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In May 2023, the Biden administration restarted a National Institutes of Health grant to an organization that had been conducting bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology believed by many to be the source of the recent pandemic.
The Trump administration had originally halted the funding over concerns that it had contributed to experiments that were considered to represent ‘gain of function’ and had the potential to be weaponized by the Chinese military. To add insult to injury, taxpayers may have also paid twice for the grants. But the Biden administration has restarted the bat virus grant with the EcoHealth Alliance despite concerns raised by prominent researchers and journalists.
The United States has spent tens of millions of dollars funding research in China so that even beyond the military and espionage elements, we are backing our own biggest rivals.
In June 2023, the Biden administration reversed another Trump research mandate, this time cutting off scientific cooperation with Israeli institutions of higher learning on territory that it deems should be turned over to the PLO, Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other ‘Palestinian’ groups.
The primary victim of this policy will be Ariel University and researchers there.
The Biden boycott was only revealed when researchers at Ariel University were turned down. The State Department then declared that in a complete reversal of Trump administration policy, “participation in joint projects with Israel in the fields of science and technology in areas that came under its control after June 5, 1967” was “not consistent with American policy.” That would potentially include not only Ariel University, but also parts of Jerusalem.
While the names of the researchers involved have not been made public, Ariel University has many talented people working on a wide variety of problems like Dr. Michal Hochhauser who is working to help autistic children integrate better into society and Konstantin Borodianskiy, PhD who is investigating how to coat titanium implants, like those used in hip replacement surgery, with natural materials so that they bond more securely with bones in surgical patients.
The U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) encompasses BARD research on agriculture and BIRD research on industrial R&D including homeland security applications to counter terrorists. The Biden administration’s boycott of Ariel University and other researchers and facilities located in those parts of Israel claimed by terrorists cuts them out of the program.
While the Trump administration was unwilling to finance bat virus research in China, but was willing to work with Ariel University on medical, agricultural and national security research, the Biden administration will fund research in China, but not Israeli work on helping autistic kids..
During a better time, Ambassador David Friedman had joined Prime Minister Netanyahu at Ariel University to announce that the “geographic restrictions”, as they had persisted during the Obama administration and past administrations, “no longer comport with our foreign policy” of viewing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, known to some as the West Bank as “inconsistent with international law.”
Deleting a single sentence, Ambassador Friedman revealed, was anything but simple and required “an inter-agency process with numerous branches of Government.”
“We are righting an old wrong and strengthening yet again the unbreakable bond between our two countries,” he declared. Now Biden has brought back the wrong and broken the bond.
The United States obviously isn’t obligated to conduct any kind of cooperative research with foreign countries, and yet choosing China over Israel is highly revealing of the real agenda.
The Biden administration has refused to ban funding for research in the People’s Republic of China, but has chosen to ban it, no matter how benevolent, in parts of the Jewish State. Democrat administrations are willing to fund dangerous viral research in China, but not explore ways to teach autistic children to cope with the challenges of their environment in Israel.
Gain of function research that creates deadly viruses in one of the world’s most ruthless nations was fine, but bonding hip implants to bones in one of our closest allies is beyond the pale.
Even the Department of Defense has funded research in Hong Kong which is under the control of Communist China. The CDC and NIH have funded research at Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, and Najiing with no interest in the legitimacy of the Communist regime’s control over these territories or the legitimacy of the regime. But when it comes to Israel, Democrat administrations scruple over who has the right to the land that the university is on.
The Communist regime’s right to rule China is not contestable, but Israel’s right to its country is.
Unlike Communist China, Israel is run by a democratically elected government. Ariel University is located in the city of Ariel and has a student body of over 10,000. The city of Ariel, also known as the capital of Samaria, is built near the ruins of an ancient 3,000 year old Israelite city. No Arab Islamic colony had ever existed on the site. The graves of Joshua, the leader of the original Jewish return to Israel, and of Caleb, the other righteous biblical scout, lie near Ariel.
And yet the Biden administration considers the Communist Chinese regime to be more legitimate than the scientific researchers living and working in Ariel.
“The State Department is telling the entire U.S. government not to cooperate with Jews in Judea and Samaria. And of course it was sent to Congress in secret, and only revealed because reporters found out. “The Biden administration defends funding scientific research in Wuhan with the Chinese Communist Party, but they’re discriminating against and banning cooperation with Jews based on where they live,” Senator Ted Cruz said.
“The ZOA condemns the Biden administration’s reinstatement of a discriminatory, antisemitic boycott of research, development, science and technology cooperation and joint projects with Israel, in lawful Jewish areas that invading Arab nations seized from the Jewish people in 1948-1949, which Israel recaptured and liberated in the defensive 1967 war,” Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein stated.
The Biden administration has made it clear that it is more open to scientific cooperation with the ruthless regime of Communist China than the Jews of Ariel.
Yeah, that’s just stupid. But par for the course for the radical left. Hurts both Israel and USA. Actually may even benefit Israel by forcing them to go their own way. Like when Israel was forced to shut down their airplane industry, they developed the drones instead 🙂
Actually that is just my fractured version of history. Looking it up, they were forced to shut down the Lavi jet fighter. But then other developments in the aerospace industry were accelerated. Or something like that 🙂
I agree, but think “stupidity” does not nail the intent as well as “evil.”
Stupid is right. The snake pit State Department claims that written American policy is not consistent with American policy? Evil, deceitful and stupid is a lousy combination in my opinion.
And the Beijing Biden administration, the State Department and the Dirtbagocrats all support defunding humanitarian and globally beneficial R & D simply because it’s being conducted in Israel by dem Joos but fund genocidal R & D by our worst enemy, China, which is also a threat and enemy to the entire world. History’s oldest hatred is more important to those scumbags than helping people in need. And those hypocrites have the impudence to claim to be humanitarians when they actually oppose altruism and the health of their own children. Of course, the Beijing Biden administration and Dirtbagocrat party place an even higher priority on kow towing to the evil Chinese Communist Party than it does to their rabid anti-Semitism, which is an extremely high priority.
The State Department has long been described as a den of vipers, and if anything, it’s getting worse. Our government is controlled by absolute traitorous trash.
A snakepit. I was worried about rattlesnakes around here earlier this morning 🙂
Really? Why? What were the unusual circumstances?You have to stay aware and cautious where those things are common. The stories that a grown man can withstand their bite are bullshit. The vast majority of people bitten die, even grown men who’d survived a previous bite. if you get close without it sensing you in time, like if you’re walking in sand, they’ll strike before they have time to rattle and warn you.
I was daydreaming in a dry wash with a deep sand bottom when I was walking one of my dogs once when I lived on a dirt road in open desert in the Mojave, and almost got nailed by a Mojave green. Luckily it was facing me and they have eyesight as good as ours so it rattled. My dog warned me too and lunged for it but I pulled him back. Luckily I had him on a leash or he’d have attacked it and killed it but it would’ve bitten him before it died. He once saved my friend’s son when he was four from a big Western diamondback but the snake bit him as he killed it. She said his neck swole up something awful but dogs have a much stronger resistance to rattlesnake hemotoxin venom than humans do. I don’t know about neurotoxins but I suspect they’re togher than us against those, too.
So why were you worried? I can tell you, early morning and early evening is when they come out the most.
There are lots of them around here. I don’t know a good snake repellent. Cayenne seems to keep lizards away but supposedly doesn’t bother snakes.
I may try onion powder or garlic powder from China. I have a lot of it that I won’t eat myself 🙂
I have some good garlic powder for my own consumption from California that Chief told me about 🙂
My question is why we’re giving taxpayer monies to anyone for anything other than mutual defense? Are either China or Israel so broke they can’t finance their own research?
Our State Department just loves to fund projects all over the world, it must make them feel really virtuous. The heck with their self-aggrandizement, their foolish giveaways don’t help us one bit.
As the saying goes: You can rent a friend, but you can’t buy one.
Ozarks Tom
Biden the Appeaser Dr. Suse before he was writing classic kids books like Cat in the Hat If I Dan the Zoo, and How the Grinch stole Christmas did propaganda comics one titled the appeaser which suits Biden
The World pHarma Organisation was also defunded by Trump, because he, like everyone else, knew that the Whuhan bat virus was created by the Chinese.
The World pHarma Organisation is part of the United Nations, which had Agenda 21 now Agenda 2030.
Convid ended Agenda 21, what do they have planned for 2030?
This is appeasement of.Beijing How much did the Big Guy get for this decision?
Tens of millions of dollars, according to exposed e-mails and the laptop from Hell. Xi Ping Pong OWNS the Biden crime family.
Two can play this game.. Netanyahu is going to visit China. China wants a bigger foothold in the Middle East . Stay tuned.
And the US has expressed opposition to Netanyahu flying to China. Never mind that it’s apparently OK for Blinken and Austin to do so.
The anti Semitism and pro Hamas bigotry of the Jew Hating Joe administration on display once again.
We all know how indebted Biden is to China. They are making him richer every day! Nothing good comes out of China, especially the pandemics. Israel has proven their worth in technology, medicine, agriculture, and new wonder drugs for Cancer and other medical ailments. People are recognized for the kind of fruit they bear, not bad fruit that destroys.
The State Department is now obviously using boycotting for the simple joy, the deeply sadistic, arrogant pleasure, of taunting Israel because they have seemingly unchecked power to do so. That’s what villains do.
The words of this anti-Israel, anti-life policy are like the drops of blood savored on the lips and tongue of a rabidly dehydrated vampire sinking isharp incisors into the neck of its prey.
It is this expression of a taunting cruelty that has now emerged as the core of this hate-filled, soul-less enemy of Israel that is this current American government.
Well, villains exist to be defeated and vampires turn to dust in the light of day,
even if the rest of the world encourages this villainy or stands idly by.
Well said! Thank you!
It’s so simple. Biden, run by Obama holdovers, loves China, hates Jews and Israel Just like Obama.
“Obama holdovers.” You get it. Many people think Alzheimer Joe is run by Bareback himself, who couldn’t mastermind a game of patty cake. I’m amazed by how so many otherwise intelligent conservatives think the woefully incompetent Bareback is some kind of Fu Manchu.
Yeah, I always notice that when they overestimate the lazy bum 🙂
Yes, he reportedly slept till 10:00 and 11:00 every morning when he was “President” and never actually worked. His henchmen and women formulated all his policies and all he contributed was “a pen and a phone.” His only instructions were OBVIOUSLY screw whitey, divide America and strengthen islam worldwide.
Off topic but you mentioned good garlic powder from CA. Is it from Gilroy, the “garlic capitol of the world?” Gilroy is just South of San Jose and has great garlic products. It even has great pesto. The Gilroy pesto I bought is better than the Italian stuff I have! When you drive through Gilroy on the freeway, you can smell the garlic even with your windows rolled up and the air condirioner on. It’s pretty cool.
And sorry to say, the only thing I know of that repels snakes is cold and clear cutting all brush. Some snakes burrow under rocks somehow but not rattlers. Your best warning device is a dog, which will sense one before you will.
I feel certain I’m alive right now due to garlic. I chew a clove every night just before going to bed. When the Angel of Death bends over to give me the “Kiss” he says whew, maybe another time.
Yeah, Gilroy. My Dad used to live in nearby Hollister 🙂
Thanks for the tip about Gilroy Pesto. I eat a lot of pesto 🙂
I would hope that by now it would be clear to the Israeli government and people that it has no friend in Biden or his radical, delusional, and unhinged maladministration.
No Dhimmi-crat, save Harry Truman, could fairly be described as a “friend” of Israel and Jews.
Yes, Truman was an anomaly in that way. Even Ike screwed Israel in the Suez affair, and he had toured one of the extermination camps near the end of the war.
One of the great mistakes in history. I was too young to be aware of it at the time, only read about it when I got older.
Like the Korean War. I didn’t even know about it while it was happening, even though my dear uncle was in the Marine Corps fighting for his life. He once told me he still had nightmares about running out of ammunition with the Chinese Army coming at him in a human wave attack.
He named me as the beneficiary in the life insurance policy the Marines Corps gave him, I found out much later.
After the war, the main street in the city was closed one day to sell military surplus, tables full of stuff as far as the eye could see. At the time I thought it was WW2 surplus, and that they would have such an event every year. But no, it was a one time event 🙂
People tend to forget how involved China was in the Korean War. Running out of ammo in the face of waves of the enemy sounds like a very scary nightmare to me.
Military surplus for sale on Main Street USA? Those were the good old days. Under the Joe Taliban regime, military surplus which includes Apache helicopters, tanks and more rifles, pistols and ammo than most countries possess is handed to our islamic terrorist enemies.
Truman famously recognized Israel, even against the entreaties of Marshall, but he maintained an arms embargo, even as Israel was fighting multiple Arab armies for its independence, and indeed the fear of another genocide if they were to lose. (Eisenhower maintained that embargo.)
I didn’t know that. It’s a stain on his legacy.
Fair points, but, I still think it’s fair to give Truman due credit for recognizing Israel in the first place, against enormous pressure from various quarters to refrain from doing so. Credit is given where it’s fairly due, and, criticism should also be given, where that is fairly do.
When it comes to Israel, Presidents Reagan and Trump are the only American leaders whose record is unblemished.
China is getting what it paid for. Prez Sellout getting rich from treason.
Joe Biden Democrat.Globalists,Traitor
This move represents such indefensible, feckless and morally bankrupt dhimmitude and Jew-hate, from the vile Dhimmi-crats. Par for the course, sadly, and, even more outrageously offensive, indefensible and morally feckless given historical discrimination against Jews in scientific fields, worldwide.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is “believed by many to be the source of the recent pandemic?” Patient zero was a lab technician there. The next people to contract it were also lab technicians there, and they contracted it after patient zero was gone.
Chinese covid originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. No doubt about it.
More than 99% chance.
Those are interesting bets, when the odds get to around 99 to 1.
You would know! Yeah, only a fool would bet on the 1%.
Yeah, there would have to be a sequence of highly improbable events for it to have come from the Wuhan bat market or whatever.
There is a great evil spreading over the entire world and as seen destroying America,
it will not take much longer to finish the heinous work. Biden and his puppet master
(Obama) are purely haters of “One Nation under God”. They make Satan’s day.
Obama? I think you mean Xi.
Sadly, few realize that to curse Israel is to reap the winds of destruction.
See Genesis Chapter 12:3 ( one can’t game the LORD G_D Almighty )
Just like two Villians Mon-Star(Silver Hawks)and Mumra(Thundercats)they do make perfect match up
Looks like the CCP got their monies worth by helping Biden get fraudulently elected
The US spent Trillions in Afghanistan, and left after 20 years humiliated.China spent almost nothing, has access to US weapons left behind, and preferential access to Afghanistan’s mineral riches.
“Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every National Security and Foreign Policy issue over the past 4 decades” !
-Robert Gates- Obama’s Secretary of Defense
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fugk things up” !
-Barack Obama
Beijing Biden only funds America’s demise; funding prosperity and development is antithetical to the DemoNazi ideology.
Add to that the fact that Beijing Biden is an old school anti-Semite that PM Begin had to put in his place in the 1980s.
On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Begin forcefully responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
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