In an interview on Saturday, Biden notified Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US-Israeli relationship has never indeed rested on shared interests.
In response to a question from veteran New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, Biden stated that consensus was required for any fundamental change to be sustainable.
The statement stated that the genius of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they both built on strong institutions, checks and balances, and an independent judiciary," according to the statement.
"It is critical to building consensus for fundamental changes to ensure that people buy into them and that they can be sustained."
Friedman interpreted this to mean that Biden was notifying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US-Israeli relationship has never indeed rested on shared interests.
He states that instead, it was always built up from our shared values in a column that appeared on the Times' website one minute after midnight on Sunday.
Friedman says that Biden suggested that whatever Israel does, it should not fundamentally depart from those shared values. Otherwise, we're in a completely different world."
Friedman stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's goal is to strip the Israeli Supreme Court of its independence.
He continued that they "put it instead under Netanyahu's thumb" and that Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza are "not consistent with [US] values."
He also referred to the prime minister's coalition as "ultranationalist" and "ultrareligious," writing that the reforms could "seriously harm Israel's democracy and thus its close ties to America and democracies everywhere."
According to Friedman, it was the first time a US president weighed in on an internal Israeli debate about something as fundamental as the nature of the country's democracy.
If Netanyahu keeps ploughing ahead, he will be ignoring the president of the United States. "That is no small matter," he wrote. In response, Wall Street Journal letters editor Elliot Kaufman tweeted that a snub was in order.
The Law, Constitution, and Justice Committee of the Knesset is scheduled to resume its debate on the reform on Sunday, with a vote to approve the bill for a first reading as early as Monday.
It could be passed in the first reading on Wednesday if the proposed legislation is approved on Monday.