The Election Of President Biden: What Now For Israel? Part 6

Biden’s high-level appointments – Preliminary comment

Clearly, in search of candidates to staff the sizable number of vacant high level positions in his administration, Biden considered first those he worked for him during his Vice-Presidency and those formerly employed by Obama whose work impressed him. He also appointed some science professionals, two of whom happen to be Jewish, one of them is a transgender person. Given Biden’ goal to surround himself with people who represent the diversity of the American society, I am not sure whether this person was a chosen to represent the transgender community.

I gather that by now half of his Cabinet members are of the Jewish faith. In the olden days, such an event would have been seen and taken as an achievement by and for a minority group.

Nowadays, the first question that occurred to me was: Yes, but what kind of Jews are they? So-called “progressives”? Or old –fashioned loyal American Jews who defend Israel against the progressive ones including a number of them in the Reform establishment who by omission or commission aid and abet both the antisemites and the enemies of Israel.

Certainly those who previously worked for Obama are “progressives” because Obama told one of them that he “liked ‘progressives’ and disliked Zionists”.

And I should think that, unless one is a cold-blooded career opportunist who took the job for its future benefits and towards this end, was ready to put up with Obama’s queer views of the Jewish world, and play the progressives’ game, no one who was not progressive, could have stuck it out in Obama’s circle.

And as members of the Obama team, they had no problem in carrying on with Obama’s disastrous foreign policies in the Middle-East.

The second question occurred to me was, whether the substantial number of such Jewish appointments would not inevitably sooner rather later feed the old antisemitic libel about the Jews controlling the government, the media and the finances of the country and end up causing another sharp increase in the rate and gravity of hate crimes committed against the Jewish community in the U.S. and possibly abroad.

Finally, I wondered why American Jews talking about and applauding the number of Jewish appointments to high level positions, they are not instead taking a closer look at those appointed to determine whether these people bode well for either the American Jewish community or for Israel.

On this test, most regretfully, the new Jewish incumbents of the highly sensitive key appointments in foreign affairs and intelligence are the kind that will reprise Obama’s disastrous Middle-East policies concerning Syria, Iraq, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Iran sworn to acquire nuclear warheads and to destroy Israel.

A large number of these folks are scary. If the reader, thinks I am exaggerating, I refer her or him to Joan Swirsky, Joe’s Jews-all hate Jews and Israel, Israpundit, February 1,2021 www.israpundit.org › joes-jews-all-hate-jews-and-israel