US Vice President JD Vance said Israel was \u201closing the public opinion battle\u201d in the United States, echoing comments he said President Donald Trump had also made publicly.<\/p>\n
Vance warned that while foreign governments often seek to shape US policy, the concern arises when American leaders allow outside influence to \u201caffect their judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that a foreign influence campaign had been funded to derail negotiations he was pursuing with Iran.<\/p>\n
“There’s a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to tank the very deal that I was pursuing,” Vance said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, citing a report published by Time Magazine on Monday. <\/p>\n
“Many of the people who were receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest ways. You know, my response to that is: ‘Well, go to hell’. \u2018I’m going to do what I have to do for the American people,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I represent Americans first, and that’s the way that I’ve tried to do this job.”<\/p>\n
Vance said, citing the Time Magazine article, that a former Trump campaign person, who he said had been paid by “certain elements within the Israeli government,” had mounted attacks against him for pursuing negotiations with Iran. <\/p>\n
“They’re attacking me obsessively, saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran,” he said. <\/p>\n
He added that he knows “beyond a shadow of a doubt” that people within the Israeli government have tried to shift US policy because they want to continue the military campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Vice President JD Vance said Israel was \u201closing the public opinion battle\u201d in the United States, echoing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-543339","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\/543339","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=543339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}