Robert Wilkie to Newsmax: In Israel’s Interest to Listen to Trump

Mere hours after Israel and Iran had agreed to a mutual ceasefire, both countries began launching missile strikes at each other. President Donald Trump scolded both nations Tuesday morning, urging them to stop the attacks. “It’s in Israel’s interest to listen to the president,” former Undersecretary of Defense Robert Wilkie told Newsmax.

“Let me just say in the annals of modern warfare, what they’ve been able to do is stunning. It even matches or even surpasses what they did in the ’67 war. But, no, it’s in their interest to listen to the president,” Wilkie said during an appearance on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”

Wilkie said a danger to the U.S. now is “what the Iranians can do outside of their own country.”

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