After Three-Year Hiatus, USAID Resumes Aid to ‘Palestinians’

Middle East Monitor reported Thursday that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will start working once again in the “Palestinian” territories, after not doing so for three years. What has changed? Has the Palestinian Authority ended its Pay-For-Slay program of paying jihad terrorists and their families? No. Has it ended its genocidal incitement? No. It’s just that Biden’s handlers don’t care about any of that.

It was the “Palestinians’” genocidal jihadi intransigence that led former President Trump to suspend USAID activities in the “Palestinian” territories in 2018. But now Old Joe Biden’s handlers are in the White House, including an astonishing gaggle of inveterate haters of Israel, and that means that it’s time once again for American taxpayers to subsidize the “Palestinian” jihad.

The director of the Palestinian Water Authority, Mazen Ghoneim, spoke with USAID’s Dana Mansouri Wedneday, after which the Water Authority happily announced: “USAID will resume all of its activities in Palestine and will work in this direction to provide support to vital and humanitarian projects, as an urgent necessity.” Ghoneim added that “USAID is one of our main international partners in the water sector.”

Who would be so dastardly and hard-hearted as to oppose “vital and humanitarian projects,” including initiatives to bring water to the thirsty? Anyone, of course, who recognizes that money is fungible, and that money from American taxpayers given for humanitarian endeavors just free up funds that the “Palestinians” can use for other purposes, such as paying for all those rockets to rain down on Israeli civilians, and for those tunnels that jihadis can use to enter Israel, and suicide vests for those jihadis, and the like. If the “Palestinians” are getting free water and water delivery systems, they have that much more money for their jihad.

Anyone could see this. But Biden’s handlers can’t, or don’t care to. The Biden administration is the most anti-Israel presidency since the founding of the modern State of Israel, and is full of Israel-haters.

Robert Malley, Special Envoy to Iran, has become notorious over the years for his support for Iran’s Islamic regime and pronounced distaste for Israel. The Washington Times revealed in February 2021 that back in July 2019, “Iran’s smooth, English-speaking foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East adviser, in an apparent bid to undermine the Trump team and lay the groundwork for post-Trump relations.”

Malley was a good choice for such an assignment. An Israeli security official noted in February 2008 that Malley “has expressed sympathy to Hamas and Hizbullah and offered accounts of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that don’t jibe with the facts.” Obama dropped Malley in May 2008 after it came to light that he had met with representatives of Hamas, but six months later sent him as an envoy to Egypt and Syria.

Meanwhile, Reema Dodin is a deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. According to the Jerusalem Post, “during the Second Intifada, in 2002, Dodin spoke about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with residents of Lodi, California, saying that ‘suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.’” Also, “in 2001, Dodin took part in a demonstration at UC Berkeley calling for the university to divest from Israel….The demonstrators compared Israel to apartheid South Africa.”

In a similar vein, Biden’s handlers appointed Maher Bitar the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council. In 2006, while a student at Georgetown University, Bitar was a member of the executive board of the viciously pro-jihad, anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine, and was seen dancing in front of a banner that said “Divest from Israel Apartheid.”

The Deputy Secretary of State is Wendy Sherman, who was the lead negotiator of Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. The State Department’s undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights is Uzra Zeya. According to the Jewish News Service, Zeya “worked for the magazine Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and its publishing group, American Educational Trust. The Washington Report has questioned the loyalty American Jews have to the United States; published accusations against the ‘Jewish lobby’; claimed American Jews control the media; and accused the Mossad of perpetrating the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel-Palestine is Hady Amr. In an unhinged 2002 rant, Amr repeated Palestinian jihad propaganda, declaring: “I have news for every Israeli: a very large proportion of the more than 150 million children and youth in the Arab World now have televisions, and they will never, never forget what the Israeli people, the Israeli military and Israeli democracy have done to Palestinian children.”

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy is Colin Kahl. According to Israel Hayom, “Kahl has quite the anti-Israel record. He thinks the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Iraq was 1981 was a mistake. In 2012, he acted to remove recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from the Democratic party’s platform. In 2015, he was among those to formulate the Iran nuclear deal. In 2016, at the end of his term, then-US President Barack Obama tasked him with enlisting support for the anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that determined Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria were a violation of international law.”

Have Biden’s handlers appointed a balancing group of strong supporters of Israel, who will move to prevent this unsavory group (which is larger than just those named here) from disrupting America’s relationship with its strongest, most reliable ally in the West? Is there any brake to the ability of the anti-Israel group in Biden’s administration to force Israel to make potentially life-threatening concessions to the “Palestinian” jihad force. The answer to both questions is no. See now why USAID is resuming operations among the “Palestinians”?

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins―Revised and Expanded Edition. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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