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Senators grill Trump’s pick for Kuwait ambassador over anti-Israel stances, seasoned diplomat tapped to lead Gaza ceasefire monitoring hub

2025-10-25

[IsraelTimes] Amer Ghalib, a Michigan mayor who backed Trump during 2024 campaign, questioned by lawmakers over city adopting Israel boycott policy, liking of post comparing Jews to monkeys

After Amer Ghalib became the most prominent Moslem politician in the country to endorse Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
for president last year, he did so on pro-Paleostinian grounds. And he was rewarded with a plum position: the administration’s ambassadorship to Kuwait.

But the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, had to get through Senate approval first. And at Thursday’s confirmation hearing before the foreign relations committee, multiple Republicans broke rank and took Ghalib to task for his past social media posts and actions about Jews and Israel.

"It appears you have a deep-felt and passionate view about the Middle East," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz;

...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
told Ghalib. "But it is a view that is in direct conflict with the policy positions of President Trump and this administration."

Cruz grilled the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
-born mayor on Hamtramck becoming the first American city to adopt a boycott, divestment and sanctions policy against Israel; on his previous "liking" of Facebook posts comparing Jews to monkeys; and on his past stances opposing the Abraham Accords.

He wasn’t the only Republican to take issue with Ghalib. Sens. David McCormick of Pennsylvania and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska also harshly questioned the mayor on his views on Jews and Israel.

Ghalib did not disavow any of his past stances or posts. The BDS resolution, he said, had been drafted by the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace

… neither Jewish nor for peace, it was founded by Hamas BDS activist Hatem Bazian, while its social media managers live in Lebanon and a large chunk of its funding comes from the Soros Open Society Foundations. But some of its useful idiots identify as “Jewish”…

and approved unanimously by the city council. "It wasn’t my idea," he said. "We don’t have any companies that deal with Israel in our city." He said he had no power to remove a city council official who had said that the Holocaust was advance punishment for Israel.

He "liked" the Facebook post about monkeys, he said, because he used to "like" every post on his feed before becoming mayor. "The person who wrote it is mentally challenged in our community," he said of the post, later adding, "It’s definitely antisemitism, but clicking on it doesn’t mean I endorse that."

"Actually, ’like’ means exactly that," Cruz retorted.

In response to a question from McCormick about whether he would "accept President Trump’s view that Israel is and should be the national home of the Jewish people," Ghalib dodged. "I think we can coexist in the region and that’s the answer, that everybody has the right to exist now," he said. "I trust the president’s policies and I will support his policies."

At the end of the hearing, Cruz said he would vote no on confirming Ghalib, putting the mayor’s appointment on shaky ground.

Ghalib had endorsed Trump after previously siding with the "Uncommitted" movement that had targeted then-president Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
’s support for Israel. In a meeting with Trump before his endorsement, the mayor said the two had discussed the possibility of a ceasefire in 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...
. Michigan, which has a large Arab population, wound up swinging to Trump.

A separate nominee at the same hearing, South Africa ambassador hopeful Leo Bozell, pledged to push the country to end its genocide charge against Israel in front of the International Court of Justice.

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