Unlikely: It is no coincidence that the EU opened its "concern" statement with a half-apology stating that "the specific arrangements related to judicial reform and its scope will be determined by the Israelis."
The EU, Britain, the United States, and the other countries that preach to Israelis know that they are interfering in its internal affairs, contrary to every international norm.
EU headquarters in Brussels, photo: GettyImages
After all, Israel didn't say a word to the Americans about the invasion of the Capitol, not to the Europeans about the shocking corruption affair in their parliament, and not to the British about replacing three prime ministers in a few months.
We know our place and do not put ourselves in the position of educators of the world. But our friends, and they really are our friends, for some reason allow themselves to explain to us about values and morals.
Audacity of the highest order
This is audacity of the highest order. All those eye-openers in Western countries know this, so they apologize first. Because the political world knows how to distinguish between substantive content and headlines.
Anyone who devoted a minute in the various foreign ministries to the "limited grounds of reasonableness" saw that its legislation had a very limited effect on the conduct of Israeli democracy.
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Second, even the present, and especially the past of all the preachers at the gate, does not put them in a place that allows them to say a word to the Jewish people about how to build checks and balances in its democracy.
In the ages when each of these nations slaughtered the peoples of the world as part of global campaigns of conquest, the Jewish Talmud Torah learned about "Thou shalt not kill."
Know how to manage
And while each of these countries was torn apart by bloody internal wars – usually over power and power – and only occasionally over values, the Jewish people knew how to run their communities with internal courts and a magnificent legal system for its time, and even today.
EU Headquarters in Brussels,
Therefore, dear friends, you are not in a place to educate us, and it is time for you to stick your nose out of our streets. We manage on our own.
Indeed, Israel is hotly contested internally. But it exists, a brief reminder, only because you were not enlightened enough to allow us to live with you. So quiet.
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