Boy, is the rot running deep at the State Department — and you can thank President Biden and his old boss, ex-prez Barack Obama.
Start with the 100-plus staffers at State and the US Agency for International Development who just signed on to a memo blasting Biden for “spreading misinformation” on the Israel-Hamas war and accusing Jerusalem of “war crimes.”
They demand the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza but also claim Israel is holding Palestinian “hostages.”
And while the memo went out through a confidential internal State “dissent” channel, the dissenters plainly leaked it to the press (in violation of department rules), seeking to feed a storyline of “experts” calling out the 80-year-old Biden.
Yes, State has a longstanding “Arabist” bias (it advised President Harry Truman against recognizing Israel back in 1948), but under Biden and Obama before him its top ranks have been flooded with venomously anti-Israel hires.
Heck, hot on Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter-spree, Secretary of State Antony Blinken lunged to urge a cease-fire that would’ve left the terror group free to wage new attacks: “I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire,” he tweeted a day after the carnage.
Blinken soon deleted that tweet, but it made his instincts plain.
The Obama and Biden teams also hired pro-Iranian experts with actual ties to Tehran.
Robert Malley, whose unofficial godfather was Palestine Liberation Organization terror leader Yasser Arafat and who has blasted Israel’s treatment of Arabs, was a key negotiator of the disastrous 2015 Iran nuclear deal, providing billions for Tehran.
Biden again made him special envoy for Iran, the ultimate mastermind of the Oct. 7 atrocities.
Yet Malley lost his security clearances this year, and got placed on leave for mishandling classified information; suspicions abound that he brought in other possible Iranian agents still serving in government.
Such as one-time Malley adviser, Iranian-born Ariane Tabatabai, who was part of a program with Tehran’s Foreign Ministry to influence nuclear negotiations with Washington and improve Iran’s image, per leaked documents.
A new report says she also sought to tarnish the Mojahedin-e Khalq, a key Iranian resistance group.
Tabatabai is now a top Pentagon aide and somehow retained her security clearance and position.
Clearly, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, along with pro-Hamas and pro-Iran sympathy, run deep through the ranks of this administration — which explains the dissent over what should be universal support for destroying Hamas among people who are supposed to know better.
And their ability to shape policy is downright scary.
Heck, Biden not only refuses to answer attacks by Iran’s proxy terror groups on US forces with the strong force required, he just put another $10 billion in Tehran’s pockets by continuing a sanctions waiver.
Biden’s own foreign-policy instincts are beyond sad (he’s still calling his Afghan bugout a “success”), but much of his administration is staffed by people whose own beliefs are profoundly anti-American.