Vance warns Israeli officials against attacking Trump, their ‘only powerful ally’

Vice President Vance warned Israeli officials Thursday against speaking out and criticizing the peace deal negotiated by President Trump’s administration with Iran, suggesting Israel should be grateful for partnership with the U.S. while it is isolated on the international stage. 

“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 at a press conference at the White House. 

“The other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.”

Vance was responding to a question about a report in Axios that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “fuming” over the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the U.S. and Iran. 

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