With Bolton gone, Israelis and Neocons are scared

With Bolton gone, Israelis and Neocons are scared

Iran is not America’s enemy. Israel is. Israel has been a thorn in America’s backyard since 1948, and it is about time that US politicians say goodbye to what serious scholars and thinkers have viewed as a complete disaster.

By Jonas E. Alexis - September 13, 2019

John Bolton, without a doubt, was one of Israel’s finest puppets and political prostitutes in the White House. He was also well liked in Neocon think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute. It was Bolton himself who perversely declared that “Israel can serve as a model for American security.”[1]

Bolton, because he served his Israeli masters really well, won the “Defender of Israel” award last year.[2] In fact, he received all kinds of accolades by Israeli officials when it was announced that he was going to be one of Trump’s advisors in the White House.[3] Bolton had to wear different hats because he was also a political snitch. He once told Israeli officials that Condoleezza Rice “sold you out.” Israel’s former UN ambassador, Dan Gillerman, remembered:

“One night, Bolton warned the Israelis what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was planning. ‘In that case John Bolton got in touch with me at about 8 o’clock in the evening, which was 3 in the morning in Israel, calling to say ‘You have to call your prime minister and tell him that Condi Rice sold you out to the French…’ I woke the prime minister up at 3 a.m. Israel time, and that actually brought about a total change in the final resolution.”[4]

The Daily Beast reported:

“In her 2011 autobiography, Rice said she learned ‘several years later’ that ‘Bolton had been sharing information with the Israelis through their U.N. ambassador without permission to do so. That practice had backfired, as the Israeli ambassador was one step behind the discussions between the White House and the prime minister’s office.’ Responding to Rice’s comment in 2011, Bolton told The Daily Beast: ‘Of course I kept the Israelis informed about the state of play in the negotiations. That’s how you treat close allies.’”[5]

Now that Bolton has been kicked out of the White House, the Israelis again are sad and scared because they lost one of their guys. As Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency himself puts it, “a broader concern for Israel could be the reinforcement of Trump’s isolationist tendencies. Bolton was often seen as agitating for a more robust American military posture, a tendency Trump has resisted.”[6]

The Neocons and Israelis are also worried because it seems that no one will be able to push for the United States to invade Iran. Bloomberg itself tells us that “Israel Fears Abrupt Trump Reversal on Iran After Bolton Fired.” We are told that “Bolton’s exit delivered a blow to Israel’s policy of isolating and economically clobbering the Islamic Republic.”[7]

Danielle Pletka, a vice president at the American Enterprise Institute (Bolton works there), lamented: “There are people in the president’s inner circle who disagree with American global leadership. There are people inside the White House who think defense spending and foreign aid are money wasted and we should deal with things at home.”[8]

Bolton is politically gone. Now is the time for Trump to step up a rigorous foreign policy. The Jewish Daily Forward agrees that “The firing of an administration official working in Israel’s stated interest couldn’t help but raise questions about the limits of what Trump will do for Netanyahu.”[9]

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