Biden Administration Living In The Past

Arab leaders have come to realize that their Palestinian brethren are victims of the oppression of their own leaders’ corruption and misrule rather than that of the Israelis. They have also come to realize that they can benefit from close ties with the Jewish state and are casting past hubris aside in favor of cooperative ventures.

They are right in putting their own people’s security and prosperity first and many have come to appreciate that Israel is not their enemy, that their future lies with cooperation with Israel, the Start-Up nation, and there is nothing to be gained by perpetuating a faux Palestinian victimhood that has turned them into the world’s professional beggars rather than forging a future for their people.

Sadly, after recent years of positive change, we see signs that the Biden Administration is living in the past. We hear it in statements coming out of the White House and the State Department.

When White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked if the Biden Administration considers Saudi Arabia and Israel important allies, the natural answer should have been an unequivocal yes.

Instead, Psaki stumbled a meandering, “There are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes, one that I think we confirmed at an interagency meeting last week to discuss a range of issues in the Middle East. We’ve only been here three and a half weeks and I think I’m going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give kind of a complete lay-down of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues.”

Cutting through the garbage, her answer was “We don’t know.”

This is utterly disconcerting and gravely troubling for the two leading nations, and America’s greatest allies, in the Middle East, particularly at a time when the radical Iranian mullahs are celebrating the Trump exit. They look on the incoming administration with uncontrolled glee. For them it’s back to the future when they can play the Americans like suckers, as they did with the Obama Administration.