WASHINGTON — Thomas R. Nides, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, was talking in usually colourful style with reference to the Israeli authorities’s divisive plan to cut back the facility of the judiciary.
U.S. officers had addressed the topic with cautious diplomatic language, utilizing phrases like shared values and consensus constructing, in hopes of avoiding a backlash inside Israel.
However when Mr. Nides was requested about it throughout a podcast in February, he reached for a catchy metaphor to convey the…
