A former US ambassador to Israel is calling for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) to resign following her response to the terrorist attacks against Israel, claiming she “embarrassed herself.”

Aryeh Lightstone, who served as a senior adviser to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman from 2017 to 2021, blasted Whtimer on X Sunday for her pathetic response to Hamas brutally attacking Israel.

“I have been in touch with communities impacted by what’s happening in the region. It is abhorrent. My heart is with all those impacted. We need peace in this region,” Whitmer wrote on X, somehow forgetting to mention Israel at all.

“I hosted you for Thanksgiving in Israel just a few years ago. I am embarrassed for you and by you & disappointed that I opened my home and my family to you,” Lightstone angrily responded to her.

This is a pathetic statement.

Why can’t you say you support Israel?

This is the Left in America. Wise up. https://t.co/H1iYyiaO3T

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 8, 2023

Aryeh Lightstone, who served as senior advisor to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman during the Trump administration, said he is embarrassed for Whitmer and is disappointed that he once hosted her for Thanksgiving in Israel.

— mike ruger (@RugerBncurtis) October 8, 2023

Lightstone, who is currently in Israel experiencing the attacks first-hand, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he was shocked by the “fraudulent nature” of Whitmer’s lame response.

“The job of a leader is to know the difference between right and wrong. The job of a politician is apparently to say nothing, and she demonstrated that she’s a politician,” he bitterly noted.

“She watched this happen in real-time. And to watch women and children being kidnapped and raped and murdered, and to not be able to say something? She should resign immediately,” Lightstone asserted.

The former adviser hosted Whitmer, her husband, and 25 other Michigan residents at his home in Israel for a Thanksgiving meal in 2019.

Say their names…Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

I know this is hard for rich, white liberals like yourself.

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 8, 2023

“She was in Israel. She saw what happened. She went to the border. She saw the people,” he recounted. “I’m a Republican… but she wanted a place for Thanksgiving and every American should have a place to go for Thanksgiving. So I welcomed her into my home and I invited 25 Michiganders at my expense to host them.”

Lightstone says he has previously spoken with Whitmer about the U.S.-Israel relationship and ways to strengthen it.

Whitmer, ever the politician, evidently realized she stepped in it and tried to fix it with another post.

“The images that continue to come out of Israel on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War are devastating. The loss of lives in Israel –children and families – is absolutely heartbreaking and appalling,” the governor said. “There is no justification for violence against Israel. My support is steadfast.”

The images that continue to come out of Israel on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War are devastating. The loss of lives in Israel –children and families – is absolutely heartbreaking and appalling. There is no justification for violence against Israel. My support is steadfast.

— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) October 8, 2023

Lightstone was not impressed. He contends she only posted it because she was “embarrassed for herself.”

“There’s only two sides of this. There’s a right side and a wrong side. She chose the wrong side,” he told Fox News. “I don’t think she’s a bad person. I just think she’s a politician.”

Your support is so steadfast you couldn’t state it the first time around and had to be twitter shamed into a second statement

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 8, 2023

“During his conversation with Fox, Lightstone also underscored his work to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship while serving with Friedman. Specifically, he touted the Abraham Accords, which were negotiated by the Trump administration and first signed in 2020. The agreements secured diplomatic relations between four Muslim-majority countries with Israel, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan,” Fox News reported.

“Israel is resilient, Israel is strong, but Israel is going through the worst day in its history. Saying anything short of that is mischaracterizing the day. It’s the worst day in Israel’s history,” he commented.

“Israel has never asked for and never will ask for a single American troop on the ground here,” Lightstone noted. “Every one of these people chanting ‘death to Israel’ finishes the sentence with ‘death to America.'”

“Some people did something again.”

— Nick (@Nickster0188) October 8, 2023

He also insisted there “can be no whataboutism” about the situation taking place in Israel.

“There is no parallel. This is not a competition between two sides that both have merit. One is a side of animals and the other is the side of democracy. This is the clearest distinction I’ve seen in my life since 9/11,” Lightstone concluded.

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