Daniel Greenfield
February 14, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog
The
Biden administration responded to protests against its stolen election
by embedding a domestic extremism office into the National Security
Council. The man in charge of making it happen, Joshua Geltzer, had previously denied
that Black Lives Matter was a terrorist threat and had attacked the
Trump administration’s response to Antifa and BLM violence in Portland.
That means that the only domestic extremists the NSC will be fighting are Republicans.
Even
while the Biden administration is preparing to double down on Obama’s
abuse of the national security state to target his political opponents,
it’s also giving real terrorists a pass.
The
motto of Iran’s Houthi Jihadis is, "Allahu Akbar, Death to America,
Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam." The Houthis took
over parts of Yemen as a result of the chaos unleashed by Obama’s
pro-Islamist Arab Spring. Since then they’ve been engaged in a
protracted war while causing a local famine by confiscating food from
the local population.
Last year, the Trump administration had
finally secured the release of three American hostages, Sandra Loli, an
American aid worker who had been held for 3 years, another American who
had been held for a year, and the body of a third American, in exchange
for 240 Houthis, including three dozen Islamic terrorists who had been
trained in the use of missiles and drones by Iran.
Like those launched at the USS Mason.
The
Houthis lived up to their “Death to America” slogan by repeatedly
launching cruise missiles at the USS Mason which had been protecting
shipping in the area. And they lived up to the second half of their
slogan by ethnically cleansing the remaining local Jewish population, locking them up, and confiscating their homes and land. Local reports stated that the Houthis were “cutting off water & electricity to Jewish homes and preventing Jews from purchasing food."
“No Jew would be allowed to stay here,” one of the Jewish refugees said.
The Iran-backed Islamic terrorists fight using 18,000 child soldiers. The soldiers, many abducted, some as young as 10, are taught to hate America and to kill enemies of Iran.
None of this stopped Biden’s State Department from taking the Houthis off the terror list.
“Secretary
Blinken has been clear about undertaking an expeditious review of the
designations of Ansarallah,” the State Department claimed. “After a
comprehensive review, we can confirm that the Secretary intends to
revoke the Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated
Global Terrorist designations of Ansarallah.”
‘Ansarallah’ or
‘Defenders of Allah’ is what the Houthis call themselves. Blinken had
only been confirmed on Tuesday. By next Friday, he had already somehow
completed the “comprehensive review”, amid all the other minor business
like China, Russia, and a global pandemic, and decided that the Islamic
terrorists whose motto is “Death to America” aren’t really terrorists.
How
can the Biden administration deny that Islamic Jihadis backed by Iran
who attacked Americans are terrorists? The State Department claimed that
this, “has nothing to do with our view of the Houthis and their
reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the
kidnapping of American citizens." Not to mention the attacks on the USS
Mason.
But the Biden administration isn’t even going to pretend to care about attacks on our military.
The
Bidenites are claiming that they're taking the Houthis, whom they don't
deny are terrorists, off the list of designated terrorist groups
because of the "humanitarian consequences".
That’s a lie, no
matter how often you hear it in the media, because Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would be
providing licenses to “humanitarian activities conducted by
non-governmental organizations in Yemen and to certain transactions and
activities related to exports to Yemen of critical commodities like food
and medicine.”
That’s despite the fact that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen was caused by the Houthis.
Nevertheless
the media, echoing propaganda from the Iran Lobby and Qatar, a close
terrorist ally of Iran, has falsely claimed that the Houthis are the
victims of the Yemen famine. A number of politicians, mostly Democrats,
but some Republicans, as well as various aid groups, have pushed this
same disinformation campaign about the causes of the Yemen famine.
America
and its allies have spent billions providing food, medicine, and other
humanitarian aid to Yemen. That aid has been seized by the Houthis who
have used it for their own troops or to resell on the black market. This
is a familiar problem from Syria to Somalia, and aid groups have
refused to honestly address their complicity in aiding the terrorists
who caused the crisis.
There’s no money in admitting that the aid
an organization is providing is being seized by the terrorists,
prolonging the conflict and worsening the humanitarian crisis. Some aid
organizations share the same goal as the Houthis of worsening the crisis
because it boosts their donations.
That’s why international aid
organizations don’t want to talk about the Houthis taking their food
donations, or about their use of child soldiers. “It’s a taboo,” an
anonymous aid official had said.
When
Secretary Pompeo announced that the United States was finally
designating the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization, the United
Nations took the lead in claiming that it would cause a humanitarian
crisis. But the UN's World Food Program had already admitted that its food shipments weren't getting to the starving people because the Houthis were intercepting them.
The Middle East director for UNICEF also admitted that the Houthis were seizing food.
An Associated Press investigation found entire
stores seling "cooking oil and flour displaying the U.N. food program’s
WFP logo." The former Houthi education minister said that 15,000 food
baskets that were supposed to go to hungry families instead went to the
Houthi terrorists whom the Biden administration is defending. Massive
amounts of aid have been pumped into Yemen, and the famine has only
grown worse because the Houthis have used starvation as a weapon.
The only way to end the famine is to end Iran’s grip on Yemen through its Houthi terrorists.
That’s
obviously not what Biden or the Democrats have in mind. The loudest
Democrat voices against designating the Houthis as a terrorist group
have a troubling history with Iran.
"Reversing the designation is
an important decision that will save lives and, combined with the
appointment of a Special Envoy, offers hope that President Biden is
committed to bringing the war to an end,” Senator Chris Murphy tweeted.
Murphy had been among the loudest voices against the designation.
And
Murphy had met with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last
year. That same year, he had advocated lowering sanctions on Iran for
“humanitarian reasons”. Biden had also joined the push to use the
pandemic as a pretext for reducing sanctions on the terror state.
That
same year, the Left succeeded in forcing out Rep. Elliot Engel, one of
the few remaining pro-Israel Democrats, and replaced him with the
militantly anti-Israel Rep. Jamaal Bowman, whose election was backed by
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her antisemitic ‘Squad’.
Engel,
who had served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was
replaced by Rep. Gregory Meeks, a strong backer of the Iran Deal. Meeks’
position was cheered by Iran Lobby groups. As far back as 2009, Meeks
had declared at a hearing, “I have developed a tremendous appreciation
for the work of the National Iranian American Council. I am pleased that
we will hear the perspective of NIAC’s President, Mr. Trita Parsi.”
Emails released allegedly showed
Parsi telling Iran's Foreign Minister, "I am having a meeting with
Gilchrest and Meeks, and they asked for our assistance in getting some
communication going between the parliamentarians."
Speaking to
the Islamic Republic News Agency, the official state news agency of the
Islamic terrorist state, Chairman Meeks allegedly stated that he was
willing to travel to Iran and had been engaged in dialogue with Iranian
legislators.
Meeks took the lead in attacking the designation of
the Houthi Islamic terrorists as terrorists, arguing that, “No solution
in Yemen will be sustainable unless the Houthis are involved.”
And that gets at the real reason why Biden and Democrats oppose the designation.
It’s
not about humanitarian aid, which would have kept on going anyway, only
to be stolen by the Houthis. It’s about supporting Iran’s bid to take
over parts of Yemen in order to control shipping and tighten the grip of
the Islamic terrorist regime over the entire region.
The
‘diplomatic’ solution advocated by Biden and the Democrats would
finalize Iran’s grip over parts of Yemen. Designating the Houthis as
terrorists would get in the way of another in a series of Islamist dirty
deals with Iran that began with Obama and that will continue on under
Biden.
Even while the Democrats insist loudly that the Houthis
must be part of the solution in Yemen, they just as vocally cry that the
Republicans must be isolated and eliminated in America.
The
Democrats militarized D.C. with an armed occupation and are
criminalizing political dissent. They have claimed that one riot, after a
year full of them by their own activist wing, requires a permanent
state of emergency that will be run through the National Security
Council.
The Biden administration is not only taking the Houthis,
and likely other Islamic terrorist groups, off the terror list, it’s
putting the domestic political opposition on its terror list. This is an
extension of the same Obama policy that illegally shipped foreign cash
to Iran even while it was using the NSA to spy on pro-Israel members of
Congress and on the Trump campaign.
The Democrats are happy to
fight terrorism by designating their domestic political opponents as
terrorists while removing the “Death to America” Houthis who have
kidnapped and killed Americans, who fired on the USS Mason, and
ethnically cleansed Jews, from the terror list.
And what do the Houthis plan to do with their newfound support from the Biden administration?
In
addition to sanctioning the Houthis, the Trump administration
sanctioned three of their leaders, beginning with Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
The Houthi leader has made it clear that he intends to build up the
same missile program that was used to attack the USS Mason.
“To have rockets that could reach far beyond Riyadh, this is a great achievement,” he said, referring to the Saudi capital.
He also promised to send terrorists to fight against Israel.
“Many
of Yemen's tribesmen are ambitious to fight against Israel, and they
are looking for the day to participate along with the freemen of the
Islamic nation against the Israeli enemy,"
This is the terrorist
group that the Biden administration and the Democrats are bailing out
even while they’re criminalizing the Republican political opposition as
terrorists.
“Death to America” is something that the Houthis and their Democrat supporters can agree on.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
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