Posted on 01/26/2021 6:39:15 AM PST by SJackson
From calling for the destruction of Israel to the National Security Council.
"Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for This Dangerous Group?" an op-ed in the Washington Post had asked.
The group was the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a BDS anti-Israel hate group whose conferences had a history of antisemitism, supporting Hamas and the murder of Jews.
Maher Bitar, one of the executive board members of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the principal organizers of the 2006 conference which was being hosted by Georgetown University's SJP hate group. A photo appears to show him dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid”.
Despite protests from Jewish groups, the Georgetown BDS conference went ahead
Now, Biden has picked Maher Bitar as the Senior Director for Intelligence on the NSC.
In 2006, the American Jewish Committee was pleading with Georgetown to distance itself from the anti-Israel hate of PSM and SJP. Now the anti-Israel hate occupies the top of the foreign policy establishment and is set to define the foreign policy of the Biden administration.
In his new position, the former anti-Israel activist will coordinate intelligence between the White House and the intelligence community, receiving material from intelligence agencies, informing the intelligence community of White House policy, and deciding who gets access to secret information. The office also contains some of the most classified information around.
The job of Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council is supposed to go to an intelligence professional. How did an anti-Israel activist go from helping host a conference for an organization whose speakers have supported Islamic terrorism to a top intelligence job?
At the PSM conference in Georgetown, Bitar had run a sessiondescribing how to best demonize Israel. Next year, he facilitated a Palestinian Student Society summit addressed by Joseph Massad who had called Israel a "Jewish supremacist state" and praised terrorism.
Massad had also argued that the idea that "any manifestation of hatred against Jews in any geographic location on Earth and in any historical period is 'anti-Semitism' smacks of a gross misunderstanding of the European history of anti-Semitism."
A few years later, Bitar could be found presenting at a Sabeel conference featuring some of the worst bigots like Rebecca Vilkomerson of JVP ,who had invited a terrorist to address the BDS hate group, and Richard Falk, who had endorsed a book which wondered whether “Hitler might have been right after all”.
Maher Bitar went to work for UNRWA, interned at the misnamed and militantly anti-Israel
Foundation for Middle East Peace, and and studied at Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre, writing papers on the so-called 'Nakba' and on 'Palestinian' activism. He appeared to describe Israel’s security barrier as a “segregation wall”
Israel's "political existence as a state is the cause for Palestinian dispossession and statelessness," Bitar wrote in one paper. “Israel’s rejection of their right to return remains the main obstacle to finding a durable solution.”
The so-called ‘right to return’ would mean the destruction of Israel.
He helped assemble a BADIL publication: a BDS hate group which seeks to eliminate Israel through the ‘right of return’ and which has opposed bans on working with terrorists.
The issue in question denounced “Jewish colonization”
And yet before long, Bitar could be found working for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. From there he went on to serve as the NSC’s Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs and as Samantha Power’s Deputy at the UN. In under a decade, Bitar had gone from anti-Israel activism through the private network of BDS organizations to key positions shaping American intelligence and foreign policy at the National Security Council and the UN.
Even while Bitar was engaged in anti-Israel activism, he was also volunteering for the Obama campaign, and working for the UN. He started working for the State Department’s Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace as an extern while studying for his JD at Georgetown.
In 2016, Bitar came back to Georgetown to tell students that "those of you who might feel conflicted about or even disagree with American policy and want to change it" could do it.
When President Trump was elected, Bitar became the general counsel to House Intelligence Committee Democrats, serving as the top legal adviser to Rep. Adam Schiff and playing a key role in the first Democrat attempt to impeach President Trump. Now he’s back at the NSC.
Bitar’s rise through the ranks speaks to the abandonment of Israel by the Democrats and the ineptitude of pro-Israel advocates at fighting the personnel battles that define the government.
During the Obama administration, organizations that claimed to be advocating for Israel would come out to D.C. and take pride in receiving a personal briefing from Bitar about Israel’s security without having a clue about who Bitar was or how hard he must have been laughing at them.
Policy battles aren’t won at the executive level, but at the personnel level. The Left keeps winning policy battles even when moderates and conservatives win elections because it understands that having its people in a position to make policy matters more than elections.
Obama had put the author of "Ethnic Cleansing and the Falling Apart of Palestinian Society" in charge of the NSC desk on Israel. Biden put him in charge of NSC intelligence.
Israel will accordingly return to its old Obama understanding that it can no longer share the truly sensitive intelligence with its American counterparts because the NSC is once again tainted.
But the tainting of the NSC has larger implications that go far beyond Israel.
The Obama administration initially began spying on members of Congress who were speaking to Prime Minister Netanyahu after monitoring any effort to take out Iran’s nuclear program.
Pro-Israel legislators should once again expect to be spied on by the Biden administration.
The NSC was a key gateway for Obama’s surveillance of opposition politicians. Putting the right people in place at the NSC will be crucial to protecting the next wave of illegal surveillance.
And any effort by Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear program with its new Arab allies will be closely monitored and sabotaged by the Obama veterans who are back in charge of the NSC.
At the 2006 Georgetown anti-Israel conference, Bitar was advising attendees on how to infiltrate and blend in. Now that he has reached a career pinnacle at the NSC, he had the honor of being profiled by Politico as a “Palestinian”. But earlier versions of Bitar's story had him being "of Palestinian and Egyptian descent" and claiming "family roots [that] trace back to Palestine".
Bitar claimed that his family were “refugees”.
At the PSS summit, he described the group as those "who actively identify as Palestinian because of a shared national, historical, and cultural experience".
The dirty little secret of the ‘Palestinian’ myth is that its identity is imaginary.
The radicalism of the Democrats and their abandonment of the Jewish State however are all too real. That’s how Maher Bitar went from anti-Israel activism, from calling for the destruction of Israel, to the Israel desk at the NSC, and then the top policy intelligence position at the NSC.
"Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for This Dangerous Group?” a Washington Post op-ed had asked in 2006. The question now is why are Joe Biden and the Democrats?
And what do pro-Israel groups intend to do about it?
Biden is like a senile Hitler.
Well, the “Commie chickens have come back to their Democrat Party/administration roosts”.
let’s get rid of the adjunct stuff first. Richard Falk - one of the most vile/evil Marxists in the legal profession, was outted as a “Marxist” in an issue of “The Guardian”, US maoist weekly, concerning him, Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnett re the 2nd annual Socialist Scholars Conference, 1984. YOu can find the direct paragraph/quote at www.keywiki.org, search for the 1983 or 1984 “Socialist Scholars Conference” or just under his name (It will appear in a blue-link and take you to articles about him).
Falk was also a top communist lawyer in the pro-Hanoi “Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam”, a CPUSA created group that was literally a Party front, a professor of law at the leftist Princeton Law School, a key UN “raparteur” on the Middle East, etc.
His record of supporting CPUSA, SWP and even Workers World Party fronts and causes is massive and should be found at www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetworks.org.
Piasa and the writer Greenfield have it right. What we have is a reconstruction (but actually a covert on-going) Obama/Powers/Jarrett/Rice/Rhodes/Malley anti-Israel cabal of mixed Marxists/Communists/pro-PLO/Fatah, and just plain anti-US foreign policy govt officials.
Obama had this covert group/network throughout his administrations and it showed up in his/Administration’s hostility to PM Netanyahu and Israel in general from 2009-2016, and now remerging like a 17 year Cicada to destroy Pres. Trump’s pioneering peace efforts in the Middle East, the destroying of the Islamic (ISIS) caliphate, the killing of Iran’s top terrorist in the Middle East (Suleimani) and to reverse US efforts to stop Iranian/proxy-Houthi aggression and expansion in Yemen.
Biden the brain-damaged, is just following his master’s plans to cripple Israel and force it to make concessions to the Jihadists of Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah, as well as Syria and Iran. Kamala Harris, as a “Red Diaper Baby”, is fine in going along with this anti-Israel policy. Why not? She’ll inherit it when Biden is in a padded cell at home, dribbling oatmeal down his chin and asking what state he’s in (besides the state of confusion and dementia).
Guys like Bitar and the old Obama Gang have either been appointed or nominated to every keep national security agency/department in the US government, and the aim of Obama/Biden/Harris is to make America into a second rate nation, reverse its gains in both national and international security moves and agreements, and to let Iran and Red China rule the Middle East, SE/Eastern/Southern Asia, a good part of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and even ports throughout Africa, the Pacific and possibly Latin America.
Bitar is only one of a number of these “enemies of freedom” who are now embedding themselves in the flesh of America like an Ebola disease and blood-sucking leech.
Consider the CIA targeted for compromise (Haspel? don’t know whether she can maintain any independence for it with Biden/Harris and Schiff/Swalswell running the show; Wray at the FBI is useless; the head of DHS is a dangerous person; the head of DOJ’s national security divisions are weak to compromised; the IRS may be back in action against conservatives but definitely will ignore leftists like Soros, BLM, Antifa, etc; and the National Security Council is now a home to America’s enemies.
This situation is similar to the appointment of Soviet agents to top security/policy positions in the FDR administration from Alger Hiss, Remington/Coe, Harry Hopkins (I have no doubt that he was working with, if not for, the Soviets), Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, etc., this despite warning from journalists such as Isaac Don Levine (who brought Whitaker Chambers to the White House and A.A. Berle), Military Intelligence, J.W. Hoover/FBI, and some pro-American OSS officers (as versus the Communists in the OSS who sold out Albania, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and nearly Greece/Italy).
It’s going to be a long year but we must urge conservative, trustworthy Senators and Representatives to challenge these nominations, policies and treason, OUT LOUD and on a CONTINUING BASIS. Our country’s existence depends on them doing this.
All this Biden power is in God’s timing. Who would ever thought America would turn its back on Israel in time of need? The Bible said it would happen, all nations will turn . It looks to me like Biden has led us as far from being a friend as possible. We are completely governed by unAmericans. third world banana republic lovers. Not a one able to improve our country but only able to destroy.
As disturbing as it is we can only look up and wait for our redemption. He who is the First and the Last will soon call us home.
Most troubling.
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