Analysis
Netanyahu counts Iran, Sudan as wins following Blinken visit
And Iraq worries about getting caught, again, in US-Israel-Iran crossfire.
Something old, something new
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t welcome the civics lesson by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press conference in Israel last week, but he’ll pocket a big win on Iran, and a so-so win on Sudan, which outweigh the friction on other issues during the visit.
Those "other issues" fall into the categories of something old and something new.
Let’s start with the new: the judicial reform package proposed by Netanyahu’s radical right partners in his governing coalition. The Biden Administration appears to agree with a broad spectrum of Israeli civil society that the reform package is a threat to the independence of the judiciary, Israel’s only true check on the executive branch.
