Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that I’m a translator from English to English.
I try to take complex subjects and make them understandable, first to myself and then to readers — and that is what I want to do here regarding three interrelated questions: Why is Israel’s cabinet trying to crush the country’s Supreme Court?
Why did President Biden tell CNN that “this is one of the most extreme” Israeli cabinets he’d ever seen?
And why did the U.S. ambassador to Israel just say that America is working to prevent Israel from “going off the rails”?.
According to a 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Israel has received the most U.S. foreign assistance of any country in the world since World War II, at $146 billion, not adjusted for inflation.
That’s quite an allowance and one that might have merited a little more respect for the U.S. president from Ben-Gvir, who in his youth was convicted of inciting racism against Arabs. »