The Biden administration has not orchestrated the Israeli protests against a judicial overhaul proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team.
“These accusations are completely and demonstratively false,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters. “Any notion that we are propping up or supporting these protests or the initiators of them is completely and [demonstrably] false.”Netanyahu suspended the march toward the adoption of the legislation on Monday in the face of a nationwide strike and a widening trend of civil disobedience by Israeli military reservists. U.S.
"The American State Department is behind the protests in Israel, with the aim of overthrowing Netanyahu, apparently in order to conclude an agreement with the Iranians,” the tweet alleged with a link to a Breitbart piece that aggregated a Washington Free Beacon report on the funding. “Is there a Shin Bet in this country?”“It received a modest grant from the State Department that was initiated during the previous administration,” Patel said.
“There cannot be a civil war. We are on the path of a dangerous collision in Israeli society, in the midst of a crisis that endangers the basic unity between us," the prime minister said Monday."Therefore, out of national responsibility, out of the desire to prevent a rift in the nation, I decided to suspend the second and third readings of the law in this session of the Knesset to give time to reach the same broad agreement on the legislation during the next Knesset.
“It wasn’t us that prepared it; it was Kohelet Forum,” said Israeli lawmaker Keti Shitrit, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, referring to a think-tank described as “the brains of the Israeli right wing” by its U.S.-born founder, Moshe Koppel.
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