“Some official, I don’t know who he is, I never met him, suggested I should stay out of Israel’s business,” Tom Nides said, referring to Amichai Chikli.
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Nides can chide Israel all he wants, but it would be more effective if he would do so in private. In public, it triggers comments like those of Chikli.
Tom Nides: “What binds us together is this love of democracies and the love of institutions, this is how we are able to defend Israel in the UN.”
Nides noted the rising concern among American Jews, liberal and reform Jews and even conservative Jews that do not agree with the judicial reforms.
Israel at present bans most Palestinian travel through Ben-Gurion for security reasons, even in cases where the Palestinians hold US passports.
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The Biden administration explains that Israel is “a democracy in the Middle East, where there is no other,” Tom Nides said.
Ambassador Thomas Nides expects an announcement soon on whether the number of Israeli applicants who were refused recent requests for US visas had been kept to 3% or fewer.