Minister Amichai Chikli from the Likud was a guest Tuesday morning on the "Kol Barama" radio station after a stormy night in the Knesset during which the law to repeal what English publications are calling the โReasonableness Clauseโ was passed in the first reading. For background, Israeli courts have used something referred to as the "Reasonableness" standard to determine if a law, or policy is legal. Many in the government have argued for years that the term and practice is inherently subjective and not rooted in law, but in opinion. Most recently, the standard was used to bar Aryeh Deri from becoming a minister based on a recent criminal case in which Deri plead guilty. The court argued that it was reasonable to assume that Deri's plea included a ban on becoming a minister.
When asked about the talks at the president's house once again, Chikli said โIt is not relevant, today's bills are not far-reaching and there is no need for it. The wording of the president's speech two days ago was too dramatic for the issues at hand. On Yair Lapidโs statements against the bills being passed, he said: "Yair is one of the most harmful politicians who has arisen in the history of the State of Israel, an extreme and childish person."
Minister Chikli: The US incites the protest in Israel, Biden is coordinated with Lapid & Barak.@StateDept @USAmbIsrael pic.twitter.com/XKDu9ijSeZ
โ Idan Landau (@idanlandau) July 11, 2023
Chikli also commented on the statements of the President of the United States Joe Biden, who was interviewed earlier this week by CNN and said that "Netanyahu has some of the most extreme government members I have ever seen, Smotrich and Ben Gvir are part of the problem in the West Bank." President Biden's statements are timed with Lapid and Ehud Barak," Chikli said. "Biden's environment coordinates with them every time they want to inflame the protests in Israel."
Biden also said in an attack on Netanyahu that "I think itโs a mistake to think as some members of his cabinet, and this is one of the most extreme members of cabinets that I have seen. And I go all the way back to Golda Meir and all. Not that she was extreme, but I go back to that era.โ
ืชืืืกื ืืืืืืช ืฉื ืืื ืจืืืกืืื. ืืืืื ืืืชื ืืืช ืจืืื ืืืจืืื ืคืฉืืขื ืืืืจืื ืืืืืื ืืืืื ืืกืืจ ืืฆืืืืจื ืืืกืื ืืื ืืื. ืขืื ื ืงืืืช ืฉืคื ืืงืจืืืจื ืืขืืืื ืฉื ืกืืืจ ืืงื ืืืืก ืืืื ืืจืง.
โ ืขืืืื ืฉืืงืื - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) July 11, 2023
Biden further added that while he thinks โIsrael is not all to blame for the latest uptick in violence in the West Bank, they are a part of the problem, particularly those individuals in the cabinet who think โwe can settle anywhere we wantโ, and that the Palestinians have no right to be here.โ
Biden is becoming the most anti Israel president ever. Itโs ABBAs and the Palestinian Authority thats an extreme,violent terrorist dictatorship which pays Arabs to murder Jews, names schools & streets after Jewkillers and PM Shtayeh and ABBAs praises them as martyrs and heroes. https://t.co/0kAjeqJx4N
โ Morton Klein (@MortonAKlein7) July 10, 2023
Bidenโs statements came after he also mentioned that the Saudi-Israeli normalization process has a long way to go. They also come less than two weeks after US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said in his conversation with the Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen that "there will be no normalization with Saudi Arabia as long as your backyard is on fire." Referring both to the riots and arson by extreme right-wing activists in Hawara after numerous Palestinian terrorist attacks and the Israel anti-government protests.
