Expert in Middle Wast Affairs, Yoram Ettinger, analyzes the impact of the growing clout of Progressive Democrats on President Biden's Middle East policy.

President Biden’s Middle East policy has been impacted by the growing clout of Progressive Democrats, who are determined to shift resources from national security and foreign policy to the domestic arena.  They advocate a Third World-oriented policy while ignoring and oversimplifying the 14-century-old unpredictable, violent, despotic, and non-peaceful intra-Arab and intra-Muslim reality. 

Thus, they criticize pro-Western entities such as Israel, ignoring Israel’s historic and moral track record and Israel’s contribution to the US economy and defense, which outweigh foreign aid. At the same time, they embrace anti-Western rogue entities such as Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority, irrespective of their fanatic and despotic core ideology and intra-Muslim/intra-Arab terroristic track record.

Moreover, the “progressives” have misperceived the tectonic eruptions on the Arab Street as if it reflected an “Arab Spring,” a pursuit of self-determination, human rights, national liberation, and democracy. In fact, it has been an Arab Tsunami; an extension of the intrinsic Middle East violence, hate-education, terrorism, repression, and demonic visions.

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