Vice President JD Vance made it clear in his latest interview that America’s interest comes first before Israel’s.
In a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, JD Vance discussed the United States current relationship with Israel.
Vance told Watters that the United States and Israel are allies who do have shared interests.
However, Vance then noted that in some situations the U.S. and Israel do have some situations where their interest “diverge”.
Fox News provided full quotes from Vance:
Vice President JD Vance said Monday that while the United States and Israel share interests, Washington’s approach to Tehran will be guided by what President Donald Trump thinks is best for the U.S.
Vance’s remarks come amid reported tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over missile strikes on Iran and with the Israeli leader favoring a more hard-line approach.
“The Israelis and the United States, we have a lot of shared interests,” Vance told Jesse Watters.
“But we also have some situations where our interests diverge, and I think where the president has been very clear here is that while Israel obviously has some objectives that it has, the United States’ main objective in Iran is to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon,” he added.
“Over the last year and a half, we’ve created the space necessary where the president believes — and I think he’s right — that we can get a long-term settlement to Iran’s nuclear issue,” Vance said.
“Now, Israel may like that, they may not like that, but fundamentally, we think this is in the best interest of the United States of America,” he said, adding that Washington will continue pursuing that goal because “that’s what the president of the United States was elected to do.”
Here’s the moment Vance made the remarks:
Vance comments comes just a day after Iran and Israel exchanged strikes on Sunday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire in April.
CNN reported the latest details on the conflict in Iran:
Israel was preparing for a significant attack in Tehran on Monday when US President Donald Trump convinced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off, according to an Israeli source and a US official familiar with the matter.
Here’s what to know about what is happening in the region:
Shortly after the call between Trump and Netanyahu, the Israeli leader announced his country had accepted the US administration’s request to halt strikes on Iran, but said attacks in Lebanon will continue.
It was Trump’s second phone call to Netanyahu in a matter of hours. Trump told Axios that he warned the Israeli prime minister that he would isolate himself if he continued to strike Iran.
Meantime, there has been strikes in southern Lebanon. Five people were killed and eight wounded by an Israeli strike in Tyre, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
It occurred after Tehran warned it would resume its suspended operations against Israel if its strikes continued in southern Lebanon.
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