The Fake News Claim That Israeli Government Officials Back McMaster
Frontpage Mag ^ | 08/05/2017 | Daniel Greenfield
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3575022/posts
The main McMaster story for me has been his refusal to acknowledge Islamic terrorism and his support for Obama holdovers.
I don’t know his exact position on Israel. But his appointment of Kris Bauman, an apologist for Hamas, as the point man on Israel and Caroline Glick’s comments, would suggest he shares the basic animus of Obama and Bush officials toward Israel.
But as part of the media’s full court press defense of McMaster (itself telling as anything) has been the fake news claim that Israeli government officials support McMaster.
The sources of the Fake News claim are the Times of Israel and Haaretz.
Haaretz is a left-wing anti-Israel paper operating in Israel. It’s the equivalent of the New York Times if the latter stopped pretending it hated America and wanted to see it gone. A single incident with its deranged former chief editor should suffice.
Haaretz’s Chief Editor asked US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “rape” Israel, using other unsavory terminology as well in his request for American pressure....
This particular piece of Fake News was promoted by the Times of Israel, another left-wing paper hostile to Israel, but one whose bias is more subtle. Subtle enough to fool plenty of people.
Here’s the Fake News headline from the Times of Israel. Israeli officials say under-fire McMaster a great friend of Israel
Well that’s interesting. Who are these officials? Where are their quotes?
... If you know the media, you can already guess the answer. There are no officials. There’s just an anonymous source at an anti-Israel paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
On Friday, Trump issued a statement defending his national security advisor: “General McMaster and I are working very well together. He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”