Weighing heavily on Biden is the 2024 presidential election. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is in a political bind as he crafts a US response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly pushing through the first part of a divisive judicial overhaul.
new curbs on the Israeli Supreme Court that critics in the US and in mass street protests in Israel have called anti-democratic.and urged work towards a broad consensus. But it offered no hint that Mr Netanyahu’s government could face practical consequences, exposing the limits of Mr Biden’s ability to rein in the long-serving right-wing leader.
Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have quickly accused Mr Biden of meddling in Israel’s domestic affairs. They are appealing in part to a large Christian evangelical following, one of Israel’s strongest US constituencies.
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