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By Yoni Kempinski
(MARCH 7 / ARUTZ SHEVA) Speaking about the issue of judicial reform, Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein tells Israel National News that the United States government has no right to interfere in internal Israeli policy.
“Israel is a sovereign country. As Menachem Begin said, ‘Israel is not a banana republic.’ They have no right to interfere in a domestic issue. Judicial reform is a serious domestic issue. It’s not America’s business how Israel deals with their judiciary,” he says.
He slammed US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides as “being completely wrong about this.”
He denounced Nides for being obsessively focused on judicial reform but appearing to ignore Palestinian Authority glorification of terrorism and cited a recent speech in Egypt by PA President Mahmoud Abbas who claimed all of historic “Palestine” belonged to the Palestinian Arabs, to which there was no rebuke by the Biden administration.
“I find this interference by my country America and the outrageous actions that are hostile to Israel just unacceptable and intolerable," Klein says.
"I’m very angry at the Jewish leaders in America and the rabbis in America for not making a public issue out of this. But when it comes to Smotrich they make a big issue, not because of what Smotrich said during a time of enormous emotion of Jews being murdered almost every day. They are attacking Smotrich because they don’t like his policy on judicial reform, not because they are horrified by what he said for which he apologized and said, ‘Look I was emotionally distraught.’”
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