By Washington Free Beacon Editors
President Joe Biden is headed to the Middle East this week for the first time as president, in part to advance the historic peace agreements the Trump administration helped secure between Israel and many of its neighbors.
Itâs bad timing for one of his nominees, Dr. Tamara Cofman Wittes, who spent the Trump years as a Twitter warrior trashing the Abraham Accords and âwell, now itâs awkward.
We assume thatâs why, according to our Alana Goodman, the Jewish Democratic Council of America is rushing in to shore up Wittesâs street cred with a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from “leaders in foreign policy, national security, and the Jewish community” attesting to her stellar support for the Abraham Accords: “As Dr. Wittes said during her hearing,” Jewish Democratic Council CEO Halie Soifer writes in the letter, “the Abraham Accords âoffer a foundation for regional cooperation between Arab states and Israel, on shared issues like energy, water, and health.â”…