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Liberal Jewish groups condemned the appointment of US President Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser on Wednesday, casting him as an Islamophobic warmonger who would pose a danger to the security of the United States and Israel.
The six organizations charged that former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is “an unrepentant defender of the Iraq war and his bellicose ideology could very well start us down the path to another unnecessary war of choice.”
The hawkish ex-diplomat and Fox News personality is known for urging preemptive strikes on countries trying to develop nuclear programs, including North Korea and Iran. In March 2015, he penned an op-ed in The New York Times titled “To stop Iran’s bomb, bomb Iran.”