Why Has Biden Betrayed Israel? Look at His New Special Counsel

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The president changes, and the government rolls on. We learned that when the “deep state” did all it could to impede President Trump’s agenda, and that deep state is still in place, albeit with a more compliant occupant of the Oval Office, and it is still running things. One of its key denizens just got a promotion.

On Friday, counterterror analyst Noor Dahri noted that “Maher Bitar has been appointed as president #Biden‘s special counsel. He also serves as the director of intelligence and defense programs in the #UnitedStates National Security Council.” This explains a great deal of why the Biden regime has just betrayed Israel in its hour of deepest need.

Back when he was a student at Georgetown University, Bitar was president of that university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, SJP has emerged as one of the most strident and actively menacing pro-Hamas groups on college and university campuses nationwide. A photo has emerged of young Bitar in his student days, dressed all in black and sporting a keffiyeh, raising a clenched fist in a room decorated with a sign reading “Divest From Israeli Apartheid.”

The term “apartheid” comes from South Africa, where it referred to a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was in place from 1948 to 1991. The word itself means “separateness,” and South Africa instituted numerous laws to keep the races apart in schools, workplaces, and areas where the public gathered, such as beaches.

There is absolutely nothing like this in Israel. As political analyst Hugh Fitzgerald has explained, “In Israel, Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the Knesset, go abroad as ambassadors. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs work in the same factories and offices, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras, act in the same films, are treated in the same hospitals by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel, and attend the same classes in the same universities. Jews and Arabs own restaurants and start high-tech businesses together. The only difference in their treatment is that Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military.”

There is no sign, however, that Bitar has changed his views. He likely holds the views enunciated on the National Students for Justice in Palestine website: the site states that it is “supporting over two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island, we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation.”

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