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2025-08-21 Home Front: Politix
US State Department fires press aide after reported disputes on Gaza policy
[IsraelTimes] Shahed Ghoreishi drafted nixed statement on ‘forced displacement’ of Gazans, but managed to overrule Huckabee aide who wanted to hail House speaker’s visit to ‘Judea and Samaria’

The US State Department fired its press officer for Israeli-Paleostinian affairs after he reportedly internally raised multiple objections regarding how to project the Trump administration’s policy on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

Shahed Ghoreishi was fired on Monday, just days after he drafted a statement for the department stating that the US does not support "forced displacement of Paleostinians in Gaza," according to The Washington Post.
He mistook who exactly is setting policy and who is communicating it without alteration.
The Post did not specify what the statement was supposed to be in reference to, but it came against the backdrop of Israel’s plan to order the evacuation of roughly 1 million Paleostinians ahead of its planned take over of Gaza City and amid reports that it is in talks with several countries including South Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
about relocating refugees from the Strip.

Ghoreishi told the Post that the language he used in the drafted statement was consistent with remarks made in recent months by US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
and special envoy Steve Witkoff, who sought to clarify that Washington is not seeking to forcibly expel Gazooks after Trump unveiled a plan in February to take over the Strip and permanently relocate all of its residents.

But State Department leadership vetoed the line recommended by Ghoreishi, according to a memo last week obtained by the Post.

It was not the only time Ghoreishi — who also served in the State Department during the Biden administration — clashed with others in the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau.

When an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
killed Al Jazeera news hound Anas al-Sharif along with five other journalists in a Gaza City tent earlier this month, Ghoreishi recommended that the State Department issue a statement that included a line "mourn[ing] the loss of journalists and express[ing] condolences to their families."

But Ghoreishi was overruled, with a superior at the State Department responding in an August 10 email seen by the Post, "No response is needed... We can’t be sending out condolences if we are unsure of this individual’s actions."

Israel says al-Sharif was a Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
fighter, and the IDF said some of the other journalists killed with him were also terror operatives. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the army hasn’t provided proof of the latter claim.

One individual who repeatedly clashed with Ghoreishi within the Department was David Milstein, a senior adviser to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.

Citing officials familiar with the matter, the Washington Post reported Milstein that is known for confronting staff throughout the State Department in defense of Israeli government policy.

"Milstein is an adviser to an ambassador. That’s it, yet he has his hands in everything," one official told the Post.

David Milstein, senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee in Israel, was a major opponent of Ghoreishi, frequently intervening in State Department matters to defend Israel, according to The Washington Post.

Milstein did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.

The Post said Milstein clashed with other State Department officials when he sought to have a statement released in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...
’s name that condemned Ireland for advancing legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements.

Milstein was overruled by US diplomats in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
who felt the matter should first be raised privately with Dublin.

More recently, Ghoreishi disagreed with Milstein’s effort to get the State Department to refer to the West Bank by its biblical name, "Judea and Samaria.

Milstein had drafted a statement praising House Speaker Mike Johnson for "making history as the highest-ranking US official and first speaker of the House to ever go to Judea and Samaria."

Ghoreishi managed to have the line cut before it was shared with the media, The Post said.

The State Department did not provide Ghoreishi with a reason for his dismissal, which isn’t required, as he was a contractor.

State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott confirmed the firing, while also indicating the reason in a statement to The Post.

"We do not comment on leaked emails or allegations. Federal employees should never put their personal political ideologies ahead of the duly elected president’s agenda," Pigott said.

Ghoreishi told The Post his firing raises troubling questions about the US stance on the potential expulsion of Paleostinians.

"Despite a strong reputation and close working relationship with many of my colleagues, I was unable to survive these disputes," he said, stressing that the language he used in the rejected statement condemning the displacement of Paleostinians had been previously approved by the State Department in recent months.

Ghoreishi’s allies in the State Department, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told the Post that he was not a rogue employee who opposed administration policy and had even crafted a February tweet from Rubio declaring that the US wanted to "’Make Gaza Beautiful Again.'"

Ghoreishi told the Post he was not motivated by his opposition to Trump and had been inspired by the May speech the president gave in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
"Trump called out neocons and western interventionists for failing the Middle East, and claimed he wanted to help pave a new path for the region. The hawks on the seventh floor of the State Department do not match that vision," Ghoreishi said, referring to the floor that houses Rubio’s and the rest of the office’s top leadership.

As news of Ghoreishi’s ouster went public on Wednesday, far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Trump adviser Laura Loomer called the former press officer a "Pro-Iranian Regime Jihadi Moslem Tied To NIAC."

Ghoreishi said he interned in 2013 at the National Iranian American Council, a pro-Islamic Theocratic Republic organization known chiefly for its lobbying in favor of the 2015 Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
nuclear deal.

Loomer has taken credit for the State Department’s Saturday decision to halt the granting of temporary visas to Gazook children who have been coming to the US for medical treatment.

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#1 So, who hired Shahed Ghoreishi to be USDS spokesperson?
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