J.D. Vance didn’t call Benjamin Netanyahu out by name, but in sternly reprimanding the “Cabinet of the Israeli government” from the White House podium on Thursday, he sent Israel and its Prime Minister a very clear and ominously familiar message. In demanding more respect, raising the threat of severe consequences and ordering the country to get in line, the Vice President was echoing the public fight he picked with another world leader and one-time US ally: Volodymyr Zelensky.
And just like that fiery chastisement last February, Vance went further than any other Trump Cabinet member has to date in his criticism. He was irritated with Israeli Cabinet members including Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich who have publicly attacked President Trump’s proto-peace deal. They say it will hand billions of dollars to Tehran and fail to guarantee Israeli security. Ben-Gvir says that Israel is not bound by it.
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