Posted originally on the CTH on November 1, 2023 | Sundance 

There are a myriad of geopolitical interests exploiting the Israeli war against Hamas terrorists.  The intelligence operation we noted in Dagestan, Russia, was one small element of a larger dynamic.  Here we dig into the geopolitical exploits of China and other interests.

Yesterday, a Chinese student at Cornell University in New York was arrested for posting vile death threats against Jewish students. Patrick Dai, age 21, a junior at the university, posted some of the most horrible threats against Jewish students threatening to kill, rape and conduct a mass shooting on the campus.  The overarching dynamic, amid many U.S. colleges, has been to support the Hamas terrorists – such is the leftist infiltration and indoctrination that has essentially been unchecked for the past several years.

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Patrick Dai, age 21, a junior at Cornell University who is originally from Pittsford, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications.

[…] The complaint alleges that Dai posted threatening messages to the Cornell section of an online discussion site, including posts calling for the deaths of Jewish people and a post that said “gonna shoot up 104 west.” According to information provided by Cornell University Police and other public information, 104 West is a Cornell University dining hall that caters predominantly to Kosher diets and is located next to the Cornell Jewish Center, which provides residences for Cornell students. In another post, Dai allegedly threatened to “stab” and “slit the throat” of any Jewish males he sees on campus, to rape and throw off a cliff any Jewish females, and to behead any Jewish babies. In that same post, Dai threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.” (read more)

Obviously, the context here is disturbing.  Dai is just one student, but the ideology represented is carried by many of the professors and university faculty throughout mainstream U.S. universities; albeit perhaps with a less direct use of violent verbiage to describe their mindset.  However, the Chinese social media platforms are a current hotbed for antisemitism and extreme expressed hatred for Jews.

The Diplomat (Asia-Pacific) – […] Hateful online content is a global scourge. The Chinese information space, however, is unique in that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightly controls the messages circulating on social media platforms through both automated and manual tools, meaning the hate speech that remains uncensored reflects the regime’s decisions. In Freedom House’s newly released Freedom on the Net 2023 report, China was ranked as having the world’s worst environment for internet freedom – for the ninth straight year.

Amid the new round of conflict, Jin Canrong, a prominent international affairs professor with 2.7 million followers on Weibo, wrote, “Israel right now is crazed with killing, the U.N. can’t be of much use this time.”

“Hitler truly knew the Jews” was the most liked comment in response to Jin’s post.

Chinese social media platforms, which are quick to delete content that the government deems politically sensitive, have done little to restrict antisemitic content that clearly violates their community standards prohibiting hate speech or speech that might incite racial discrimination or violence.

Instead of condemning antisemitism, the Chinese government, through the state media, has only exploited the conflict to play up antisemitic tropes and spread disinformation. On October 10, in a program on “uncovering the Israel element of U.S. elections in history,” the state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) alleged that “Jews, who represent 3 percent of U.S. population, control 70 percent of its wealth.” Similarly, during an outbreak of fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in May 2021, China Global Television Network (CGTN), the government’s primary foreign-language news channel, aired a program in English on Israel-U.S. relations, attributing the two countries’ close ties to the notion that “Jews dominate finance, media, and internet sectors” in the United States. (read more)

One cannot be intellectually honest and avoid noticing the overarching geopolitical dynamic that is exploiting the framework of the Israel vs Palestinian conflict.

China, as part of the BRICS economic alliance, is connected by self-interest to the government of Russia, Iran and elements within the Middle-East that were predominantly under the influence of U.S. political policy.  The relationship between China and Yemen is one example where the extremist Islamic sentiment aligns with the interest of Beijing.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in the formative phase of the Arab Spring.

As the consequences of the Obama, Clinton, Biden policy surfaced throughout the Middle East (Tunis, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria), the national leadership of the region were pushed into extremist turmoil.  Obama seemed to view this collateral damage as acceptable, despite his claims to the contrary.  The U.S. relationship with Qatar was one example of the aligned interests of the White House that looked favorably toward the Muslim Brotherhood.

A dynamic of turmoil always creates new alignments, and this became very visible when Egypt and then Saudi Arabia started to push back against Obama/Clinton U.S. policy.  When Obama aligned favorably with opening the big cat cages of Islamic extremism, the leaders of multiple Mideast nations, like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, were quickly looking for an alternative, perhaps more stable, geopolitical alignment.

The opening created by Obama, Clinton and Biden’s short-sighted chaos, left room for China and Russia to expand the footprint of their pre-existing influence. Ultimately, those relationships have grown over the past several years, in combination with BRICS and the investments by Beijing for their own geopolitical interests.

Inside this dynamic, and directly as a result of U.S. policy as executed, Israel has been becoming increasingly more isolated.  The only thing that happened to change that dynamic was the election of Donald Trump and a new ‘peace view’ that began pulling all of the Arab nations together via the Abraham Accords.

President Trump was making great strides toward removing the chaos with a balanced approach that targeted ‘extremism‘ as the common enemy.  The Trump Doctrine was pragmatic, only targeting extremism and those who created chaos.  Thus, ISIS and other radical elements were confronted/eliminated, but good relations were developed amid reasonable minds.

With President Donald Trump’s policies supporting the absence of turmoil, things settled down, and violent extremism stopped.  Within this dynamic, Israel was more secure; the lack of violence created a blanket of stability. However, the team behind Joe Biden, essentially the same team behind Obama, quickly returned to the former ‘chaos as a tool of influence‘ policy.  Now we are seeing the consequences.

China along with most of the Arab nations support a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestinian conflict.  Obama/Biden also support the two-state solution, and all of the expressed and hidden Biden policies are designed to paint Israel into a corner where the two-state option is their only option.  The result is an increasingly isolated Israel once again, and that reality fuels global antisemitism.

The Biden term presents a one-time disposable opportunity for the anti-Israel ideologues to advance rapidly.  We can be relatively certain that as Hamas looks out into the larger global world, they are very happy to see Russia, China, the United States, and other EU political leadership in alignment with their desire to eliminate the independent Jewish state.

WASHINGTON DC –  Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered — and the president has conveyed that sentiment to the Israeli prime minister in a recent conversation.

The topic of Netanyahu’s short political shelf life has come up in recent White House meetings involving Biden, according to two senior administration officials. That has included discussions that have taken place since Biden’s trip to Israel, where he met with Netanyahu.

Biden has gone so far as to suggest to Netanyahu that he should think about lessons he would share with his eventual successor, the two administration officials added.

A current U.S. official and a former U.S. official both confirmed that the administration believes Netanyahu has limited time left in office. The current official said the expectation internally was that the Israeli PM would likely last a matter of months, or at least until the early fighting phase of Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip was over, though all four officials noted the sheer unpredictability of Israeli politics.

Biden’s trip to Tel Aviv last month was one largely of support, but privately he also urged Netanyahu to proceed cautiously and not widen the war, according to the two senior administration officials. The president pushed the prime minister to prioritize a two-state solution and be mindful of the steps beyond an effort to decapitate Hamas, including the challenges of any sort of future occupation of Gaza.

At one point during the trip, Biden advised Netanyahu to consider the scenario he was leaving for his successor — an implicit suggestion that Netanyahu might not be in power for the duration of what will likely be a lengthy conflict. (read more)

Benjamin Netanyahu is in a very tenuous place.