{"id":500037,"date":"2026-06-19T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:10:10","slug":"jd-vance-tells-iran-deal-critics-in-israel-trump-is-your-only-ally-left-in-the-world-jd-vance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500037\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance tells Iran deal critics in Israel: Trump is your only ally left in the world | JD Vance"},"content":{"rendered":"

US vice-president JD Vance has lashed out at Israeli critics of the Iran deal, saying Donald Trump<\/a> is Israel\u2019s only ally left in the world, in a sharp rebuke that referenced the billions in defence aid \u2060the country receives from America.<\/p>\n

Vance was defending the deal \u2060reached this week to end the war \u200bwith Iran<\/a> that critics in the US and Israel have slammed<\/a> for failing to curb Iran\u2019s missile program and providing no clear path to dismantling its nuclear facilities, while constraining Israel in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Vance, asked at a White House news briefing about a report that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fuming over the agreement<\/a>, \u2060said he had not heard such comments from Netanyahu but criticised members of the Israeli leader\u2019s cabinet, who he said have attacked the deal and personally attacked Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy message to them would be twofold. \u200bNo 1: Donald J Trump is the only head of state in the entire world \u200cwho is sympathetic to the nation of Israel<\/a> at this \u200cmoment in time,\u201d Vance told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left \u200cin the entire world.\u201c<\/p>\n

He said he would also remind those cabinet members that two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected Israel \u201chave been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US provides Israel with roughly $4bn in military assistance a year, but the two countries are negotiating a new aid agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem for Israel is not Donald J Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference on Monday following the US-Iran deal. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly criticised longtime ally Israel<\/a>, spiking tensions \u2060nearly four months after the two countries partnered to attack Iran. The war has roiled markets and global oil supplies<\/a> as Tehran responded by closing the critical strait of Hormuz supply route.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s office and Israel\u2019s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

But Israeli senior officials, speaking anonymously, have said the deal terms were bad \u200cfor Israel because they failed to address concerns over Iran\u2019s nuclear and ballistic missile program, a view they say is shared across Israel\u2019s leadership. Trump tried to play down Israel\u2019s concerns during closing remarks on Wednesday at the G7 summit in France. Netanyahu could use a \u201csofter touch\u201d in the fight against Hezbollah militants \u200bin Lebanon, Trump said.<\/p>\n

In his first comments since the deal, Netanyahu said at a public event that Israel appreciated its relationship with the US but would continue to occupy southern Lebanon to maintain security for citizens living near Israel\u2019s northern border.<\/p>\n

Israel published a map on Thursday showing an expanded military control zone in southern Lebanon and said it would not rule out carrying out attacks beyond it, challenging the terms of the US-Iran agreement.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s far-right national \u2060security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, a linchpin in Netanyahu\u2019s governing coalition, has harshly rebuked the US-Iran deal and insisted Israeli troops would remain in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Vance \u200bcriticised Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich in a New York Times \u200binterview released earlier on Thursday. \u201cWhat is your exact proposal? You\u2019re a \u200bcountry of 9 million people. You can\u2019t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find this whole \u200bfreakout in Israel a little bit odd because \u200cI think that it comes from \u200ba place of mistrust, and I think that \u200bAmerica has earned the trust of that region, of the world,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

Ben-Gvir responded to Vance\u2019s remarks on X, saying: \u201cThis is the proposal … To deal with the Nazis of the 21st century, just as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century.\u201c<\/p>\n

Trump, in a social media post after Vance\u2019s remarks on Thursday, said he encouraged everyone in the Middle East to maintain their commitment to allowing negotiations to take place. \u201cWe expect a complete Ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US vice-president JD Vance has lashed out at Israeli critics of the Iran deal, saying Donald Trump is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-500037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}