Middle East
The plan does not call for a land invasion of troops, which would require more than 120,000 soldiers, said administration officials.
The U.S. president did not elaborate on the threat, saying, “You can figure it out yourself. They know what I mean by it.”
“Congresswoman [Rashida] Tlaib’s ignorance is exceeded only by her gall. Had she read no further than Wikipedia, she would know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, helped the Nazis recruit Bosnian Muslims for the Waffen-SS,” said American Jewish scholar Jonathan Sarna.
“There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors—Palestinians—who lost their land and some lost their lives ...,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said via podcast.
The Trump administration’s “deal of the century” will support permanent Israeli control over all towns currently in Israeli hands, and will not oppose application of Israeli law throughout the West Bank.
As tensions rise between the United States and Iran, the Pentagon has authorized the deployment of a Patriot missile battery to the Mideast.
As sanctions cripple the Iranian economy and the Trump administration ends oil waivers for certain countries, Tehran is lashing back, including with threats of closing the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran’s non-oil exports, like industrial metals, are not an insignificant source of revenue for the regime, and [represent] one of several cash flows that should be impeded,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“Israel, we have shared values. Our friend in the Middle East for a long time—our only friend, our most serious partner in the Middle East, let me put it that way,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “So Israel’s security is very, very important to us.”
Jordan is wary of the Mideast peace plan expected to be presented by the White House in June, after the Muslim month of Ramadan.
It remains unclear if Iran would launch the missiles from the boats, or if the regime is moving the missiles by boat for Iranian ground forces.
Semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that a spokesperson for Iran’s supreme national security council, Keyvan Khosravi, said “Bolton’s statement is a clumsy use of a burnt-out happening for psychological warfare.”
