not have a functioning parliament?
* The crisis Biden has triggered with Israel because of his recurring criticism of a badly-needed judicial reform plan is great news for Iran and its Palestinian proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), two of the many Islamist terror groups that openly call for the elimination of Israel.
* By sparking a crisis with Netanyahu and the Israeli government, Biden has succeeded in bringing happiness to the enemies of both Israel and the US, perhaps in an effort that will be fruitless, to appease them. The message the Biden Administration is sending is that you are rewarded if you are an enemy of the US but punished if you are a friend.
* Biden has placed himself alongside the mullahs of Iran who are expressing hope that the protests against the Netanyahu government will lead to the "collapse of the Zionist regime."
* The mullahs are clearly happy to see Biden's attacks on the Israeli prime minister, who has been spearheading efforts to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
* The mullahs are also undoubtedly delighted to see the Biden administration turn its back on its major ally and the only democracy in the Middle East: Israel. In the view of the mullahs and most of Israel's enemies, the US has always been the "Great Satan" that stands in the way of achieving their goal of destroying the "Little Satan" Israel.
* Basically, Iran does not want any democratic presence in the Middle East and has presumably been attacking US interests in the area to force the US to pull out.
* In reality, it looks to many in the Middle East as if the Biden Administration's objection to long-overdue judicial reforms is really just a pretext for trying to bring down the democratically-elected Israeli government and replace it with a new government that will allow the US to accept that Iran may have all the nuclear weapons it wants, perhaps with some feckless "compromise," such as "so long as it does not field them." This would be a deeply terrible plan that the Biden Administration might, alarmingly, decide to accept.
* The current US anti-Netanyahu approach will do nothing except empower Iran and its proxies, Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and incentivize them to carry out more terror attacks – not only against Israelis, but against Americans as well.
* The Israeli government's judicial plan is probably not perfect, but it could not be more dangerous than Iran's continued effort to produce nuclear weapons or the Palestinians' rising support for terrorism.
* The Biden administration would do well to understand that those who want to kill the Jews also want to see dead the friends and allies of the Jews. That is why it would be most helpful for America's national security if Biden and his officials immediately defused the tensions and ceased their rhetorical attacks against a small country that is in reality America's only true friend and most trusted ally in the Middle East.

US President Joe Biden appears more worried about the Israeli government's plan for judicial reform than the growing support among Palestinians for terrorism against Israel, and threats to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. Pictured: Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade Palestinian terrorist group at a rally in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images)

US President Joe Biden appears more worried about the Israeli government's plan for judicial reform than the growing support among Palestinians for terrorism against Israel.

He seems more concerned about a plan to fix the deeply broken judicial system in Israel than about Palestinian threats to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.

While Biden has not hesitated to publicly criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government over the judicial overhaul plan, he has yet to speak out against the Palestinians' support for terrorism and their ongoing campaign to isolate and delegitimize Israel.

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by Daniel Greenfield • April 4, 2023 at 4:00 am
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* While the leftist rioters in the streets clamored that they were fighting for democracy, Israel's Supreme Court is its least democratic institution — and the mobs were demanding that it stay that way. None of the American media outlets or politicians accusing the Israeli government of threatening democracy ever got around to explaining why elected officials selecting Supreme Court justices is a good thing in America and a bad thing in Israel.
* These nonprofits are primarily funded by foreign interests, from George Soros, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Center to foreign governments in the European Union and America.
* How it works is simple enough. A leftist nonprofit funded by a foreign government sets out to stop a policy of a democratically elected government. Even though it is in no way affected by said policy, it sues anyway. And even though it lacks any standing, Israel's Supreme Court takes the case anyway.
* The actual case, however, was really brought by Soros or the European Union or Washington, D.C. The Israeli Supreme Court acts as a rubber stamp for rule by foreign governments through leftist groups.
* MQG is a serial plaintiff which repeatedly brings cases to the Supreme Court. In 2020, MQG hired a D.C. law firm to investigate Netanyahu. That same year, MQG began getting money from the State Department.
* Had the judicial reform legislation passed, democracy would have come to Israel. And a bunch of leftist governments would have lost their ability to use their puppets to overrule the will of the people. That was why they did everything they could to stop it.
* What the media portrayed as organic protests were nothing of the kind.
* Political consultants rushed to brand the coup a "democracy" movement, even though there's nothing less democratic than protecting an undemocratic institution from democratic change.
* Israelis saw all too clearly who the activists and, more importantly, the Supreme Court really work for.

While the leftist rioters in Israel's streets clamored that they were fighting for democracy, the country's Supreme Court is its least democratic institution — and the mobs were demanding that it stay that way. Pictured: Anti-government protesters on March 27, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

In the early days of March, a small crowd of leftists gathered outside the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv holding up signs reading, "Biden help!" and "Biden, Blinken, Our democracy is sinking."

A speaker at the rally appealed to Biden to "save us from ourselves."

The consulate rally was held under the banner of "Defend Israeli Democracy," which had organized international protests against democratic judicial reform that would have restored checks and balances. International rallies, including one in Berlin which featured women dressed as the "handmaids" from the TV show and signs accusing Israel of "fascism" and being an "apartheid state," were not speaking to Israelis, but to the international anti-Israel left.

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