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Washington’s Money and Actions Fuel Islamic Jihad
by Clare M. Lopez
November 2024
For a short time in October 2024, media attention swirled around a Top Secret intelligence leak from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency about a possible Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran. The leak definitely happened but the leaker was never identified publicly, and by the time of the November 2024 election, this story had disappeared from the headlines. It’s worth noting here, however, because it is of a pattern in a series of behavior and statements emanating from the Biden-Harris administration that seek to control Israel’s defensive military operations against HAMAS, Hizballah, and Iran.
“US investigates leak on intelligence about Israel's Iran attack plans” by Reuters, October 20, 2024
“The US is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s Iran attack plan” by Zeke Miller, Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker, and Tara Copp at Associated Press, October 20, 2024
“ONE BILLION DOLLARS: Terrorist Org UNRWA Has Misused More Than One Billion Dollars in U.S. Taxpayer Aid Sent to Gaza Since October 2023 by Biden-Harris” by Pam Geller, October 10, 2024
“US urges Israel to rethink anti-UNRWA laws, warning millions at risk of ‘catastrophe’” by Jacob Magid at Times of Israel, 29 October 2024
“UH OH: Kamala Harris Caught Happily Mingling With Terror-Loving Iranian Regime Operative” by Cullen Linebarger at Gateway Pundit, October 13, 2024
“TSA Bestows Award on Islamist Group Blacklisted by Executive Branch” by Benjamin Baird at Middle East Forum’s ‘Focus on Western Islamism’, October 18, 2024
“DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refuses to answer questions about Afghan national accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack” by Victor Nava at New York Post, October 10, 2024
“Kash Patel: Weaponized Neglect – How Kamala Harris’ National Security Failures Empowered Iran’s Terror Machine” by Kash Patel at Gateway Pundit, October 5, 2024
“A Year After 10/7: Radical Professors, Programs Were Funded by Federal Grants” at Open the Books, October 16, 2024
Washington’s Money and Actions Fuel Islamic Jihad
by Clare M. Lopez
November 2024
For a short time in October 2024, media attention swirled around a Top Secret intelligence leak from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency about a possible Israeli retaliatory strike against Iran. The leak definitely happened but the leaker was never identified publicly, and by the time of the November 2024 election, this story had disappeared from the headlines. It’s worth noting here, however, because it is of a pattern in a series of behavior and statements emanating from the Biden-Harris administration that seek to control Israel’s defensive military operations against HAMAS, Hizballah, and Iran.
“US investigates leak on intelligence about Israel's Iran attack plans” by Reuters, October 20, 2024
“The US is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s Iran attack plan” by Zeke Miller, Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker, and Tara Copp at Associated Press, October 20, 2024
- Classified documents marked Top Secret from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were leaked to the online Telegram app to a channel located inside Iran. Documents purported to show satellite imagery of Israeli planes loading missiles that were assessed as intended for an Israeli strike against Iran. Speculation about the possible leaker swirled but that leaker was never identified publicly although Speaker Mike Johnson said that Congress would be investigating. With the 5 November 2024 election, this story disappeared from the headlines.
“ONE BILLION DOLLARS: Terrorist Org UNRWA Has Misused More Than One Billion Dollars in U.S. Taxpayer Aid Sent to Gaza Since October 2023 by Biden-Harris” by Pam Geller, October 10, 2024
“US urges Israel to rethink anti-UNRWA laws, warning millions at risk of ‘catastrophe’” by Jacob Magid at Times of Israel, 29 October 2024
- Despite knowing that UNRWA operates in close collaboration with HAMAS in Gaza, the Biden administration still criticizes Israel’s recently-passed laws that ban UNRWA from operating in Israeli territory and bar Israeli officials from contact with UNRWA.
“UH OH: Kamala Harris Caught Happily Mingling With Terror-Loving Iranian Regime Operative” by Cullen Linebarger at Gateway Pundit, October 13, 2024
- This was in the final weeks of the November 2024 presidential election campaign, so it may be hoped that some good briefings for the incoming Trump team may help avoid similar stories in coming years.
“TSA Bestows Award on Islamist Group Blacklisted by Executive Branch” by Benjamin Baird at Middle East Forum’s ‘Focus on Western Islamism’, October 18, 2024
- The Transportation Security Administration awarded the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) its annual “Disability and Multicultural Coalitions Award” in late September 2024. Unfortunately, neither TSA nor the MEF appears to understand the Islamic doctrinal obligation to wage jihad against non-Muslims. To wage jihad is not “Islamist”: it is mainstream, normative, orthodox Islamic doctrine.
“DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refuses to answer questions about Afghan national accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack” by Victor Nava at New York Post, October 10, 2024
- More here: “Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan accused of Election Day terror plot” by Adam Shaw & Jacqui Heinrich at Fox News, October 10, 2024
- DHS Secretary Mayorkas knows full well there has been a dangerous lack of serious background vetting on thousands of Afghans brought into the U.S. after our disastrous flight out of Afghanistan in August 2021. While it’s good to know this particular plot was disrupted, in light of repeated warnings about other terror plots and “lights blinking red” from other national security officials like FBI Director Christopher Wray, it should be obvious the threats are still out there and Mayorkas’ refusal to address this critical issue is reprehensible.
“Kash Patel: Weaponized Neglect – How Kamala Harris’ National Security Failures Empowered Iran’s Terror Machine” by Kash Patel at Gateway Pundit, October 5, 2024
- Kash Patel is a very credible source. Here he condemns the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to take any serious steps to investigate thoroughly and transparently the open and repeated assassination threats from the Iranian regime – what can only be called a willful abrogation of duty. The period between Donald Trump’s election victory on 5 November 2024 and his inauguration on 20 January 2025 is a dangerous window of vulnerability, when the Biden-Harris administration is a lame duck and before a new Trump administration will be able to take office.
“A Year After 10/7: Radical Professors, Programs Were Funded by Federal Grants” at Open the Books, October 16, 2024
- As we gird for possible chaos on U.S. streets and campuses post-November 5, but before Inauguration Day in January 2025, it’s important to investigate where funding for some of that chaos on the campuses of some of our top universities may be coming from. Much of it comes from abroad – Middle Eastern money that funds Middle East study programs – but millions more come from USG federal grants that go to programs and professors that openly promote anti-American, anti-Israel, and openly antisemitic views.