Biden’s handers’ appointments are consistent with the ideology they have espoused.
“In Biden Aid Nominee, Repressive Gulf Monarchy Found Enthusiastic Ally,” by Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon, June 15, 2022:
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top role at the U.S. Agency for International Development has a long history of praising Qatar, the oppressive Gulf state with a shoddy human rights record that includes restrictions on free expression and the criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct.
Tamara Cofman Wittes is slated to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, where the panel will consider her nomination to be an assistant administrator of USAID. If confirmed, she would be responsible for distributing billions of American aid dollars throughout the Middle East.
As a Middle East policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she worked first from 2003 to 2009 and then from 2012 until earlier this month, Wittes lavished praise on Qatar, a repressive nation that discriminates against gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals. Wittes described Qatar’s capital city Doha as a “global gathering place for dialogue” and amplified Qatari leaders’ claims that they support human rights and oppose “extremists who exploit religion to incite violence.”
The Brookings Institution was at the time raking in millions from Qatar—its “Doha Center,” renamed after the organization came under scrutiny for the partnership, had a controversial 14-year run. Wittes’s confirmation hearing comes as the Brookings Institution faces renewed scrutiny over its foreign financial ties. The think tank’s president, retired general John Allen, resigned on Sunday amid news that he is under federal investigation for his alleged role in illegally lobbying for Qatar.
While the Brookings Institution took money from several foreign governments over the past decade, Qatar appears to be its most significant foreign donor, pouring at least $22 million into the think tank between 2013 and 2021, according to congressional financial disclosures and the organization’s annual donor reports….
“Wittes was one of the most bitter opponents of the Abraham Accords. She trashed everyone involved, including and especially Israel,” a senior Republican congressional aide told the Washington Free Beacon.
Wittes quoted articles decrying the deal as misogynistic, a “new Naksa”—referring to the Palestinian word for “setback”—and as a “triumph for authoritarianism.”
“If I were an Arab leader weighing ties with Israel, I would have 2 things in mind,” Wittes wrote on Twitter in September 2020. “1) A promise from [Trump adviser Jared] Kushner now isn’t worth much. Why not wait until after Nov elections? 2) Bibi’s backtracked on his commitments to UAE; his promises aren’t worth much either. Let’s wait & see.”
Wittes argued that the several Gulf states taking steps toward normalization with Israel were engaged in a “betrayal of Palestinian interests” and the agreement would make it more difficult to extract Israeli concessions in return for a peace deal with the Palestinians….
Notwithstanding her extensive writing and tweeting on the subject, Wittes told the Washington Free Beacon days before her confirmation hearing that she supports the Abraham Accords.
“I have never expressed ‘strong opposition to the Abraham Accords,’” Wittes said. “I support the Accords and the profound transformation they have wrought.”…
Wittes also highlighted claims that the Qatari government — which has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including jailing protesters and maintaining abusive workplace conditions for migrant workers – supports human rights and tolerance.
“Qatar deputy PM says Islam, like West, embraces human rights because they’re to benefit of all, esp non-Muslim minorities in Muslim World,” Wittes wrote in 2013.
“Doha’s become global gathering place for dialogue!” she wrote in one 2012 post, adding that Brookings “has partnered w/ Qatar many years.”
The Brookings Institution said Qatar’s donations in 2020 and 2021 were the final payments from a prior fundraising pledge. “Qatar will not be listed as a financial supporter in the 2022 annual report,” a Brookings Institution spokeswoman told the Free Beacon.
mortimer says
Biden has killed the American oil industry on purpose and now he goes to the Gulf states for oil.
TRAITOR!
Wellington says
Seconded. Biden is beyond disgusting, though I think it imperative to be understood that the puppet is filling out Obama’s third term and who, Obama, is really the most disgusting in America in our time.
maria says
Yes but now everyreal patriot must work to stop any kind of voter fraud in midterm elections
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers’ USAID nominee praised Muslim Brotherhood Qatar, opposed Abraham Accords
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Just disgusting–but who can really be surprised?
What else do we know about Tamara Cofman Wittes?
Besides nattering on about the “two state solution” and trying to pretend that President Trump was somehow bad for Israel, she’s also said this:
“The Case for Gender Diversity in National Security”
https://www.lawfareblog.com/case-gender-diversity-national-security
As though that is the main issue here…
Andrew Blackadder says
It truly blows my mind that any Western female, the real ones, all of whom are somewhat, or mostly, feminists demanding that America raise the glass ceiling etc and yet at the same time fall over themselves to defend and speak out on behalf of ANY islamic Nation and mostly those in the Mega Rich Kingdoms of the Middle East where females, real ones, walk around covered in a black garbage bag so the men will not rape them which means these muslim men are admitting they are in fact… rapists…
When I was coming up during the 1960s it was always a safe bet to say that The Left wanted peace and the other guys didnt….Now we have The Left wanting War and The Left denigrating a previous President that wanted ”out of these endless Wars”….Biden bombed Syria two months after sitting in the big Chair..
If Trump had done that it would have been CNN Headline ”News” for weeks, but Trump took Troops OUT of Syria… Old Joe put them back in ,plus some extra..
The World must have shifted slightly off it Axis while everybody was watching the slags saunter down the Red Carpet..