President Joe Biden pressuring Israel to stop its war on Hamas terrorists is an unprecedented snub of a longtime ally, former national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday.
"This is the kind of break between the U.S. and Israel that is just unprecedented, to put this sort of pressure on an American ally like that in the middle of what they see as an existential threat," Bolton told "The Cats Roundtable" on WABC 770 AM-N.Y., The Hill reported.
Israel is working on achieving three publicly stated goals of its war on Hamas after terrorists took an estimated 250 Israeli hostages in its Oct. 7 terror attack, to use them as human shields, and leverage for a terrorist-held state in Gaza, Israeli officials told Newsmax:
- Return all the hostages.
- Eradicate Hamas terrorists.
- Demilitarize and deradicalize Gaza.
But, facing pressure from anti-Israel leftist protesters and pro-Palestinian progressives of his Democratic Party, Biden is warning against Israel completing the sweeping of the last Hamas terrorist hideouts in the Rafah border city with Egypt.
"The left wing of the Democratic Party and the concern that they would stay home in November" is unfortunately guiding Biden's break from Israel and the war on terrorism on its border in the Middle East, Bolton told host John Catsimatidis.
As pressure, Biden would effectively cut Israel "loose if they proceed," threatening to withhold arms to attack the final terrorist hideouts, and Bolton — who said they have "come to an amazing point" — wondered why Biden would pressure Israel and not the terrorists in Rafah. That sends "a very bad" message to Russia and China he said.
It effectively gives Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping a road map to keeping the U.S. at bay if they had designs on reconstituting the former Soviet Union or invading Taiwan, according to Bolton.
"I mean, if we won't come to Israel’s support, what are we going to do," he told Catsimatidis, "if Russia or China threatened countries along their borders that are not so close to the United States?
"I mean, people have to wonder," he concluded, "if we're not going to follow through on our commitments to Israel, who will we follow through on?"
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