A TRAITOR BY ANY MEASURE
TRUMP DEFENDS MCMASTER:
"HE IS A GOOD MAN & VERY PRO ISRAEL"
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/trump-defends-mcmaster-he-is-a-good-man-and-very-pro-israel;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Either Trump is correct or the published reports are correct, but
both cannot be. There is simply too much evidence that McMaster is
working against Trump’s agenda to be ignored. Why Trump is standing by
this energetically insubordinate official is a mystery.“Trump Stands by McMaster, Claims He’s ‘Very Pro-Israel,’” by Adam Shaw, Breitbart, August 4, 2017:
President Trump defied his base Friday and defended under-fire national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster from accusations that he is anti-Israel and opposed to the president’s agenda — as calls for his firing among conservatives heat up.______________________________________________________
“General McMaster and I are working very well together,” Trump said in a statement emailed to the New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
Senior Adviser and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner also backed the globalist general: “General McMaster is a true public servant and a tremendous asset for the president and the administration,” he said.
“He has created and oversees a very thorough and clear process for the agencies to work together to give the president credible options to advance the president’s priorities for America’s foreign policy,” Kushner added.
McMaster replaced Gen. Michael Flynn after Flynn resigned in February over his accounts of a conservation with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. But McMaster has faced accusations he is anti-Israel due to his support of the Iran nuclear deal and reports that he refers to Israel as “the occupying power.”
The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick claimed that McMaster’s bias came out during Trump’s visit to Israel:
What hasn’t been reported is that it was McMaster who pressured Trump to agree not to let Netanyahu accompany him to the Western Wall. At the time, I and other reporters were led to believe that this was the decision of rogue anti-Israel officers at the US consulate in Jerusalem. But it wasn’t. It was McMaster.In February McMaster was said to have told his staff he is not fond of the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” and told them not to use it in the office. His justification was allegedly that terrorists are “un-Islamic” — a common talking point on the left.
But he enraged Trump’s base this week then he fired Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council — the third conservative departure in a week. He then reportedly came to the astonishing conclusion that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice did nothing wrong by unmasking Trump campaign officials during the transition — a belief firmly at odds with past statements by Trump.
McMaster’s various moves have been noticed by Trump’s base, with #FireMcMaster becoming a trending hashtag on Twitter, and a regular topic on conservative news sites — including Breitbart News. The Times reported that the hashtag had been tweeted at least 50,000 times since Wednesday.
Fox News pundit Sean Hannity asked whether McMaster needed to be fired over his reported treatment of the Susan Rice scandal.
The Times noted that Frank Gaffney Jr., president of the Center for Security Policy, had called McMaster “insubordinate to his commander in chief” in areas such as Islamic terrorism….
PRO ISRAEL & PRO MUSLIM TOO???
IS THIS PRO ISRAEL???
McMaster calls Israel “illegitimate,”
“occupying power”
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
If the Trump administration is going to have any integrity and
coherence in its policies toward Israel and the jihad threat in general,
McMaster (and all his allies and cohorts) must go. And the sooner the
better. The Trump administration has been sending mixed signals since
its inception. It’s a far cry from the confidence and decisiveness that
Trump projected on the campaign trail. If Trump doesn’t soon recover
some sense of what he initially intended to do, he will end up being
Obama’s third term.“Official: McMaster calls Israel ‘illegitimate,’ ‘occupying power,’” by Jordan Schachtel, Conservative Review, August 3, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
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….
McMaster blocked Ayaan Hirsi Ali from speaking to NSC and meeting Trump: “Islamophobic”
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/mcmaster-blocked-ayaan-hirsi-ali-from-speaking-to-nsc-and-meeting-trump-islamophobic;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
McMaster appears to be doing all he can to make sure that the truth
about Islam and jihad is not discussed at the NSC or the White House. He
must go. He must go soon.“Censored! McMaster Barred Scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Giving Talk on Radical Islam at NSC,” by Mike Cernovich, Medium, August 4, 2017 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was schedule to present a paper on radical Islamic terror at the National Security Counsel before being blocked by H.R. McMaster and his recently appointed Senior Director of Counter-Terrorism, Mustafa Javed Ali._______________________________________________________
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was in town to present her work to the Senate, was also prohibited from visiting the President during her White House visit, where she was allowed to meet with select members of the NSC in an informal setting.Asked why she was censored, a source reported, “Mustafa Javed Ali said she was Islamophobic, and that the only way she could present her paper would be to have someone from CAIR come in to refute her work.”This “both sides” justification for banning Ali was, according to my source, “complete bulls*t.”“People come in to present their views every day. There’s no requirement that every presentation be a debate.”…
TREACHERY: McMaster Promoted Terror-Tied CAIR Mustafa Javed Ali Who BARRED Ayaan Hirsi Ali Talk at NSC
BY PAMELA GELLER
EXCERPTS:
"Ayaan Hirsi Ali was
schedule to present a paper on radical Islamic terror at the National
Security Counsel before being blocked by H.R. McMaster and his recently
appointed Senior Director of Counter-Terrorism, Mustafa Javed Ali.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was in town to present her work to the Senate, was also prohibited from visiting the President during her White House visit, where she was allowed to meet with select members of the NSC in an informal setting."
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam
and the Defense of Western Civilization
Published on Jul 22, 2017
For
The New Criterion, Ben Weingarten, commentator and Founder & CEO of
ChangeUp Media sits down with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ardent defender of
Western civilization and individual liberty against Islamic supremacism.
New York Times bestselling author of ‘The Caged Virgin,’ ‘Infidel’ and
‘Nomad’ and ‘Heretic. Former Dutch MP, fellow with the Future of
Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, visiting scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute, founder of the AHA Foundation Ayaan Hirsi Ali and
recipient of The New Criterion’s fourth annual Edmund Burke Award for
Service to Culture & Society for an in-depth interview.
