Why Trump keeps McMaster on is a mystery. But clearly the General has won the day, and turned the President from his earlier resolve to confront the jihad threat realistically. The denial and willful ignorance regarding the motivating ideology of the threat, which has prevailed now for sixteen years, continues. It is the pathway to defeat, and eventually that will be clear to everyone — once it’s far too late.
“EXCLUSIVE: Gen. McMaster Sparked a Row With the Israeli Delegation at a White House Meeting on Hezbollah,” by David Steinberg, PJ Media, September 12, 2017:
During the week of August 27, an Israeli delegation met with members of the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House to discuss the current threat to Israel by the terror group Hezbollah.
Israel believes this threat is currently dire. This meeting preceded a two-week long Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) exercise to rehearse for possible war with Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post described this exercise, which commenced on September 4 and is ongoing, as the IDF’s largest in 20 years.
Hezbollah has been a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. However, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster reportedly brought NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism Mustafa Javed Ali to the White House meeting with Israel. Ali, a McMaster appointee, is described by a senior administration source as being “opposed to Hezbollah’s designation as a terrorist organization.”
What then transpired at the meeting has been confirmed to PJ Media by several administration sources, by members of non-governmental organizations involved in national security, and by a source within the Israeli government.
The Israeli delegation demanded that Mustafa Javed Ali leave the room.
This demand was made despite the clear likelihood that Ali would later be privy to the meeting’s materials and discussion. As such, sources speculated that Israel intended the demand to serve as a message to President Trump that McMaster’s behavior has constituted a subversion of Trump’s stated Middle East policy.
None of the several sources were aware if Trump had been made aware of the incident.
As has been widely reported, Trump’s Chief of Staff General Kelly has instituted tight restrictions on information and contacts reaching the president. Additionally, Kelly has been said to be working closely with General McMaster on issues related to the flow of information within the administration.
Friction between General McMaster and the Israeli delegation did not end with Israel’s demand that Ali leave the room.
Sources reported that McMaster went on to explicitly dismiss the Israelis’ specific concerns about Hezbollah.
In particular, the Israelis expressed concern that the “safe zone” currently being established within Syria — an idea that had been vociferously supported by Hezbollah’s sponsor, Iran — would immediately become a safe zone for Hezbollah to operate.
McMaster was said to “blow off” this major Israeli concern, and to be “yelling at the Israelis” during the meeting.
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For months, General McMaster has been under fire regarding his personnel decisions from Trump voters and the large majority of Americans who support Israel. McMaster has fired or otherwise removed all NSC appointees who strongly supported President Trump’s Middle East campaign platform.
Trump had repeatedly promised that his administration would reject the Bush/Obama policy of denying the doctrinal Islamic roots of terror, most notably expressed by Trump’s willingness to declare jihadist attacks to be “radical Islamic terrorism.” Indeed, Trump honored this pledge early in his term via the many appointees to the NSC brought on by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and others.
Under McMaster, however, all of these voices have been removed from the NSC in what has been described as a “purge.”
In their stead, McMaster has astonishingly welcomed figures such as Kris Bauman and Robert Malley to his NSC. Bauman’s and Malley’s careers have been so objectively subversive to the Trump agenda on Israel that McMaster might as well have appointed Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter.
Little information has previously been public about McMaster appointee Mustafa Javed Ali. Regarding Israel’s demand that he leave the meeting, a source claimed:
Israel possibly knows more about Javed Ali than [the Trump administration] does.
Earlier this year, Ali was rumored to have caused the cancellation of a scheduled talk to the NSC by Ayaan Hirsi Ali on account of her “Islamophobia.” Mrs. Ali, who escaped to the Netherlands from Kenya after fleeing a forced marriage, violence, and being a victim of female genital mutilation, is now an activist exposing Islamic doctrine. She has lived under 24/7 protection since 2004, when a Muslim murdered Dutch film director Theo van Gogh for making a film with Mrs. Ali that criticized Islam. A five-page note threatening the same fate for Ali was left pinned to van Gogh’s chest with a knife.
Sources within the Trump administration have confirmed to PJMedia that this rumor about Mustafa Javed Ali was correct: Mrs. Ali had been invited to speak to the NSC. She was later disinvited due to Javed Ali’s interference.
On August 11, Mrs. Ali published a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Trump for “losing focus” on his terrorism campaign pledges. Within the op-ed, she chose to mention only the “most charitable” criticism being floated about General McMaster:
Some administration critics have blamed the loss of focus on Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who became White House national security adviser in February. The most charitable formulation of this criticism is that military men who slogged their way through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have an aversion to the argument that we face an ideological opponent, as opposed to a series of military problems.
But I put the responsibility on Mr. Trump. With regard to radical Islam, he simply seems to have lost interest.
Yet senior administration sources are far less charitable about McMaster and his appointee Mustafa Javed Ali. As mentioned above, they described Ali as taking the breathtaking position that Hezbollah should not be a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. They described Ali as holding the same view regarding the Muslim Brotherhood.
They claimed Ali’s work within the NSC essentially amounts to him attempting to prevent the Trump administration from using any of the means at its disposal to target Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood as organizations. They claimed Ali advocates only targeting such groups’ identifiably “violent” members, and ignoring all other elements of their activities that may be subversive of U.S. interests.
These are recognizable as Obama-era policies — the “smart set” foreign policy strategies behind the Obama administration’s disastrous “Countering Violent Extremism” programs. This is the thinking that marched the Middle East to bloody catastrophe: a half-million dead in Syria.
Yet General McMaster appointed Ali as NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism, and purged the NSC of voices supporting President Trump’s Mideast agenda. Then McMaster reportedly sat Ali in front of an Israeli delegation visiting the White House to share its concerns about Hezbollah.
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I have previously reported here at PJMedia of an extensive public relations push — coordinated by administration supporters of General McMaster — to encourage conservative outlets and think-tanks to reject claims that McMaster is antagonistic to Trump’s foreign policy and to the State of Israel in general. That push was remarkably successful: an online search for critical McMaster stories from the right will reveal such articles virtually halted in mid-August….
Not at Jihad Watch. Read the rest here.
Wyldeirishman says
Mrs. Ali certainly went out of her way to put the best construction on things. The elephant in the room (wearing a suicide vest), however, remains; a deliberate blind eye towards the reality of the situation continues to threaten the safety of us all. The de facto alliance between the hard left and the impending caliphate is nothing short of the most gruesome variety of demonic coupling.
Dave says
Mc Master is part of obama created islamonazi swamp.
Bad news: Hillary mafia killed witness to email investigation and some good news
http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
why is this happening now ? Is it because obama/ Hillary holdovers run the show ?
RichardL says
here is a nice piece about that nasty piece:
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2017/ali-in-wonderland
I have thought about why Trump has appointed McMaster. Here is the result:
1. Trump went to a military school and sees the tough infantry general
2. Trump totally lied about everything and was an establishment Trojan horse
3. The Saudis have something that could shake the trust of Americans in America and Trump has been told about it a few months after taking office
At the moment I vacillate between 1. and 3.
maghan says
Wrong on 2 especially. The establishment wanted Jeb v. Hillary. 1 and 3 are speculative.
TL says
It’s not speculation but verified fact that the cop-loving blow hard went to military school. Also, he’s a known opportunist and shallow go-getter, like a white American frat boy. Every such person is mentally sterile and averse to complex thinking. In short, Trump is like a bot waiting to be programed. So he needn’t have begun his campaign as a Trojan horse or other type of tool to be converted into a tool later, after assuming office.
Shane says
I believe that Trump was convinced by his generals that pretending that Islamic terrorists have nothing to do with Islam is the best strategy. We must inform President Trump that the Islamophile McMaster has to be fired – Sign the Petition to Fire Obama Lackey National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster: http://petitionstocongress.org/sign-the-petition-to-fire-obama-lackey-national-security-adviser-h-r-mcmaster/
Terry Gain says
United States Security services have been infiltrated. This is a more serious threat to America than ISIS, Al Qaeda or any Islamic terrorist organization. The Muslim Brotherhood plan to take over America is proceeding apace.
I have no idea what Trump is doing and I don’t think he does either. Ignorance about Islamic doctrine seems almost universal.
samdav7 says
Conspiracy theories prove that since the buildup towards WWI till today, the gangs of the very filthy rich in America are the ones who are running the show and selecting the president as their chosen face of the new term administration ( citizen’s voting is irrelevant ), just a face and a puppet who’s job is to say and do what he/she’s told, at the same time they install the real president who’s going to execute all their evil plans somewhere within the new administration, for clever people this setup was always obvious, and today is no exception, the president is just a face / puppet and McMaster is the real appointed president by the same old gangs, McMaster’s job is to execute their evil plans accurately !
Dave says
POed
Why did McMaster appointed noted Islamic supremacists Mustafa Javed Ali to such a sensitive position if not to undermine the election.
Trump is compromised on the Islamic question; he is failing.
underbed cat says
Diversity does not mean hire the enemy.
jewdog says
Dedicated to Trump:
https://www.google.com/search?q=if+i+only+had+a+brain+youtube&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl
rbla says
I can see the Congressional leaders of the swamp from both parties meeting with Trump. “Nice presidency you’ve got here Mr. Trump. It would be a shame if you were impeached, convicted and removed. We have some friends of ours, generals, who we would like you to hire.”
TL says
Shhhh. You could scare or anger a Trumpkin who believes that the U.S. military, esp.the Navy, is “a global force for good”.
gravenimage says
Once again, TL is pushing the idea that the US military is intrinsically evil.
Of course, there are a lot of fools–and worse–like McMaster. But TL’s implication goes a lot further than this.
His biggest beef with the US military, of course, was taking out the Fascists in WWII.
TL says
Wrong again, little fool. The US military saved the worse commies (i.e. your favorites) from the lesser evil. Since that war, your precious armed forces of clueless nerds, arrogant punks (e.g. John McCain), and useful sluts has not ceased to be a global force for insatiable capitalists and the communist international aka the United Nations. For this the US military deserves contempt and ridicule sufficent to break it up from within.
Wyldeirishman says
At the risk of feeding the troll, I won’t let a broadside at the USN pass unheeded, as many in my family have served with honor and distinction.
Please DO take that shit to the shit-store and sell it, TL.
TL says
Did your USN bend over backwards to help save communist internationalists from the nationalist communists of Hitler and Mussolini?
Are European internationalists responsible for the migratory invasion of “refugees”?
Did your USN help to bring Mao to power in China?
Did Stalin and Mao help to establish the PDRK?
Was the USN an obedient tool of FDR and his cronies?
Well, yes, and there are plenty of reasons to believe that the USN is rotten now, too.
underbed cat says
Unbelievable, to read that General Mac Master does not understand Israel’s problem with Hezbollah.. who raises money for paying the families of martyr’s who will blow themselves up in front of any non believer a message from the religion of no peace. The pictures show rocks throwing, the media always showed this could not show the rest, but they build their suicide vests and and use children, woman and men to bring terror…so why is Trump listening …..either he is unaware of the source of problem never read the Quran or you are right rbla or he is in fear or numb and is filtered against understanding the muslim brotherhood.
John W says
The very sight of Imam McMaster is making me ill these days.
Krazy Kafir says
General McDhimmi is just doing what a good dhimmi stooge would do.
dave says
Without sources named, it is not possible to give credence to this article. How many times has Jihadwatch complained about fake news? I want to believe the story is accurate, but cannot allow a double standard.
gravenimage says
Many news agencies use confidential sources–this is a long established practice. Your idea that all such stories hence must be fakes is incorrect.
gravenimage says
McMaster sparked a row with the Israeli delegation at a White House meeting on Hizballah
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The more I hear about this creep, the worse it is.
Fred H says
Occam’s Razor: the simplest explanation for Trump’s choice of McMaster is that Trump is out of his depth and not that interested when it comes to Islam and turns to whoever seems to be the most competent person, given his very limited knowledge.
jewdog says
It’s the blind leading the blind in the Trump admin.
JawsV says
What is Trump doing with this meathead?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Trump seems to be an idolater who sees a military uniform as proof of sincerity; possibly reasoning that if military men make the wrong call, they pay with their lives. Perhaps it’s the echo of his own youthful and idealistic service in uniform.
Unfortunately he seem to doesn’t realize that as within any other large organization, the scum floats to the top and those in charge are also those most likely to be the most adept and hypocritical compromisers, who are the most apt TO GO ALONG with crimes and criminal lies TO GET ALONG with all the other lying criminals.
Generals are politicians, too.
Trump seems to have forgotten this simple fact, if he ever consciously knew of it in the first place.