Posted on 08/04/2017 6:30:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s not a coincidence that national security adviser H.R. McMaster has chosen to eliminate the pro-Israel voices at the National Security Council, three West Wing and defense officials (who chose to speak on background for diplomatic sensitivity reasons) told Conservative Review.
In interviews with several current and former members of President Trump’s inner circle, a profile of McMaster has emerged as a man fiercely opposed to strengthening the U.S. alliance with the Jewish state.
On Wednesday, American-born Israeli journalist Caroline Glick detailed explosive allegations concerning McMaster’s views on Israel. Glick is a well-known pro-Israel columnist and has established connections with the Trump administration. Many of the details in this story emerged from questions asked about Glick’s allegations.
The list of pro-Israel voices in the administration that were removed from McMaster’s National Security Council now includes: Steve Bannon, K.T. McFarland, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Derek Harvey, Rich Higgins, Adam Lovinger, and Tera Dahl.
McMaster not only shuns Israel, he is also historically challenged on Arab-Israeli affairs, according to the sources.
“McMaster constantly refers to the existence of a Palestinian state before 1947,” a senior West Wing official tells CR (there was never an independent Palestinian state), adding that McMaster describes Israel as an “illegitimate,” “occupying power.”
The NSC chief expressed great reluctance to work with Israel on counterterror efforts, as he shut down a joint U.S.-Israel project to counter the terrorist group Hezbollah’s efforts to expand Iran’s worldwide influence. The project was led by the now-former NSC Middle East director Derek Harvey.
In July, Palestinian terrorists armed with rifles left the al-Aqsa mosque compound and assassinated two Israeli police officers. Afterward, Israeli security forces installed metal detectors outside the Jerusalem mosque for protection. McMaster, however, didn’t see it that way. He viewed the security measures as “just another excuse by the Israelis to repress the Arabs,” a senior defense official tells CR.
A senior West Wing official explained McMaster’s anti-Israel posture further:
“In advance of the president’s trip to Israel, there was a lot of desire from within the Trump administration for [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu to join the president at the Western Wall. McMaster didn’t even want [Trump] to go to the Western Wall. He only wanted the president to visit the Holocaust Museum.”
A deal was ultimately cut, and the president visited the Western Wall — but without Netanyahu.
In May, while briefing reporters, McMaster infamously refused to recognize that the Western Wall (one of the holiest sites in Judaism) was part of Israel.
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It’s not a coincidence that national security adviser H.R. McMaster has chosen to eliminate the pro-Israel voices at the National Security Council, three West Wing and defense officials (who chose to speak on background for diplomatic sensitivity reasons) told Conservative Review.
In interviews with several current and former members of President Trump’s inner circle, a profile of McMaster has emerged as a man fiercely opposed to strengthening the U.S. alliance with the Jewish state.
On Wednesday, American-born Israeli journalist Caroline Glick detailed explosive allegations concerning McMaster’s views on Israel. Glick is a well-known pro-Israel columnist and has established connections with the Trump administration. Many of the details in this story emerged from questions asked about Glick’s allegations.
The list of pro-Israel voices in the administration that were removed from McMaster’s National Security Council now includes: Steve Bannon, K.T. McFarland, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Derek Harvey, Rich Higgins, Adam Lovinger, and Tera Dahl.
McMaster not only shuns Israel, he is also historically challenged on Arab-Israeli affairs, according to the sources.
“McMaster constantly refers to the existence of a Palestinian state before 1947,” a senior West Wing official tells CR (there was never an independent Palestinian state), adding that McMaster describes Israel as an “illegitimate,” “occupying power.”
The NSC chief expressed great reluctance to work with Israel on counterterror efforts, as he shut down a joint U.S.-Israel project to counter the terrorist group Hezbollah’s efforts to expand Iran’s worldwide influence. The project was led by the now-former NSC Middle East director Derek Harvey.
In July, Palestinian terrorists armed with rifles left the al-Aqsa mosque compound and assassinated two Israeli police officers. Afterward, Israeli security forces installed metal detectors outside the Jerusalem mosque for protection. McMaster, however, didn’t see it that way. He viewed the security measures as “just another excuse by the Israelis to repress the Arabs,” a senior defense official tells CR.
A senior West Wing official explained McMaster’s anti-Israel posture further:
“In advance of the president’s trip to Israel, there was a lot of desire from within the Trump administration for [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu to join the president at the Western Wall. McMaster didn’t even want [Trump] to go to the Western Wall. He only wanted the president to visit the Holocaust Museum.”
A deal was ultimately cut, and the president visited the Western Wall — but without Netanyahu.
In May, while briefing reporters, McMaster infamously refused to recognize that the Western Wall (one of the holiest sites in Judaism) was part of Israel.
After his stand against Israel’s sovereignty, McMaster’s NSC staff (composed mostly of Obama holdovers and new liberal appointees) applauded his anti-Israel posture.
“As McMaster announced that the president would be going to the Western Wall by himself (and without Netanyahu) … the people in his White House office (who were watching the speech on television) were clapping and cheering,” said a firsthand witness to the events that unfolded after McMaster’s briefing.
The NSC director continues to face massive blowback from conservative leaders, as his popularity on the Right dwindles. On Wednesday, McMaster fired Trump loyalist Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the NSC.
Thursday, Circa reported that McMaster allowed for Obama cabinet official Susan Rice to retain her top security clearance, even as she has been accused of conducting illegal surveillance on American citizens.
The National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Pretty much as prophesied for the Last Days.
We already know how the world is gonna turn. Hope they enjoy it.
I have asked the same question about a number of them.
Unbelievable.
how in Hell did President Trump get stuck with this dam*ed Nazi?!
Gee, he has SO MANY sabouteurs, backstabbers, SorozNazi/Obama agents and moles ....
Dear President Trump, please sir you have to DRAIN THE SWAMP right away, all of them...Snake Department, Military, Intelligence, Security, all the places Obama stacked with enemy agents, moles, and spies.
It might take 5,000 “YOUR FIREDs”...maybe only 500? I have no idea the exact number but please, you’ve gotta do it before they DESTROY your presidency! They’re doing it right NOW, Sir. All these reports are VERY VERY distressing....You are the one man in USA who we can count on to say, “YOU’RE FIRED!” .... its almost your trademark, ha!... Please don’t wait any longer.....time is of the essence, your presidency is being destroyed from right underneath you there...NOW is the time to really DRAIN THE SWAMP... Thank you sir.
Let's talk about Watnick with our logic hats on. Could it be as simple as, he was removed from the NSC because he is, in fact, a material witness to a crime and so cannot serve at the moment without the implication of bias in any future upcoming testimony against what he is a witness to? Of course, the Left will never admit it so they will spin it as some nefarious removal.
from wiki:
Cohen-Watnick allegedly inadvertently identified reports suggesting that members of Trump's campaign team had been subjected to incidental surveillance by the United States intelligence community, as part of an unrelated review of privacy procedures.[18][19] This information was passed on to chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Devin Nunes by Assistant White House Counsel Michael Ellis.[20] Nunes was heading the Committee's investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. According to a US official, Cohen-Watnick was not involved in showing the material to Nunes, did not clear Nunes onto the White House grounds, did not review the material with Nunes and was not even aware that the material was going to be shared with the committee chairman.
I'm telling you that EVERYTHING that is printed today has to be filtered and proved before I will believe it. Even conservatives are eating their own because they don't like Trump. Sorta like believing McCain on anything because he's a "hero". I served with some real hero's in the military, but most of them aren't qualified to be dog catcher let alone Senator. they can be brave honorable men but not have the common sense to hold public office. If McCain is a hero, then Kerry is a hero. For me, I can't stand either.
If true (and I trust very little in the news), then McMaster needs to be fired. Antisemitism is a core leftist position, but it is unacceptable in a republican.
Will have to wait to see if there's some rhyme and reason.
This is the guy Trump says is Very Pro Israel. Hmmmmmm.
more ‘from unnamed officials’ quotations. If we demand the libtards give their ‘officials’ names, then we should require the same from our folks.
“General McMaster and I are working very well together,” Mr. Trump said in an unusual statement issued shortly before midnight Friday. “He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/3/trump-mcmaster-meet-amid-purge-security-staffers/
Washington Times
These fools write their own damnation literally.
[ “McMaster constantly refers to the existence of a Palestinian state before 1947,” a senior West Wing official tells CR (there was never an independent Palestinian state), adding that McMaster describes Israel as an “illegitimate,” “occupying power.” ]
The world mocks, mostly, at Bible Prophecy that talks of the coming days.
They’re going to learn the hard way. While they are saying ‘Peace and Safety!’.
It takes a lot of denial to not realize that the Jews held the Promised land of Israel for THOUSANDS of years before they were kicked out.
They have to ignore and deny tons of actual history.
Boy are they and their Saudi masters in for a BIG surprise.
McMaster and Mattis Are Rare Assets—Not Deep State Liabilities
By Victor Davis Hanson
August 5, 2017
https://amgreatness.com/2017/08/05/mcmaster-mattis-rare-assets-not-deep-state-liabilities/
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Jacksonians like McMaster and occasionally Mattis (and I speak of them in concert not because they are predictably in agreement, but only because their long careers were similarly unconventional) are somehow this week caricatured as being protectors of the Deep State Beltway. Perhaps such mischaracterization is because they are, in Augustus’s words, “making haste slowly”—or trying to prepare the world for post-Obama changes without either turning inward or starting a war. Such cautiousness can be, of course, naturally viewed as obstructionism by a populist base.
Yet if Trump wanted iconoclastic generals, both outspoken, and sometimes abrasive, who nonetheless put a high priority on loyalty, he could not have picked two better representatives. McMaster was often unfairly passed over for generalship because he was a bother to hierarchies. Mattis was sidetracked by Obama because he had a rare habit of speaking the truth, sometimes bluntly, and identifying with the warriors under his command rather than with his superiors in Washington.
So the idea, to take one example, that McMaster is soft on Islamism or is anti-Israel is absurd. I cannot think of a more obdurate opponent of the Iranian regime, perhaps because so many of those he served with in Iraq were killed by shaped charges brought into Iraq by Iranians, who subverted the U.S. effort with impunity. Nor was McMaster a neoconservative in matters of post-9/11 interventions, but instead he served an agenda that he likely would have preferred was more punitive and realist than inspired by idealistic nation-building.
Faultlines
One can have legitimate arguments over bad and worse choices concerning Afghanistan and Syria. Or how best to dismantle North Korea’s new missile arsenal. Or the most effective way to coax or force Putin away from Russia’s new hostility.
But what remains again inexplicable is the suggestion that anyone heading the Pentagon or the NSC is either disloyal to Trump, in thrall to the status quo, or too soft on our enemies. They are not.
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Mr. Jackson?
I’ve messaged him on twitter to that effect, a meaningless gesture by itself, but perhaps if enough people tell him the same thing?
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