After Biden said he was “very concerned” about Israeli democracy, Netanyahu responded by tweeting, “Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad.'
and warned that the country “cannot continue down this road.”
Speaking in unusually direct terms about a U.S. ally, Biden said he had no intention of inviting Netanyahu to the White House “in the near term” and appeared to question whether the Israeli leader sincerely wanted to compromise. “For decades, Israel was the USA’s closest ally. The most extreme government in the country’s history ruined that in three months,” said Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader.
Protesters opposed to Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul announced a demonstration in front of a U.S. Embassy building in Tel Aviv on Thursday to rally in support of Biden’s criticism. Opponents of the overhaul argue they amount to a power grab that threaten to push the country toward dictatorship. Netanyahu argues that he is merely rebalancing power toward elected lawmakers and away from a judiciary that the right views as overstepping.
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