“You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,” said about Israel.
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Just wake up and smell the coffee.
That’s the message Vice President JD Vance has for critics in Israel of the Trump administration when it comes to their reaction to the current peace deal formulated towards Iran. Lately some of the Israeli leaders have been critical of the U.S. for not continuing the war against Tehran.
But Vance says that Israel should not belittle the U.S., the country that is the last major remaining ally of the Israelis.
“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said near the end of an hourlong White House briefing with reporters, according to a story by Newsmax.
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Vance panned Israel for a “weird panic” and “freakout” over the deal struck between the U.S. and Iran, in an interview released on Thursday as the Trump administration sought to tamp down criticism of the truce.
Officials from Israel across the country and in all political areas, including some of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies, have blasted the agreement, saying it did not address their concerns over Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and would tie down Israel’s military operations against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
“There is this weird panic almost in the Israeli system that I’ve picked up on where they assume that everything that is contemplated that is good for Iran will happen — but that will happen without the Iranians changing any behavior,” Vance said in an interview with The New York Times.
“That’s not how the deal is written.”
Quoting specific critics of the deal — far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich — Vance said: “I guess my response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
Ben-Gvir responded in a post on X: “This is the proposal, @JDVance: To deal with the Nazis of the 21st century, just as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century.”
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