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 clear message. In demanding more respect, raising the threat of severe consequences and ordering the country to get in line, the Vice President echoed the public fight he picked with another world leader and US ally: Volodymyr Zelensky.
It wasn’t quite as spectacular as the now infamous Oval Office blow up in February last year between Trump, Vance and the Ukrainian president. But Vance went further in his criticism of Israel than any other US President or Vice President in recent memory. He expressed his irritation with Israeli officials and Cabinet members, including Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who have criticized President Trump’s proto-peace deal, saying it will hand billions of dollars to Tehran and fail to guarantee Israeli security. Ben-Gvir says that Israel is not bound by it. Vance declared, to the world’s press:
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