The Biden regime’s repeated actions make it abundantly clear which side it is on, and it is not on the side of Israel, despite its protestations to the contrary.
“Israel Tried To Warn Biden Admin About UNRWA. A Top US Official Declined the Meeting, Emails Show.” By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 24, 2024:
When Israel’s ambassador was denied a meeting with the Biden administration in May 2021, he was looking to raise concerns about American funding to the United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency, whose employees went on to participate in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror strike last year, internal government emails show.
Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), declined to take a meeting with Gilad Erdan, then the Israeli ambassador to the United States, when the Jewish state was locked in its 2021 conflict with Hamas, the Washington Free Beacon reported in February, citing internal USAID emails.
A new tranche of scheduling memos from that time shows that Power personally declined to meet with Erdan until the war with Hamas was over. The memos also show Power’s staff warned her that the Israeli ambassador would likely raise concerns about the Biden administration’s decision to restart funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The agency has been engulfed in controversy since reports showed that several of its employees helped Hamas kill more than 1,200 Jews.
The memos indicate that Israel was attempting to warn the Biden administration about UNRWA’s links to Hamas and signal concern with the aid group’s employment of individuals affiliated with the terror group. The United States restarted millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for UNRWA just weeks before Erdan requested the meeting with Power and the 2021 conflict with Hamas broke out.
In the previously unreported scheduling memo, Power says she wants to defer the meeting until Israel inks a ceasefire with Hamas, a move that increased pressure on the Jewish state to scale back its military operations in the Gaza Strip. The Biden administration has employed similar tactics in recent months as it again attempts to pressure Israel into ending its war on Hamas and begin pumping millions of aid dollars into the war torn Gaza Strip.
“Let’s revert after Gaza war (not before),” Power wrote in the margins of the memo prepared by her staff, who had recommended she take the meeting.
The memo informed Power that the Israeli ambassador may “voice concerns about [U.S. government] support for UNRWA,” which could have contributed to the USAID leader’s hesitance to discuss the issue.
Power’s staffers eventually informed their colleagues in the region that the meeting would not take place….
Wellington says
Samantha Power is a fool, serving as US Ambassador to Useless Nations under the more than useless Obama Administration. Unfortunately, she has been one of many highly placed fools in the American government and is still serving in a destructive capacity, presently as head of the largely self-immolating USAID.
Not surprisingly at all she received her undergraduate degree from Yale and her law degree from Harvard (N.B., there was a time when Ivy League graduates were sterling, wise and patriotic Americans; sadly, those times are long gone and Samantha Power and others like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are evidence of this precipitous fall from grace where the once deservedly vaunted Ivy League Eight have been concerned).
America is now directed largely, not entirely but largely, by fools, nincompoops, a plethora of DEI jokers (e.g., Karine Jean-Pierre), control-freaks, incompetents aplenty, outright liars, your standard avaricious people and an assortment of other deficient human beings who are exactly the kind of people the Founding Fathers of America hoped would never be in charge of America, though feared could be.
Well, such jokers are in charge now for the most part. Like Samantha Power. Oh yeah, long live Israel IN SPITE of the Biden Administration and people like Power.
To the extent that America becomes lost, the world becomes lost. One knows this or should know it. America thanks to overeducated idiots like Power is being lost at present at an accelerating rate.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
How I wish that I could disagree – I cannot.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She’s not a full. I consider this bunch completely venal, who’re doing everything that they’re doing deliberately, b’cos they wanna destroy this country
࿗Infidel࿘ says
fool, not full. Dunno what’s up w/ my typing these days ?
somehistory says
Whatever it is, is ‘up’ with mine, too.
gravenimage says
I knew what you meant, Infidel.
Wellington says
Nothing could be more foolish than Americans wanting to destroy America.
somehistory says
The arsonist who sets fire to his own house, and then goes to bed.
angelo barbato says
Not surprising at all. The Dems siding with Hamas started under the Obama regime and it’s continuing under corpse,s watch.
Jumpmaster173rd says
Very, very well stated…..couldn’t agree more.
Cynthia says
She has always been an anti Semite as has been the State Department. You are correct that we are now led by a ship of fools. They have no knowledge of the real world, only ideology. This is exactly what is happening on the college campuses now. If only they could spend time in terrorist run Gaza and enjoy the life of subjugation and violence there.
jerry glenn says
USA surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
gravenimage says
Israel’s ambassador tried to warn Biden regime about UNRWA’s Hamas ties, but was denied a meeting
…………………………………
Just appalling. And now Biden demanding that Israel offer the murderous Hamas a deal is quietly acknowlwdging Hamas as legitimate leadership. Just sickening.