Weakening Israel’s high court is a top coalition priority
“I guess we won’t break Churchill’s record after all,” observed a source in prime minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s office, after early results from the US midterm elections shattered expectations of a Republican majority in both chambers of Congress.
Like the UK’s iconic World War II leader, Netanyahu has spoken before both houses of Congress no less than three times. The most recent and controversial of the three speeches was delivered in 2015, at the invitation of the Republican majority, in the teeth of President Barack Obama.
That speech, whose entire purpose was to circumvent President Obama and sway public opinion against his nuclear deal with Iran, Biden pointedly absented himself, leaving his seat empty. But Biden the vice president is not Biden the president.
“Bibi, I don’t agree with a thing you said, but I love you,” Biden recounted telling Netanyahu once, highlighting their personal friendship, despite the unbridgeable ideological divide between the Democratic president and the conservative prime minister.
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