Netanyahu has appointed Trump’s government (war cabinet)!

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he nominated former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a proponent of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, to be the US ambassador to Israel.

“I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,” Trump said in a statement.

“Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years. He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!” Trump added.

Huckabee, an Evangelical Christian who believes God gave historic Palestine to the modern state of Israel, is an outspoken proponent of Israel’s expansion in the occupied West Bank, which he calls Judea and Samaria.

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Trump Picks John Ratcliffe To Lead CIA

November 12, 2024ategories

Ratcliffe worked as Trump’s DNI from 2020 to 2021 and was a House representative for a district in Texas from 2015 to 2020. Back in 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Ratcliffe as the Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern District of Texas, and he was later promoted to the Attorney General for the district, where he worked from 2007 to 2008.

Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/NatSec roles

News Monday that President-elect Trump was eyeing three hawks for top slots in his administration has put a bit of a damper on the headiness that restrainers on the right were feeling over weekend news that Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo would not be joining the administration.

By 8 p.m. Monday, there was confirmation that Elise Stefanik, arch-defender of Israel who once worked for the neocon outfit Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and Bill Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative, is Trump’s pick for UN ambassador.

China hawk Rep. Mike Waltz, who spent much of his time on Capitol Hill this year saber rattling about Chinese military and spies in our backyard, and calling for a “new Monroe Doctrine” and a lot more military build-up to confront them, is Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor. He worked in the George W. Bush Pentagon and for Vice President Dick Cheney as a counterterrorism advisor.

Add to that, he resisted Trump’s efforts to get the U.S. military out of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, and like many uber-hawks in Congress, has been open to bombing Iran.

Trump Picks Rep. Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor

November 11, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has asked Mike Waltz, a hawkish House Republican from Florida, to be his national security advisor in the incoming administration, multiple media outlets reported on Monday night.

Waltz was a staunch supporter of the Ukraine proxy war early on and was one of the few members of Congress to suggest the US send “military advisors” into the country. He was also critical of President Biden for supposedly not being aggressive enough.

In 2023, Waltz began to express skepticism of the war, saying the US involvement in the conflict was “not sustainable.” However, in an interview with NPR last week, Waltz suggested that he would advise the president to end the war in Ukraine by escalating.

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