By JTA and COLlive
President Donald Trump named as his national security adviser John Bolton, a hawk who has said military strikes may be inevitable as a means of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
The White House announced Thursday evening that H.R. McMaster was leaving the position and that Bolton would take his place by April 9.
Naming Bolton suggests Trump is ready to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal by May 12, the deadline for Trump to waive sanctions. The deal trades sanctions relief for a rollback of Iran’s nuclear program.
Bolton is a staunch opponent of the deal, as is Mike Pompeo, the CIA chief Trump nominated last week to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.
Bolton has close relations with the pro-Israel community stemming from his success in 1991 in getting the United Nations to rescind its Zionism is racism resolution. Bolton was at the time the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under President George H. W. Bush.
Bush’s son, George W. Bush, nominated Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations in 2005 and named him acting ambassador. Bolton also served as the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.
In 2012, Bolton came to Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood to headline a gala in support of the Gush Katif Museum, memorializing Israel’s evacuation from the Gaza strip in another failed attempt at peace.
Bolton spoke about the grave danger posed by Iran and criticized the administration of then-President Barack Obama for not properly addressing the great threat posed by their nuclear weapons.
“From its inception, Israel has had to defend itself repeatedly,” he said. “Great powers have tried to destroy it, terrorists have attacked it.” Still, he said, the US has imposed ineffective sanctions on Iran which have done nothing to stop them.
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He was keynote speaker by bnos Menachem dinner last year
Bolton is the man.Now is the time.MHM is ready.Let’s make it happen.👍👍👍
Moshiach is here! Henai hoo ba!