The news recently has been filled with stories about protests in Israel in response to the government’s recent legislation to curb the power of the Israeli Supreme Court. We’ll discuss the situation in Israel, comparable circumstances in other countries and the current efforts by the U.S. Congress to establish parameters governing Supreme Court Justices.
Here are a couple of relevant articles (there are lots of them):
Underlaying Israel’s identity/judicial crisis is the more fundamental issue of the occupation. The most important question for all Americans is our accountability for actions of Israeli extremists in the West Bank.
See Kristof, “With Israel, It’s Time to Start Discussing the Unmentionable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/opinion/israel-military-aid.html
A good framing of America’s core interest comes from Marvin Ott: “…….Despite much rhetoric to the contrary, Israel had (and has) relatively little strategic importance for the U.S. Israel’s durable salience in American foreign policy has been largely, though not entirely, a product of U.S. domestic politics….” https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/opinion/offshore/strategic-choices/article_4f2c41a8-2a21-11ee-bd99-df759bdabf2c.html
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