Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick wrote Wednesday
evening that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is purging
pro-Israel staff from the National Security Council (NSC), turning the
administration against President Donald Trump’s policies.
In a Facebook
post, Glick noted that “all of these people” whom McMaster has fired this week —
Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and
Ezra Cohen-Watnick — “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal, positions that Trump holds.”
She noted that the firings were the latest evidence that NSA McMaster is “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”:
According
to senior officials aware of his behavior, he constantly refers to
Israel as the occupying power and insists falsely and constantly that a
country named Palestine existed where Israel is located until 1948 when
it was destroyed by the Jews.
Many of you will remember that a few days before Trump’s visit to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו and
his advisers were blindsided when the Americans suddenly told them that
no Israeli official was allowed to accompany Trump to the Western Wall.
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.
And even that, it
works out wasn’t sufficient for McMaster. He pressured Trump to cancel
his visit to the Wall and only visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial —
ala the Islamists who insist that the only reason Israel exists is
European guilt over the Holocaust.
Glick noted that
the three latest firings were not McMaster’s first attack on pro-Israel
officials, or those critical of radical Islam. Two others had already
been assigned to other jobs outside the National Security Council, she
said.
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