US Ambassador: I think most Israelis do not want the US not to interfere in Israel's affairs (Walla system!)
The leader of the Republican minority in the US Senate Senior Senator Mitch McConnell told the Walla!
In an interview at the end of his visit to Israel that Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to weaken the judicial system is an internal Israeli matter in which the United States should not interfere.
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McConnell's remarks generally set the public stance taken by many Republican senators and congressmen.
Unlike their Democratic colleagues, most Republican lawmakers have so far refrained from expressing a position on the issue of the legal revolution in Israel.
Dealt with the legal revolution with an American executive extensively.
Netanyahu (Photo: Reuven Castro)
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McConnell visited Israel last week as part of a wider tour of the region, which also included Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
He brought with him a delegation of several Republican senators.
Members of the delegation met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Yitzhak Herzog.
A delegation of Democratic senators led by Senate Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer arrived separately in Israel on the same dates and held similar meetings.
According to a report on the American website "Punch Ball", the Democratic senators expressed to Netanyahu their opposition to his plan to weaken the judicial system.
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Senator McConnell told Wala!
Because the issue of the Israeli government's legal plan hardly came up in the meeting the delegation had with Netanyahu, who emphasized that it was an internal matter.
A source who attended the meeting claimed that McConnell was not being precise and that the issue was brought up extensively in the meeting and that it was Netanyahu himself who brought it up.
"I don't have a position that I'm willing to express publicly on this issue (of the legal coup, BR)," McConnell said.
The senior Republican senator added: "This is a matter that the citizens of Israel will have to solve on their own without American influence. It is none of my business and I do not need to give Israel advice on how to solve it."
"The legal revolution is a matter that the citizens of Israel will have to solve by themselves without American influence" (Photo: Reuters)
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The big picture
Many Democratic lawmakers who are considered supporters of Israel have in recent weeks publicly expressed their concern about the Israeli government's plan to weaken the judicial system and the effect it may have on relations between Israel and the United States.
President Joe Biden himself spoke a few weeks ago in the New York Times and said that fundamental changes such as those included in Netanyahu's legal plan should be accepted by a broad consensus in order to gain public legitimacy.
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