Mofaz: Bolton wanted Israel to attack Iran

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Sun Mar 25, 2018, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Al Jazeera

A former Israeli defence minister has said that US President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, once tried to convince him to attack Iran.

"I knew John Bolton since he was United States ambassador to the United Nations," Shaul Mofaz, who served as defence chief from 2002 to 2006, told a conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

"He tried to convince me that Israel needs to attack Iran," Mofaz said, the Ynet news site reported.

Mofaz said Bolton pressured him to carry out the attack when he served as UN ambassador under George W Bush.

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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/mofaz-bolton-wanted-israel-attack-iran-180325104020053.html

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Mofaz added that he doesn't "think this was smart, not on the side of the Americans today and not on the side of anyone until the threat is real."



Editing to add that this is also being reported by the Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Former-defense-minister-Mofaz-Bolton-tried-to-convince-me-to-attack-Iran-547019

and Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/former-israeli-defense-chief-says-bolton-pressured-him-to-strike-iran-1.5938534


Haven't seen anything on it yet from mainstream American media.

[gopiscrap]

1. God I hope he flunks his security screening

[sarge43]

8. What security screening?

If Jar-Jar didn't have one ...

[dameatball]

2. How many damn failed retreads do we have to go through?? Can't wait for November.

[Aristus]

3. Typical Neo-Con.

Always happy to have a war, as long as someone else is doing the fighting...

[azureblue]

4. K then

Bolton, YOU get a gun and YOU attack Iran, if you want it so bad....

Effin wimp won't put his ass where his mouth is.

[highplainsdem]

5. Kicking after editing the OP to add links to two other stories about this.

[pangaia]

6. Mainstream American media doesn't even know where Iran is.

[sarge43]

7. "Let's you and him fight."

The motto of the 101st Chicken Hawk Corps.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. With his love of WAR, I wonder if Bolton is one of these Christians

that believe that Jesus will not return until there are only 144,000 Jews alive on the planet. Or, maybe Bolton is doing his best to facilitate the outbreak of Armegeddon to hasten Jesus's return...

If you think this sounds crazy, think again... Our government and military is under the control of a madman who may cater to a political party full of misfits who believe these things simply because he wants to be re-elected...

[Crowman2009]

10. I wish the vast majority of Israelis would realize that these american Talabangelicals want to...

...kill them! Well I know the secular left-wing Israelis get it. But the facist Likud assholes don't, and cater to these religious pricks like Pat Roberson and Pastor Hagee.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. Seriously? Isrealis don't know

that many US evangelicals are pro Israel because they want Israelis to die so that some New Testament prophesy can be fulfilled?

[Wolf Frankula]

12. Israel Says the US should Strike Iran

Let's have nobody attack Iran.

Wolf