Will the America-Israel Alliance Survive the Biden Administration? – watchjerusalem.co.il
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JerusalemAmericans have long recognized a fundamental brotherhood that exists between the State of Israel and the United States. The view that Israel has a right to exist in its historic homeland, and should be supported by American power as it faces calls for its destruction, is shared by most American voters. And yet, for the last 12 years, instead of being a unifying force among Americas political class, support for Israel has caused immense contention.
For the last four years, President Donald Trump led the most pro-Israel administration in American history. Before him, President Barack Obama led the most destructive. Now, with Joe Biden taking office, there is every indication that the pendulum will swing once more.
According to Israeli commentator Caroline Glick, the Biden administration is shaping up the be the most hostile U.S. administration ever. Glick made these comments last week after the Biden administration announced that Maher Bitar was appointed to serve as the senior director for Intelligence at the National Security Council.
When there are no fruits to show so early in an administration, it is political appointments that reveal where the government policy is heading. For Israel, several of Bidens picks show that a potentially cold, dark four years are just beginning.
Bitar is a Palestinian American whose history of activism against the State of Israel is well known. As Glick related, Bitar was a former leader of the anti-Semitic, Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Students for Justice in Palestine. In that role, he organized campaigns to delegitimize Israel and once chaired a conference where participants discussed how to indoctrinate Christians to believe that Israel has no right to exist.
Crucially, Bitar made his splash into politics when he formed a role inside the Obama administration as the Israel-Palestinian officer on the National Security Council. He was also a deputy to Samantha Power, Obamas United Nations ambassador who presided over Obamas parting shot at the State of Israel, refusing to veto a powerful anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council a month before Obama left office.
And now Bitar will be holding one of the most powerful positions in the American intelligence community, despite his complete lack of history in the intelligence field. He will ostensibly decide which intelligence is shared with the president. And as Bidens gatekeeper, he will also determine priorities for intelligence operations and collections. As a former National Security Council member told Glick, Bitar will control the information everyone sees. And by controlling the information, he controls the conversation.
Normally, this role is reserved for intelligence officials with a history of dealing with highly sensitive information. Now it is going to a political activist whose main claim to fame is delegitimatizing Israel.
But Bitar is not the only worrying choice for Israel.
Several others from President Obamas Israel-hostile staff have joined Bidens team, particularly those who were involved in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. John Kerry, Jake Sullivan, Wendy Sherman, William Burns are just a small sampling of Obamas nuclear deal team who have made it over to the Biden administration. These people who empowered Iran once are no doubt calling for Iran to be empowered again.
While the details of the nuclear deal are often lost on Americans, not one American ally in the region thought the nuclear deal was a good idea when it was implemented in 2016. Five years later, that consensus hasnt changed.
In fact, there is even relative agreement among many in the Washington think-tank class who are against rushing into a new deal with Iran. Former Obama official Dennis Ross recently admitted that the Trump administrations maximum pressure campaign has certainly created leverage that should not be discounted, advising that Biden should consider seriously the elements of his predecessors approach worth keeping.
Nevertheless, Bidens picks show that he wants a deal with Iran.
Nothing highlights just how desperate he is to empower the fanatical regime in Tehran like the appointment of Robert Malley as his special envoy to Iran.
Naturally, Malley is another Obama veteran. In 2008, he was called in as candidate Barack Obamas foreign policy adviser. However, when it was made public that Malley had met with leaders of the Hamas terrorist group, he was dropped from the team so as to not be a hindrance to Obamas election hopes. True to form, Malley returned to Obamas team after the 2012 election when his ties to terrorists wouldnt hurt at the ballot box. In 2014, he became Obamas senior director of the National Security Council (the position now held by Bitar). In 2015, he became Obamas lead negotiator for the nuclear deal.
His return is a sure sign that Iran can expect another favorable deal. As Jonathan Tobin wrote last month, Malley is Irans ideal candidate for the position for American envoy. Republican Senator Tom Cotton also deplored the choice of Malley, tweeting, Malley has a long track record of sympathy for the Iranian regime & animus towards Israel. The ayatollahs wouldnt believe their luck if he is selected.
Lucky for Iran, Malley was selected.
But not lucky for Israel. His appointment proves that Israel can expect another American deal with Iran. But not a better deal. Iran has said that it expects the U.S. to undo President Trumps financial sanctions and reimburse Iran billions of dollars in lost revenueand that is just the beginning. With Obamas man leading Bidens Iran negotiations, its easy to see Iran getting exactly what it wants.
That the Biden administration would so quickly head back into a deal with Iran is unsurprising considering how critical the deal was to President Obama. As Watch Jerusalem editor Gerald Flurry showed in his article The Barack Obama Mystery, the Iran nuclear deal was not a mistake by the Obama administration where it was fooled by Tehrans negotiators into accepting a bad deal. Instead, the deal was a deliberate attempt to empower Israels chief enemy. It was motivated by President Obamas deep hatred for the Jewish state. In fact, as Mr. Flurry proved, Obamas successful efforts to remove President Trumps national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, revolved around Obamas desire to continue empowering Israels enemy through preserving the nuclear deal.
Michael Flynn aside, President Trump was still able to pause those wicked purposes by exiting the nuclear deal and inflicting suffocating sanctions on the Iranian regime. He also rectified Obamas horrific treatment of Israel by a series of decisions that promoted Israels strength and security. In a sense, President Trumps administration saved the state of Israel from Barack Obamas destructive designs.
Following President Trump, many Israelis hope that a Biden administration would stabilize the alliance. No one expects him to show the same favor toward Israel as President Trump. In fact, many Israelis would be happy with a little less attention on the world scene right now. Israel would be satisfied with a normal American president like George Bush or Bill Clinton.
But that is not going to happen.
Bidens personnel choices show that his policy toward the Jewish state will be the same as Barack Obamas.
This should be a worrying proposition for the State of Israel, but not one that is without hope. As Mr. Flurry wrote in his recent feature, Why I Still Believe Donald Trump Is Coming Back, there will be a return of Mr. Trumps leadership. As Mr. Flurry noted in that article, God has used the unusual presidency of Donald Trump to temporarily save the United States. By extension, God has preserved the brotherhood with the State of Israel.
The bond between America and Israel is founded in biblical history, both nations being modern descendants of the ancient Israelites. Because of that shared biblical history, Israel now finds itself in the cross hairs of Americans own culture wars. One side wants to fundamentally change America and with it crush its connection to Israel; the other side wants to preserve Americas heritage and guard that brotherhood.
Based on biblical prophecy, we know that America and Israel will be saved from the destructive forces. But this saving is only temporary. It is a brief window of time that God is giving so that our nations can wake up to the shared biblical historyand return to the shared God of Israel.
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