The Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, has asked this Sunday the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, not to decide for the Israeli people after the president conveyed on Saturday his support on behalf of the Socialist International for the protests against the controversial judicial reform in Israel, considered by its critics as an attack on the balance of powers.
"No foreign official will decide for the Israeli people, and I am sure that this was not Sánchez's intention", the Foreign Minister, recently arrived precisely from a visit to Spain where he met, among others, with his counterpart José Manuel Albares, on his Twitter account.
The minister was referring to the video broadcast in front of some 200,000 demonstrators in the last protest last night against the reform gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv in which Sánchez, also president of the Socialist International, recalled that it "has always fought for freedom, equality, justice and democracy", "values that we cannot take for granted and that we have to promote and defend on a daily basis".
"As such, now, as always, socialist internationalists support the people of Israel with solidarity. Dear friends, you will always find ways to fight for democracy," Sánchez asserted.
In response, Cohen defended his personal support for the reform proposal, as a member of the main party of the Israeli government coalition, Likud, and attacked the protesters, understanding that "they do not have any kind of limits, between which This includes attempts to damage our (Israel's) international image."
"As a supporter of the reform, I have no doubt that it will strengthen democracy and balance the branches of government," he concluded.
The judicial reform is currently paralyzed in the middle of a consensus process organized by the Israeli prime minister and main promoter of it, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the recommendation of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.
Other international leaders, such as the president of the United States, Joe Biden, or the French president, Emmanuel Macron, have also expressed their concern with this proposal, which, broadly speaking, would grant the government unusual powers over the actions of the country's courts.
However, this Sunday the ordinary sessions of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, are scheduled to resume, and the opposition fears that the parties that support Netanyahu's coalition, particularly the extreme right, will reopen the legislative process of the reform.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
