Bolton has called the UN Security Council condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem "vindictive" and intended to trap the president-elect.
"I just think it was a very bad idea," Bolton said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. "It was vindictive, because everybody knows that Donald Trump has a different policy view and this is intended to try to box him in."
- In a strange turn of logic, though, Bolton also called for the incoming administration to take action against the United Nations and the member countries who supported the resolution, despite the fact that the US's historic decision to abstain from voting and not use its veto power that let the resolution pass.
"I think what Israel together with the incoming Trump administration should do is say, ‘Look, we're going to give everybody a chance to do this over again, repeal this resolution and pass something that's acceptable,'" Bolton said.
"And if not, we're going to take steps to show our unhappiness," he added, proposing financial methods of pressure, including cutting foreign aid to some countries — in particular, Malaysia and Venezuela, where people are starving because of the sharp drop in oil prices in 2014.
[sputniknews.com]
2/1/17
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