McConnell, who visited Israel last week as part of a Senate delegation of Republicans and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, told Axios’ Barak Ravid that the issue of the Israeli government’s judicial plan hardly came up in the meetings in Jerusalem and stressed this was a domestic issue.
“I don't have an opinion I'm willing to express about it," he said in an interview this week.
"This is something the citizens of Israel are going to have to sort out for themselves without any American influence. … It isn’t any of my business to give Israelis advice about how to sort this out," he added.
McConnell’s view differs from that of the Biden administration and the Democrats, who have been vocal about their opposition to the judicial reform. READ MORE
