(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Rhetorically, President Biden and his administration treat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing coalition worse than they do the ruling mullahs in Iran. The effect of recent statements by the President and his Ambassador to Israel is for Israelis to see that the U.S. sides with their opposition parties. This is no way to treat a democratic ally and no way to pursue U.S. interests. Whether Israel's proposed reforms would rein in its high court's unusual powers, or tip the balance too far toward British-style parliamentary supremacy, is for Israelis to debate. Which they do, noisily, without Mr. Biden's commentary. U.S. aid to anti-Israel international bodies has resumed, and all of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem is treated as "occupied territory." But how does it advance peace to indulge Palestinians in the belief that Jews are interlopers in Judea and at the Western Wall?
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