GORKA TELLS ‘POST’: not done enough to de-incen- BANNON tivize terrorists. Continued from Page 1 By focusing on killing low-level, lone-wolf terrorists, favorable tone toward Israel they are not attacking the root Steve Bannon camp did not cure Israel’s concrete of the problem, according to security concerns, Gorka said Gorka’s model. - as a private individual - he The current administration would note that Trump was still must attack the “center of grav- running into interference on ity” of terrorist organizations, still has influence foreign affairs from the bureau- he said, which he described as cratic state. the people with hundreds of “Trump is the quintessential thousands of Twitter followers. disruptor,” he said, but added He did note that the US is that “even a disruptor fighting bound by the First Amend- with Trump team 15, 20 years of institutional ment, and that effectively momentum” faces “massive removing content from social inertia” in trying to fix “20 media sites would be stifling ‘We left the building but we did not years of disastrous foreign pol- freedoms of speech and expres- icy.” sion. However, he suggested Honing in on how disturbed that threats of national secu- leave the president/says controversial the Jewish community was rity outweigh the “videos on about Trump’s reaction to YouTube that seek to kill you ex-White House staffer during Israel visit recent white supremacist vio- and your children.” • lence and incitement in Char- • By YONAH JEREMY BOB Kelly would need to buy into lottesville, Virginia, he “reject- and SHOSHANA KRANISH Trump to have lasting influ- ed new labels.” wal Institute ence. Gorka said that Trump The Steve Bannon camp still Gorka was pressed on how “unequivocally condemned has sway with US President Trump could continue to Nazis, antisemites and fascists,” Donald Trump, former White claim the pro-Israel mantle, and pointed out that he has House senior staffer Sebastian after many Israelis thought Jewish grandchildren. Gorka told The Jerusalem Post he had thrown Israeli security He was asked how any of that on Monday. interests under the bus in a absolved the president from “The president remains Syria cease-fire deal. making what many viewed as a loyal to those who served Israel issued a rare public false equivalence between vio- him well. We left the build- rebuke of the Trump deal lent white supremacist actions ing, we did not leave Trump,” with Russian President Vladi- in Charlottesville and the non- explained Gorka on the side- mir Putin, as the deal did not violent activism of some left- lines of IDC Herzliya’s Inter- include provisions to keep wing activists there. national Institute for Count- SEBASTIAN GORKA Iran off the Syrian side of Gorka responded that this (Kfir Bolotin) er-Terrorism conference. the Golan border. That is an obscured Trump’s broader Bannon was a Trump issue of major concern, since point that the media focuses co-campaign manager and a dieted that “the current state it could give Iran a new point endlessly on right-wing vio- chief White House strategist of affairs” in which compet- from which to threaten the lence but underplays left-wing who was recently forced out ing ideologies have grown in country. violence - giving James Hod- after a prolonged battle with power within the administra- Gorka said unequivocally, gkinson, who attacked Repub- others in the Trump admin- tion “is temporary, and very “No one has thrown any- lican congressmen, and a left- istration considered to be soon the president will realize one under the bus. We stand wing Oregon man who knifed more moderate. Gorka, who he is not being well served by shoulder-to-shoulder with multiple people, as examples. worked for Bannon, resigned his senior staff.” Israel as our strongest ally in Later, Gorka spoke at the con- shortly thereafter. He said that once that the region.” ference itself, saying he does Gorka said that three weeks occurs, Trump will ask “peo- Explaining further, he said, not believe the US is winning ago, when he resigned from pie associated with his ide- “The president’s priority was the war on terrorism. the Trump administration, ology to come back,” which simply to stop the bloodshed. His argument was twofold. was when he felt that Trump’s could include advisers like A political resolution, the On one hand, he said, the new Afghanistan policy and ex-campaign manager Corey future of Assad and the dispo- Bush, Obama, and Trump other policies contradicted Lewandowski, from whom sition of Iranian forces” were administrations have focused the “Make America Great Trump never stopped regular- all issues the US would still too heavily on the physical Again” and “America First” ly taking advice. attend to, even if they were aspect of terrorism instead of ideologies, but that he would While acknowledging that not part of the initial deal. focusing on undermining the “still support Trump from the White House Chief of Staff “The bottom line is, this is ideology of those they seek to outside.” John Kelly had brought about the most pro-Israeli admin- defeat. Trump’s strategy, Gorka He said that Tmmp called him “a drastic change in the way istration, not just in modern said, is one of obliteration of the day after he resigned and things are done inside the times but since 1776,” he said. ISIS, but added this also does “assured me that he will stay on White House,” Gorka implied When it was noted that a not address the bigger issue. with his original agenda.” that on ideology and even On the other hand, he said In that spirit, Gorka pre- matters of Trumpian-style, See BANNON, Page 10 that the US - like Israel and other Western countries - has