The Election Of President Joe Biden: What Now For Israel? Part 8-1

Biden’s appointments to senior level positions

Biden’s appointments to date, to senior positions dealing with foreign affairs, intelligence and security issues as well as domestic human rights issues reminds me of the old saying which I paraphrased for the subject at hand: Tell me who you nominate and I will tell you what you are. 

[Note: With respect to the appointees identified below, unless otherwise indicated, the sentences or the information in quotation marks are from Joan Swirsky, Joe’s Jews-all hate Jews and Israel, ISRAPUNDIT February 1, 2021.

Secretary of State: (Promotion) Anthony Blinken (Jewish)

If Blinken, then-deputy secretary of state working with Wendy Sherman and Robert Malley was not the Chief architect of the 2015 disaster, excepting Barak Obama, he was the third one.

Insofar as the U.S.-Israel relations are concerned, in a call with the Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi,Blinken reaffirmed “the firm commitment of the U.S. to Israel’s security and to undertake to work closely with Israel to advance peace in the region.” 

On the matter of security, during his senate hearing, he confirmed that the U.S. commitment to the Jewish State’s well-being was “sacrosanct.” It reminded me of Obama’s statement that U.S. has Israel’s back while he exposed her front to Iran and her sides to Hezbollah, and to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Further, and ominously, Blinken along with Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Avril Haine (infra.), are among the cadre of leaders of an advocacy group in Washington-the “Foreign Policy for America”(FPA), which has a very disturbing perspective on Israel: FPA is associated with the repulsive progressive J[udas] Street and is linked to the extremist Israeli organisation B’Tselem who ignores terrorism in Israel.  For further details about FPA – Moshe Phillips, Biden Team’s Blind Spot on Terror, TheJ.ca, December 2, 2020. (Blinken “praised radical anti-Israel JStreet as a ‘constructive force’ and opposed designating the terrorist Iranian IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.”)

 Deputy US Secretary of State: Promoted: Wendy Sherman (Jewish). 

Working with then-Deputy Secretary of State Blinken, Sherman was the chief architect of the disastrous 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. “Invoking her own Judaism, she described the dissent the Obama administration faced over the multilateral accord from the Jewish community as the most ‘painful’ part of the administration efforts to push the deal through.” 

I venture to guess that the reader, who accepts Sherman’s statement at face value, will accept my offer to sell him or her the Pentagon for US $1.00.

Ms.Sherman is fibbing.

Obama and his staff wouldn’t hear about, let alone study, the overwhelming incontrovertible evidence generated by the Iranians themselves that Israel managed to steal. Prime Minister Netanyahu presented it to convince them that Iran fully intended to build an atomic bomb. This was not the first time she negotiated a nuclear deal with a totalitarian government.

Jonathan Tobin, editor of the JNS observed:” While Sherman is clearly an appalling negotiator and a terrible diplomat, she is something of a genius when it comes to gaining favour with Democratic presidents. Indeed, if capitalizing on your mistakes as opposed from learning from them is an art, then she is the Michelangelo of failing upward.”(January 19, 2021)

Sherman is also known to have “praised arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat as ‘the leader of the resistance movement’ and downplayed the PLO suicide bombings…that Arafat engineered.’”