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Biden admin sending envoy to Israel who has a major anti-Israel problem

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The Biden administration’s effort to promote “deescalation” between Israel and Hamas will now include sending Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr to the region on Wednesday. Amr, however, has taken a stance against U.S.-ally Israel on the conflict even before he stepped foot in the administration and before he is to land in Israel for his latest trip.

Amr, who was born in Beirut, has also been actively working on the Biden administration’s plan to restore U.S. funding to the Palestinians. In a March 1 memo, “The US Palestinian Reset and the Path Forward,” he wrote that “State and USAID are working towards a restart of US assistance to the Palestinians in late March or early April.”

He also indicated that the U.S. would restore contact with the Palestinian Authority, which ceased under former President Donald Trump over continued payments to terrorists and their families.

As the national coordinator of the anti-Israel Middle East Justice Network, Amr once reportedly wrote a year after the September 11 terror attacks that he “was inspired by the Palestinian intifada.” Moreover, Amr previously accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing.”

In 2002, after the head of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Amr reportedly wrote in a column that has since been scrubbed from the internet, “I have news for every Israeli,” warning that Arabs “now have televisions, and they will never, never forget what the Israeli people, the Israeli military and Israeli democracy have done to Palestinian children. And there will be thousands who will seek to avenge these brutal murders of innocents.”

Amr also worked with the Brookings Institution to found their Doha Center. Qatar funded the think tank to the tune of $14.8 million and its Prime Minister and members of its royal family sit on the Brookings advisory board. Qatar is one of the largest sponsors of global terrorism and one of its beneficiaries is Hamas.

In Doha, while working for Brookings, Amr once urged, “Muslim Brotherhood organizations across the Muslim World should be engaged.” 

The State Department and the White House didn’t respond to this reporter’s requests for comment. The story will be updated if and when a response is given.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Wednesday that Amr will be the U.S. official to advocate for the Biden administration’s position on the issue as Hamas continues firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.

“I’ve asked Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hady Amr to go to the region immediately to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders,” Blinken said. “He will bring to bear his decades of experience and in particular he will urge on my behalf and on behalf of President Biden deescalation of violence. We are very focused on this.”

He continued, “The United States remains committed to a two-state solution. This violence takes us further away from that goal. We fully support Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself. We’ve condemned and I condemn again the rocket attacks in the strongest possible terms. We believe Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live with safety and security and we’ll continue to engage with Israelis, Palestinians, and. other regional partners to urge deescalation and to bring calm.”

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Report: Captured Terrorists Confirm Shifa Hospital’s Role as Hamas Hideout

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The Israel Defense Forces released footage alongside a statement on X of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives admitting that a huge amount of terror operatives are hiding in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The depositions are described in the statement as containing “details of Hamas terror infrastructure deeply embedded within the hospital, which is used by senior Hamas operatives for planning and directing terror attacks.”

One associate from Islamic Jihad told interviewers that he estimated that there were as many as 1,000 militants stationed in and around the medical campus, including certain sections that “belong” to his group. The individual described the maternity ward as his organization’s “headquarters.”

According to some of the prisoners in the recordings, the building’s medical residency department is serving as an improvised weapons storage room.

Some of the detainees claimed to have been stationed at the facility for as long as three months, which the Foreign Desk News explains suggests that the terror groups reestablished their positions shortly after Israel withdrew from the facility on November 15.

The hospital is a prime location for terrorists to conduct operations out of because they do not abide by International law, which requires that medical infrastructure be demilitarized during times of conflict. Additionally, any attempt to use them for belligerent activity is supposed to result in negating the statutory protections that they are given. However, “This distinction is important in light of criticism that Jerusalem has received for currently attempting to regain control of what is Gaza’s largest health care facility” according to the Foreign Desk News.

 

 

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