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2024-11-13 Home Front: Politix
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Trump picks Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, John Ratcliffe to head CIA, Steve Witkoff special envoy to MidEast, Pete Hegseth to head DoD, Elon and Vivek on gov’t efficiency
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[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump announces his decision to nominate former Arkansas governor and longtime backer of the settlement enterprise Mike Huckabee to the be next US ambassador to Israel.
“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 says in a statement.
Huckabee has been one of the evangelical Christian community’s most ardent supporters of Israel.
Trump nominates former national intelligence director to be CIA chief
[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump announces that he is nominating former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
A former Republican congressman from Texas, Ratcliffe served as director of national intelligence for the final year and a half of Trump’s first term, leading the US government’s spy agencies during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I look forward to John being the first person ever to serve in both of our Nation’s highest Intelligence positions,” Trump says in a statement. “He will be a fearless fighter for the Constitutional Rights of all Americans, while ensuring the Highest Levels of National Security, and PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.”
Trump announces real estate investor Steven Witkoff will be his special envoy to Mideast
[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump announces the appointment of real estate investor Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East.
Witkoff has been Trump’s regular golf partner and was seen as a conduit to the Jewish business community during his winning presidential campaign.
“Steve is a Highly Respected Leader in Business and Philanthropy, who has made every project and community he has been involved with stronger and more prosperous. Steve will be an unrelenting Voice for PEACE, and make us all proud,” Trump says in a statement.
Witkoff will fill a role that did not exist in the current administration, as US President Joe Biden believing that the conditions weren’t in place for another high-stakes Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative and instead sought to prioritize other foreign policy issues.
| The conditions were indeed not in place. The Harris-Biden administration worked hard to ensure it. |
Witkoff is not known to have any experience diplomacy or the Middle East, but those have not been criteria for previous Trump appointments.
| Fooey. Diplomatic experience has never been a requirement for American ambassadorial appointments. Who can forget Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, FDR’s ambassador to the Court of St. James? And the delightful Shirley Temple Black, still remembered fondly in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia? |
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who similarly lacked such experience, managed to broker the Abraham Accords during the Republican politician’s first term as president.
Trump taps Fox News host and US Army vet Pete Hegseth to head Defense Department
[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump says that he is nominating Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary.
Hegseth deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News.
“With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice — Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down,” Trump says in a statement. “Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our ‘Peace through Strength’ policy.”
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run Department of Government Efficiency
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