In this video, Bolton speaks plain and obvious truths. That what he said is at all controversial is a manifestation of how far the establishment media and the establishment Left have strayed from reality.
“John Bolton says Palestine ‘is not a state,'” by Steven Nelson, Washington Examiner, October 3, 2018:
National security adviser John Bolton defended calling Palestine a “so-called state,” saying Wednesday “it is not a state.”
Bolton, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, said that denying Palestine’s statehood isn’t counterproductive as the Trump administration prepares to unveil a Mideast peace plan.
“It’s not a state now. It does not meet the customary international law test of statehood,” he said. “It doesn’t control defined boundaries. It doesn’t fulfill normal functions of government. There are a whole host of reasons why it’s not a state.”
“It could become a state, as the president said, but that requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others,” Bolton continued….
“Calling it the so-called state of Palestine defines exactly what it has been, a position that the United States government has pursued uniformly since 1988 when the Palestinian authority declared itself to be the State of Palestine,” he said. “We don’t recognize it as the State of Palestine, we have consistently across Democratic and Republican administrations opposed the admission of Palestine to the United Nations as a state because it’s not a state.”