Appearing on Glenn Beck today, former United Nations ambassador John Bolton said President Obama’s address to the UN General Assembly today was “the most radical anti-Israel speech I can recall any President making.”
Obama emphasized his opposition to Israeli settlements and called for a contiguous Palestinian state, which Bolton called “very close” to, as Beck said, “selling out Israel.”
“We’ve put Israel on a chopping block,” Bolton said.
At one point, Beck claimed Obama is anti-Semitic and tried to get Bolton to do the same.
“Do you think it’s possible to sit in a church with someone who’s as anti-Semitic as Jeremiah Wright and not come away with an anti-Semitic view?” he asked, referring to Obama’s former pastor.
Bolton declined to go quite so far.
“At a minimum, he was asleep for 20 years,” he said. “Or we need an explanation.