John Bolton, who served as Donald Trump’s nationwide safety adviser in his first time period, slammed the president on Thursday over his proposal that the U.S. take over the Gaza Strip.
Bolton, now a frequent Trump critic whose Secret Service safety was not too long ago revoked by the president, cited two points with a plan that’s been questioned by some Republican lawmakers.
“The primary is what’s the U.S. position going to be post-war in Gaza? I don’t suppose it is going to look something like what Trump recommended on Tuesday evening,” mentioned Bolton in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“I don’t suppose there’d be any assist for it. It’d be very harmful within the circumstances,” he mentioned. “He doesn’t need to put troops in, which wouldn’t be advisable anyway. So numerous that, I believe, you may simply disregard.”
He then turned to a “essential” subject on whether or not there shall be makes an attempt at an “utterly failed, utterly dead” two-state answer for Israel and Palestine earlier than questioning what the humanitarian response shall be for Palestinians.
“So there’s quite a bit to determine there and I believe merely rebuilding a high-rise refugee camp in Gaza is a prescription for one more Oct. 7 in the end,” he mentioned.
Trump, in a press convention with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed resettling roughly 2 million Palestinians out of Gaza and redeveloping the territory into “the Riviera of the Center East.”
Bolton, who was requested what he’d do as nationwide safety adviser if Trump got here to him together with his Gaza proposal, mentioned he’d ask the president if he’s thought-about the safety required for such an effort and the “lack of possible non-public buyers to place billions of {dollars} into an space that’s topic to terrorist assaults.”
“Keep in mind the saying, ‘Capital is a coward.’ You’re not gonna get non-public funding in a extremely politically dangerous, non-secure state of affairs. You need to get safety earlier than you get the funding,” he mentioned.
“That’s why this complete concept of the Jap Mediterranean Riviera is simply completely unrealistic.”
H/T Mediaite
