In this mailing:
- Soeren Kern: The Battle for
Trump's Foreign Policy
- Nonie Darwish: Is the State
Department Buying Arab Propaganda?
by Soeren Kern • August 9, 2017
at 5:00 am
- National
Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said that an ongoing review of
Iran policy will be completed by late summer. In the meantime,
however, he has fired opponents of the Iran deal, including
Derek Harvey, who reportedly drafted a comprehensive plan on
how to withdraw from the agreement. A White House insider
described Trump's Iran policy as "completely gutted"
in the aftermath of McMaster's purge.
- "Everything
the president wants to do, McMaster opposes. Trump wants to
get us out of Afghanistan — McMaster wants to go in. Trump
wants to get us out of Syria — McMaster wants to go in. Trump
wants to deal with the China issue — McMaster doesn't. Trump
wants to deal with the Islam issue — McMaster doesn't. You
know, across the board, we want to get rid of the Iran deal —
McMaster doesn't. It is incredible to watch it happening right
in front of your face. Absolutely stunning." — Former NSC
official, Daily Caller.
- "The
President's ultimate success will in large part depend on the
degree of commitment to his agenda among the people he
appoints to ensure its success.... The most important rule of
presidential personnel management is to appoint people who are
fully committed to the presidential agenda." —
"Personnel Is Policy," The Heritage Foundation.
National
Security Advisor H.R. McMaster has been accused of trying to undermine
President Donald Trump's foreign policy agenda by removing from the
National Security Council key Trump loyalists. Pictured: President
Trump and McMaster at the announcement of McMaster's appointment as
National Security Advisor, on February 20, 2017. (Image source:
White House video screenshot)
The ongoing purge of people loyal to U.S. President
Donald J. Trump at the National Security Council, the main
organization used by the president to develop national security
policy, is part of a power struggle over the future direction of
American foreign policy.
Trump campaigned on a promise radically to shift
American foreign policy away from the "globalism" pursued
by his predecessors to one of a "nationalism" which puts
"America first." He also vowed to: "defeat"
Islamic extremism; "tear up" the nuclear deal with Iran;
"reset" bilateral relations with Israel by moving the
U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem "on Day One" of his
administration; and "direct the Secretary of the Treasury to
label China a currency manipulator."
by Nonie Darwish • August 9, 2017
at 4:00 am
- After
centuries of Muslim persecution, often genocidal, or
dhimmitude under sharia, Christianity in the Middle East has
been stunted, if not effectively crushed. To avoid
discrimination, Christians gave their children Arab names
instead of Biblical ones. Their religious celebrations are
kept indoors, lest Christian festivities offend Muslims. As in
a Stockholm Syndrome, Middle East Christians often ended up
defending and even praising Islam, even if that comes at the
expense of their own religious rights.
- It
is stunning to see is how on the one hand, the US State
Department and media play down the genocide going on today
against Christians in the Middle East, but on the other hand,
immediately believe Muslims when one of their leaders tells an
American delegation that he does not fear Arabs but fears
Jews.
- With
many branches of the US government apparently determined to
distort reality, there seems to be a series of deliberate
decisions to ignore -- and to prevent the American public from
knowing -- what is really going on.
- "Politically
incorrect" language has been censored by the State
Department, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department
of Homeland Security, the previous Executive branch, and, most
recently, the National Security Council, which recently seems
to have purged the entire department.
It is most
unfortunate that Lawrence Wilkerson, a former high-ranking State
Department official, decided to blame Israel during the recent
crisis, in which Jews were the obvious victims. (Image source:
MSNBC video screenshot)
It is dangerous for the West to accept Arab anti-Semitic
propaganda voiced by some Christian leaders in the Middle East;
they are held hostage by the Muslim majority around them. Since the
age of the internet, even many Arabs have stopped buying Arab
propaganda.
A recent mark was retired Colonel Lawrence
Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell when he was
Secretary of State. Wilkerson recently said on MSNBC, during the
recent Temple Mount crisis, that Jews pose the biggest threat to
Christians in the Middle East. He learned this, he said, in
2002-2003 in Ramallah, during a business trip to meet with Yasser
Arafat, from a Middle Eastern Catholic Bishop, who had told him
that the biggest enemy for Christians in the region was not the
Arabs but the Jews. So, Wilkerson, instead of condemning countless
unprovoked terror attacks against Israelis, criticized Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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