{"id":514277,"date":"2026-06-27T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:41:19","slug":"vance-signals-a-new-america-where-israel-is-no-longer-the-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514277\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance signals a new America where Israel is no longer the exception"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIsrael had expected when President Donald Trump came into office that his America First foreign policy would include \u2018an exception\u2019 for Israel,\u201d an Israeli political adviser told Politico.<\/p>\n

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US Vice President JD Vance <\/p>\n

(Photo: Nathan Howard\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was never going to hold. We were never going to be able to stay for four years as an exception to everything else America does in its foreign policy,\u201d the adviser said. \u201cWhen the clash came, Israel was naive to think that we would be able to be exempt from those expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Politico highlighted Vance\u2019s unusually sharp attack on Israel\u2019s leadership, in which he warned that Jerusalem should think carefully before turning on Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment,\u201d Vance said. \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance also pointed to Washington\u2019s significant contribution to Israel\u2019s defense and suggested, indirectly, that the relationship could change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody 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 he said.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s office declined to comment to Politico, but a person close to his team said the vice president sees support for Israel weakening among voters, including younger Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vice president sees that the ground is shifting against Israel among voters, including with younger Republicans. He\u2019s responding accordingly, with nuance instead of stridency,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump <\/p>\n

(Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP)<\/p>\n

According to the report, Vance has argued for years, even before becoming vice president, that Israel\u2019s interests and America\u2019s do not always overlap, and that the United States should not be dragged into a war with Iran on Israel\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael has the right to defend itself, but America\u2019s interest is sometimes going to be distinct,\u201d Vance said in a podcast in 2024, when he was Trump\u2019s running mate. \u201cAnd our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent months, Trump\u2019s tone toward Israel has also become noticeably harsher and more critical. Earlier this month, he called Netanyahu \u201cf—ing crazy,\u201d Politico reported, amid frustration over Israeli actions in Lebanon that he believed endangered talks with Iran. Afterward, Netanyahu froze planned strikes in Beirut, the type of restraint Vance had been urging throughout.<\/p>\n

Natan Sachs, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, said Netanyahu\u2019s government recognizes the rift but does not fully grasp its depth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the leadership level there is deep concern\u2026but they are underestimating the severity of the moment,\u201d Sachs said.<\/p>\n

The new framework agreement signed Friday by Israel and Lebanon, which includes a commitment to end the conflict between them, may not be enough to change the trajectory with Washington. The agreement binds both governments, but not Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends a lot on what happens in Lebanon,\u201d Sachs said. \u201cIt\u2019s laid bare fundamentally different interests. For the United States a deal with Iran \u2014 whatever it is \u2014 Trump has decided the deal is in the American interest, and Lebanon is just not that close to that importance\u2026For Israel\u2026Lebanon cannot be relegated to an afterthought.\u201d<\/p>\n

Politico reported that Netanyahu\u2019s office is trying to focus its dissatisfaction on Vance alone.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <\/p>\n

(Photo: REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun\/Pool)<\/p>\n

\u201cNever trusted him,\u201d a person familiar with contacts between the two governments said of Vance. \u201cHe\u2019s the one pushing for an agreement, he was the one pushing for separating from Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same person said Netanyahu and his office do not view the current tension with Trump as the final word.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t take everything that is happening now with Trump as the end-all, because in the same way it can turn around, everybody\u2019s fully aware of that,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

Politico also linked Vance\u2019s conduct to the upcoming U.S. midterm elections and his own political future. Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist who served in the State Department during Trump\u2019s first term, said Vance appeared to be leaving signals about the direction he wants to take.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery interesting to see the vice president put out some, if you will, bread crumbs for his own thoughts and pathway for the future about how he\u2019s choosing to not just navigate these issues, but also articulate them to international, and then even more importantly, domestic and base audiences,\u201d Bartlett said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIsrael had expected when President Donald Trump came into office that his America First foreign policy would include…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-514277","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\/514277","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=514277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}