A former United States State Department press officer, Shahed Ghoreishi, claims that United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his senior adviser are steering United States policy on Israel away from President Donald Trump's stated 'America First' approach. Ghoreishi was dismissed after a series of disputes over language in official statements regarding sensitive incidents in Gaza and the West Bank, including the deaths of journalists and the issue of Palestinian displacement. He alleges that Huckabee and adviser David Milstein have consistently pushed for positions that align more closely with Israeli interests, sidelining the president's own rhetoric and undermining standard diplomatic guardrails. The State Department has declined to comment on the specifics of Ghoreishi's firing, but he contends that his dismissal was intended as a warning to others who might challenge the embassy's leadership or advocate for independent United States interests in the region.