Bill Clinton urges Trump to 'defuse' Israel-Iran crisis

Former President Bill Clinton called connected President Donald Trump to "defuse" the existent struggle betwixt Israel and Iran during an quality connected "The Daily Show" connected Tuesday.

So far, the U.S. has stayed retired of nonstop enactment successful the conflict, but it has helped Israel sprout down missiles from Tehran. There are immoderate indications, however, that the Trump medication could determination to get much straight progressive successful the conflict.

While the erstwhile president expressed skepticism astir Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump's intentions regarding bid successful the Middle East, helium urged the existent president to calm the concern and extremity the "outright changeless sidesplitting of civilians."

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Former President Bill Clinton urged President Trump to assistance "defuse" the struggle betwixt Iran and Israel and extremity the "outright changeless sidesplitting of civilians."

"First of each — they're not talking astir negotiating bid successful the Middle East due to the fact that the Israelis person nary volition of… nether Prime Minister Netanyahu, of giving the Palestinians a state. And now, they're excessively divided and crushed to signifier themselves to execute it," Clinton said.

He continued, maintaining that Trump agrees with Netanyahu successful believing that the Palestinians "shouldn't person a state." However, helium added that neither person wants to trigger a full-scale determination disaster.

"Mr. Netanyahu has agelong wanted to combat Iran due to the fact that that mode helium tin enactment successful bureau everlastingly and ever. I mean, he's been determination astir of the past 20 years," the erstwhile president said. "But I deliberation we should beryllium trying to defuse it, and I anticipation President Trump volition bash that."

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Clinton emphasized the value of the U.S. protecting its allies successful the region, portion simultaneously advocating for restraint.

Clinton agreed with Trump that preventing Iran from obtaining a atomic limb is important and stressed redeeming guiltless lives successful the conflict. (Getty Images)

"We person to person our friends successful the Middle East that we’ll basal with them and effort to support them," helium stated. "But choosing undeclared wars successful which the superior victims are civilians, who are not politically involved, 1 mode oregon the other, who conscionable privation to unrecorded decent lives, is not a precise bully solution."

Clinton conceded that the U.S. needs to effort and halt Iran from obtaining a atomic weapon, but again stressed the value of redeeming guiltless lives successful the region.

"Do I deliberation that we person to effort to halt Iran from having a atomic weapon? I do," helium declared. "But we don't person to person each this outright changeless sidesplitting of civilians who can't support themselves, and they conscionable privation a accidental to live."

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Fox News' Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.