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Vance Warns Israeli Critics About Iran Deal

Vance Warns Israeli Critics About Iran Deal

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Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Israeli opponents of the Iran agreement on June 18, asserting that President Donald Trump is Israel’s sole ally. He highlighted this stance while citing the billions of dollars in U.S. defense assistance the country receives.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. We expect a complete Ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel.
2. What am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they [Iran] can't have them? It doesn't work that way.
James David Vance
Republican Party
1. Two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected Israel have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.
2. Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, and he happens to be the head of state of the world's superpower.
3. I find this whole freakout in Israel a little bit odd because I think that it comes from a place of mistrust, and I think that America has earned the trust of that region of the world.
4. What is your exact proposal? You're a country of 9 million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.
5. Have a little bit of faith in the president of the United States. The idea that he is going to strike a deal that's been bad for the American people, it's preposterous.
6. The 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.
7. 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.
8. My message to them would be twofold. No. 1: Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.
Lindsay Graham
Republican Party
1. Whether or not the United States can reach an acceptable, verifiable deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program and other issues is yet to be determined, but I see little downside to trying.
Ted Cruz
Republican Party
1. History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea. I think the president is receiving some very poor advice on this deal.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Government
1. This requires maintaining the security strip in southern Lebanon; it requires that we not leave there as long as Israel's security needs require it.
Itamar Ben Gvir
Otzma Yehudit
1. This 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.
Ryan Costello
National Iranian American Council
1. There is going to be a lot of opposition to this deal, even if they fail at destroying the deal at the outset.
2. There's a crowd that's trying to see how open they can be in opposition to this, not just the memorandum of understanding, but everything that's envisioned from it, which is a pretty significant resolution of tensions with Iran.
3. President Trump last week was sounding more like John Bolton.
4. We've seen the cost of war. We've seen that war is not an easy solution. We've seen that it has major economic impacts on Americans, and that Americans are opposed to it.
Matthew Duss
Center for International Policy
1. They have an enormous amount of funding for their think tanks and their advocacy organisations. Despite the fact that they have a very small and, I would say, diminishing support among the broader public, their ability to advance their ideas in the Washington policy conversation is still formidable.
2. The pro-Israel hawks, obviously, they're very well-established in Washington.
3. It's a ridiculous view of the world, but that's their ideology.
4. They wanted the war to continue. They have a theory of military power that basically, if military force isn't working, all you need to do is use military force.
5. The initial Memorandum of Understanding that has been reached with Iran raises significant questions.
6. If he says the Iran war is going great one day and then reverses himself completely and says we're signing a deal to end the war the next day, there's a big part of his base that will just go along with it, and they will get angry at anyone who publicly disagrees.
7. Donald Trump can sell pretty much anything to his hardcore base.

Vance Warns Israeli Critics About Iran Deal

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