Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. So JD Vance said something [00:02] yesterday at an event called the All-In [00:04] Podcast Summit that I want to push back [00:08] on because it's the kind of thing that [00:10] sounds authoritative if you don't [00:12] actually know the history. And if you do [00:13] know the history, it just falls apart. [00:16] He was talking about the USIsrael [00:18] relationship. So take a look at this. [00:21] >> Uh JD, before we wrap here, I want to [00:23] ask you another hard question. Um this [00:25] one about our relationship with the [00:26] state of Israel and the president's [00:28] relationship with BB Netanyahu. Um many [00:31] people in the Republican party MAGA are [00:34] now moving to a new party, America [00:36] first, America only. There's a rise in [00:39] anti-semitism and there's a persistent [00:42] belief amongst a lot of the people on [00:44] the right that maybe our foreign policy [00:46] is too influenced by the state of Israel [00:49] or BB Netanyahu. Can you take us into [00:52] the relationship right now where it [00:54] stands uh and and and the you know the [00:57] administration's position on [01:00] collaborating with Israel on a lot of [01:02] these military activities? [01:05] >> Yeah. You know what the president has [01:06] said, Jason, is obviously Israel has [01:10] been an important partner when it comes [01:11] to military technology, when it comes to [01:13] intelligence sharing, but also sometimes [01:15] the United States doesn't always agree [01:16] with Israel. But I think that more than [01:18] frankly any president the last 40 years, [01:21] he has shown a willingness uh to [01:23] actually part ways with BB Netanyahu [01:25] when he feels like the interests of the [01:27] American people are different from the [01:29] interests of of the government of [01:30] Israel. And I find it a little ironic, [01:33] Jason, that you have Democrats [01:35] criticizing Donald Trump for his [01:36] relationship with BB when Donald Trump [01:39] is the one president of the last 40 [01:40] years who's been willing to say, you [01:42] know what, yeah, BB is a good partner, [01:43] but also BB and I have a different [01:45] opinion on this or BB's wrong about [01:47] this, or maybe BB's right about this [01:49] from the perspective of Israel, but the [01:51] American people need us to go in a [01:53] different direction. So I I I just think [01:55] that rooting this relationship like all [01:57] relationships in America's interest is [02:00] the way to actually have a rational [02:02] conversation here because when you're [02:05] talking about whether a given policy is [02:08] in America's interest and you keep [02:10] yourself laser focused on that. I think [02:12] that's how you make sure that the [02:13] American people know that you're [02:14] fighting for them. But I also think that [02:16] it allows us to actually rationally [02:18] focus and force ourselves to have a [02:21] conversation about when something that [02:23] maybe sounded good or maybe has become a [02:26] cliche or a slogan for the past 20 or 30 [02:28] years. Well, maybe we have to do [02:30] something different now. And I I think [02:31] that that's how we have to approach not [02:33] just this relationship but all [02:35] relationships. By by the way, you you [02:37] see a similar push back when the [02:39] president makes the argument that he's [02:40] made about NATO, which is yes, obviously [02:43] a lot of important relationships, a lot [02:45] of important partnerships in NATO, but [02:47] that doesn't mean that we're going to [02:49] completely make our European foreign [02:51] policy subservient to NATO in the same [02:54] way that we cannot let our Middle [02:55] Eastern foreign policy be subservient to [02:57] the state of Israel. We're going to work [02:59] with people when we work with them. [03:01] We're going to disagree when we [03:02] disagree. And we're going to pursue [03:03] America's interest. That's the only way [03:05] to have a rational foreign policy. [03:06] >> I know. [03:08] >> So, I want to separate two things here [03:11] because Vance has a habit of doing this [03:13] and I noticed it back in June, too. You [03:16] may remember in June he said this. [03:22] I saw the Axios report. Uh, you know [03:24] that that that Netanyahu is fuming. [03:27] That's not reflective of the [03:28] conversations that I've had with him, [03:30] but maybe he's saying something to [03:31] somebody else that he's not saying to [03:32] me. What I will say, and this does [03:34] bother me, is that you have seen people [03:36] within BB's cabinet who have come out [03:39] and attacked the deal and in some ways [03:41] very personally attacked the president [03:43] of the United States. And I guess my [03:45] message to them would be twofold. Number [03:48] one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of [03:52] state in the entire world who is [03:54] sympathetic to the nation of Israel at [03:57] this moment in time. And he happens to [03:59] be the head of state of the world's [04:01] superpower. If I was in the cabinet of [04:03] the Israeli government, I might not be [04:05] attacking the only powerful ally that I [04:09] have anywhere left in the entire world. [04:11] And the second message I would give to [04:13] some of those cabinet members, BB to his [04:15] credit has not gone down this path, but [04:17] to some of these cabinet members in [04:19] Israel who are attacking the president, [04:20] United States, the other thing that I [04:22] would say is that over the last three [04:23] months, [clears throat] [04:25] twothirds of the defensive weapons that [04:28] have protected your homeland have been [04:30] built by American hands and paid for by [04:33] American tax dollars. The problem for [04:36] Israel is not Donald J. Trump. And [04:39] anybody in Israel who thinks their [04:40] biggest problem is the president of the [04:42] United States needs to wake up and smell [04:45] the reality of the situation that [04:47] country is in. [04:50] >> Okay, this is why let me explain why I [04:53] say that he's doing the same thing here. [04:56] There is [04:58] no one in Israel, there has never been [05:02] anyone in Israel who thinks that their [05:04] biggest problem is President Trump. This [05:06] was that was his press conference from [05:08] when he was pushing theou theou uh the [05:11] disastrousou that the Israelis were not [05:13] happy with. And he said numerous things [05:15] that were demonstrably false in that [05:17] clip. And of course he didn't name [05:19] anyone. There were no members of BB's [05:21] cabinet who personally attacked [05:22] President Trump. There was not a single [05:24] one. I trust me I follow this stuff [05:26] closely. I went searching what are the [05:28] statements people made. People were [05:29] upset about theou. No one attacked [05:32] President Trump. To say that the only [05:35] head of state in the world who is [05:37] sympathetic to Israel is President Trump [05:39] is just also demonstrably false. I don't [05:41] want to litigate that right now either. [05:44] And then to say, and this is the real [05:47] this is this is what really made me [05:49] remember this clip when I watched the [05:52] clip from the All-In podcast from last [05:54] night [05:56] when he says there that anyone in Israel [05:59] who thinks [06:01] that their biggest problem is the [06:02] president of the United States needs to [06:04] wake up. Now [06:06] that's that's exact that is a straw man. [06:10] No one in Israel says that. no serious [06:13] politician, no serious commentator, [06:14] there's nobody. So, it's a you know what [06:17] a straw man argument is, right? Where [06:18] you assert something [06:20] that your opponent is saying, but [06:22] they're not actually saying it, but it's [06:24] an easy assertion to discredit and then [06:27] you discredit it and thereby apparently [06:30] discredit your opponent. Okay? It's it's [06:33] a game. It's a straw man argument. There [06:36] is no one in Israel who says that. [06:39] Okay? So that comment wasn't about [06:41] anything real. And now in this statement [06:44] here, [06:46] this is a little bit different, but he's [06:48] making a historical claim. It's also a [06:50] straw man argument. What's he saying? [06:52] That President Trump, more than any [06:54] president in the last 40 years, that's [06:56] what he said in that in that uh in that [07:00] first clip I showed you. He said that [07:02] more than any president in the last 40 [07:04] years, President Trump has been willing [07:06] to part ways with an Israeli government [07:08] when he thinks that American interests [07:10] and Israeli interests diverge. I mean, [07:12] he said with BB BB hasn't been on the, [07:14] you know, hasn't been prime minister for [07:15] 40 years, but he met with the Israeli [07:18] government. [07:21] Now, that's a testable claim and it's [07:24] simply not true. Let me show you why. [07:26] First, let's be fair to him because [07:28] there is something real here. Trump did [07:31] push back on on Prime Minister [07:33] Netanyahu. That's true. Back in [07:34] September of 2025. Israel struck a [07:37] building in Doha where Kamas's top [07:40] leadership was meeting and they were [07:41] trying to take out the men who were [07:43] actually running the negotiations from [07:45] the kamas side. Israel missed the main [07:48] targets. A handful of lower level kamas [07:50] operatives were killed. You probably [07:51] remember this. There was also a Qatari [07:53] security officer who was killed. And the [07:55] bigger problem from Washington's side [07:57] was that they barely got a heads up [07:58] before it happened. Trump was blindsided [08:01] and it was on the territory of a country [08:03] that hosts a major US military base and [08:05] that his own administration had been [08:07] courting and sees as an ally or saw as [08:09] an ally. I don't know where that [08:10] relationship is now. That's a [08:11] interesting topic for a different video. [08:14] But Trump got angry at the time, [08:16] publicly angry about that and he did [08:17] lean hard on on Prime Minister Netanyahu [08:20] to sign the Gaza ceasefire deal. He did. [08:23] And he also publicly said that he won't [08:26] let Israel annex the West Bank. Judea [08:29] and Samaria, right? He also he [08:32] criticized Israel at the end of the 12- [08:34] day war when you know when the ceasefire [08:36] was supposed to go into effect and then [08:38] and then Iran attacked and then Israel [08:39] was going to retaliate and he he called [08:41] out Israel. He used an expletive. So [08:44] yeah, these are actual things that [08:45] happened. No one's denying those. But [08:47] watch what kind of disagreements those [08:48] are. What kind of disagreements are [08:50] they? Every single one of the [08:52] disagreements I just mentioned were [08:54] disagreements about tactics and timing, [08:56] but it's within a relationship where the [08:59] overall policy goals are shared. Winning [09:01] the war, getting the hostages back, [09:04] keeping the Gulf normalization track [09:06] alive, how to handle Iran. But in I [09:09] mean, how to handle these situations? [09:11] Yeah, there's tactical differences and [09:12] he and Trump has called out BB on a [09:14] number of occasions. These are very loud [09:17] events. They're Trump. they happen on [09:20] truth social or in front of the cameras [09:21] and he doesn't hold his tongue. But at [09:24] the end of the day, Israel has not paid [09:25] a price for any of those. [09:28] That's very different uh from presidents [09:32] putting real leverage on the table, [09:34] money, weapons, diplomatic cover over [09:38] actual disagreements about Israel's [09:40] policy. So let's go through 40 years of [09:43] presidents. This is what JD Vance is [09:45] asserting, right? Let's start with [09:47] Reagan, which is actually a little it's [09:49] we're going to go back more than 40 [09:50] years, but it's at the edge of that [09:52] window that he's talking about. In 1981, [09:54] Israel sent fighter jets deep into Iraq [09:57] and destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear [09:59] reactor at a site called Osira before he [10:02] could ever use it to build a bomb. It's [10:04] remembered as one of the boldest [10:05] preemptive strikes in Israeli history. [10:08] But it was a unilateral strike inside [10:10] another country's borders, and it [10:12] blindsided Washington. Reagan's response [10:14] was to suspend delivery of F-16 fighter [10:17] jets that had already been promised to [10:19] Israel. He did the same thing again in [10:21] 1982 during the Lebanon war. Then on top [10:24] of that, he pushed an $8.5 billion Awax [10:28] sale to Saudi Arabia through Congress [10:31] over the loud objections of the Israeli [10:34] government and Apac fighting it with [10:37] everything they had. [10:39] Okay, that's not a tweet. It's not an [10:42] angry tweet. That's President Reagan [10:45] choosing Saudi Arabia over Israel's [10:48] explicit objection on a major arms deal. [10:50] Okay. Now, let's go to the next [10:51] president, George HW Bush. This one's [10:54] the clearest case there is. 1991, 1992, [10:58] that era. Bush and James Baker [11:01] conditioned $10 billion in loan [11:04] guarantees to Israel, money that Israel [11:06] needed for Soviet immigration [11:08] absorption. and they conditioned the [11:11] loan guarantees on a freeze on [11:14] settlement building in Judea and Samaria [11:16] in the West Bank, what's called the West [11:18] Bank. [11:19] They publicly fought with Prime Minister [11:22] Shamir about it. Baker's line was, "Call [11:24] us when you're serious about peace." [11:27] Okay? Again, that's not rhetoric. [11:30] That's $10 billion being withheld over a [11:33] policy disagreement and is widely [11:36] credited as a factor in Shamir losing [11:38] the 92 elections to Rabbine. [11:41] Now let's go to George W. Bush. [11:44] Okay. Now Bush 43 was viewed as a [11:49] pro-Israel president. Really the most I [11:52] mean I don't know if Clinton you [11:53] consider more pro-Israel than him maybe. [11:56] But Bush in 2008 said no to Israel's [12:00] request for bunker buster bombs and [12:02] overflight rights to strike Iran's [12:05] nuclear program in its infancy or [12:08] relative infancy. [12:10] Okay? And this was a direct refusal on [12:13] the single issue that Israel considered [12:15] existential at the time. He said no. JD [12:19] Vance says, you know, Trump's the only [12:21] president in the last 40 years who's [12:23] been willing to say no to the Israelis. [12:24] Let's go to Obama now. I mean, this [12:25] one's easy, right? You all remember this [12:27] one. The Iran deal. Hello. Pursued over [12:31] open, furious Israeli objection. [12:33] Netanyahu literally going around the [12:35] White House to address Congress about [12:37] it. And then in December 2016, at the [12:41] very end of Obama's term, literally [12:43] about a month before he left office, [12:45] Obama let UN Security Council Resolution [12:47] 2334 pass by abstaining, by having the [12:52] US abstain instead of vetoing it. That [12:55] resolution, I'll refresh your memory, [12:57] declared Israeli settlements a quote [13:00] flagrant violation of international law [13:02] with quote no legal validity. [13:06] And it passed 14 to zero in the security [13:08] council with the US the only country not [13:11] voting yes. They abstained. Every [13:14] president before him had used the veto [13:16] the US veto in the UN security council [13:20] to block exactly that kind of resolution [13:22] at the UN protecting Israel from that [13:24] kind of formal condemnation. That was [13:26] something that was practically [13:27] automatic. But Obama didn't do it. [13:31] Netanyahu at the time called it a [13:32] shameful ambush. [13:36] Oh, but Trump's the only one who has [13:37] said no to to BB, right? Um, Nathaniel [13:41] also recalled ambassadors from countries [13:43] that backed the resolution uh canceled [13:46] aid to to one of them. Trump, who hadn't [13:49] even been sworn in yet at the time of [13:51] that, tweeted that Israel was being [13:53] treated with total disdain and that [13:55] things would change once he was in [13:56] office. They did. So, if you're looking [13:59] for a president actually parting ways [14:01] with an Israeli government on substance, [14:05] that's that's it. That's the model. [14:08] What? And then Biden Biden 2024, he [14:11] actually paused a shipment. He held back [14:13] a shipment of 2,000lb bombs to Israel [14:17] over the planned Rafa operation that he [14:19] didn't want Israel to do. And he said [14:20] publicly that he'd keep withholding [14:22] offensive weapons if Israel went ahead [14:24] with it. That was an arms embargo [14:26] against Israel during an active war that [14:29] Israel was fighting for its survival. [14:32] Now, before I go on, I want to remind [14:35] you about a very exciting program that [14:37] we have coming up March 7th through [14:40] 14th, an 8-day trip to Israel. A unique [14:43] trip to Israel, hosted, co-hosted by [14:46] myself and Dr. David Worms. Dr. David [14:48] Worms, if you don't know, he knows all [14:50] this history better than anybody. He is [14:52] he was in a number of these White [14:54] Houses. Dr. David Worms has served in [14:56] multiple white houses as a senior [14:58] adviser on the Middle East. He also [15:00] served in the National Security Council [15:01] in the State Department. He's a senior [15:03] fellow at the Center for Security Policy [15:05] and at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign [15:07] Affairs. He is one of the world's [15:09] leading experts, if not the top in terms [15:12] of Middle East experts. And he will be [15:13] joining us for the entire eight days on [15:16] the bus at all the sites. We're going to [15:17] be having briefings at the Lebanese [15:19] border, at the Syrian border. We're [15:20] going to be meeting with top military [15:22] people. We're going to be meeting with [15:23] with elected officials, senior people in [15:26] the Israeli government. We're going to [15:27] be meeting with top journalists, [15:30] community leaders like the leaders of [15:31] the Drews community, the Christian [15:33] community, the communities in Judea and [15:34] Samaria. It's going to be an amazing and [15:36] unique trip. It and it is luxury [15:40] fivestar accommodations this trip. It is [15:42] a uh it is going to be a very special [15:45] trip and we're going to be limiting the [15:47] number. It's going to be under 20 people [15:50] and uh again 8 days March 7th to 14th. [15:52] If this is for you, go to the link in [15:55] the description of this video and check [15:56] it out. Sign up. Uh there are already [15:58] people signing up. Spots are being [16:00] taken, so you want to jump on that. Um, [16:06] look, let's put the list of everything I [16:09] just shared with you from Reagan through [16:11] Obama next to Trump being, let's say, [16:14] upset about the fact that Israel struck [16:17] the Qatari uh, you know, that strike in [16:21] Qatar that upset Trump. [16:24] It doesn't hold up. [16:26] I mean, the policies of the Trump [16:28] administration continue to be, you know, [16:31] pretty much on Israel's side. [16:35] And I want to be honest about the [16:36] strongest version of the other side's [16:38] argument. [16:40] You know, um [16:42] the, you know, there there's a guy named [16:45] Aaron Aaron David Miller. He spent close [16:47] to 25 years at the State Department [16:49] working on Middle East peace [16:51] negotiations under Republican and [16:52] Democratic administrations, both going [16:54] back to the Reagan years through the [16:56] Oslo process all the way to the Camp [16:58] David negotiations in 2000. He's about [17:01] as credible a voice as exists on this. [17:03] He's now a fellow at the Carnegie [17:04] Endowment. Back in 1996, Miller was in [17:07] the room when Bill Clinton walked out of [17:09] his very first meeting with Netanyahu [17:11] completely exasperated and said, "Who's [17:14] the effing superpower here?" implying [17:16] that he was being manipulated by [17:17] Netanyahu. Whatever. I mean, that's I [17:19] guess if you want evidence that some [17:21] president said that that Netanyahu was [17:23] manipulating him because Miller's told [17:25] that story many times over the years. [17:29] This past October, Miller wrote a piece [17:30] arguing that Trump in 2025 was the first [17:33] president [17:35] who actually got Netanyahu to bend on a [17:38] live hostage negotiation, not just vent [17:40] about it. Great. So you got Netanyahu to [17:43] bend on the hostage agree. You got him [17:44] to agree to the ceasefire deal. That's a [17:46] real point. Great. [17:48] But again, compare that to the list I [17:51] just shared with you. [17:53] Now, notice what this argument actually [17:55] is. It's a claim about Trump being [17:58] effective [18:01] at at pushing back against Netanyahu. [18:06] I mean, think about what they're what [18:08] this claim is. Trump's overall record is [18:11] the most pro-Israel of any modern [18:12] president that we know. And we know the [18:14] whole list. Moving the embassy to [18:15] Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan [18:16] Heights, pulling out of the Iran deal. [18:19] Um, joint strikes with Israel on Iran's [18:22] nuclear sites back in June, and even the [18:25] anger over the Qatar strike and being [18:28] opposed to Israel uh declaring [18:31] sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. Those [18:32] were about protecting the Gulf [18:35] normalization track with Israel, about [18:38] the Abraham Accords. and was also about [18:40] optics and coalition management. It was [18:42] very much tactical. [18:45] They were never Trump never broke with [18:47] Israel over what its own security policy [18:50] should be like those other presidents [18:51] did, like Obama did, [18:54] like Biden did. [18:57] So, here's the actual point. Notice that [18:59] Vance never actually names a single [19:01] example. [19:04] I mean, I have my doubts about what he [19:06] knows. [19:08] He just asserts that more than any [19:10] president in the last 40 years, Trump [19:12] has been willing to push back on BB. And [19:14] then he moves on banking on the fact [19:16] that no one's going to stop and ask him [19:18] to back up that claim. [19:20] And you know, when I think about what he [19:22] what he said in the in the other clip I [19:24] showed you, the one from the one from [19:25] October saying, you know, like if [19:28] Israeli anyone in Israel thinks that uh [19:31] that Trump is their biggest problem and [19:33] and cabinet members who are attacking [19:35] him, which were which were just [19:36] demonstrabably false, he made that up. [19:39] There these straw man arguments. I I'm [19:42] sorry. This this to me is a character [19:45] flaw. [19:48] I mean, the closest thing you have to [19:50] evidence of Trump [19:53] uniquely pushing back is like Trump [19:55] venting publicly about the Qatar strike [19:57] or leaning on Netanyahu for the [19:59] ceasefire. And Trump does things more [20:00] publicly than other presidents. It's [20:02] true. But even even those which were [20:06] which were well publicized moments don't [20:09] survive the the the comparison to the [20:12] last 40 years of actual presidential [20:14] decisions that I just shared with you. [20:17] Right. Bush senior's loan guarantees. [20:19] Obama's UN abstension next to Trump [20:22] posting an angry statement [20:25] or even getting Israel to agree to the [20:27] hostage deal, which arguably was in [20:29] Israel's best interest anyway. I mean, [20:31] we could we could fight about that. And [20:32] I, you know, I'm I I [20:35] don't want to litigate that right now. [20:40] But the claim that Vance is making is [20:42] just it's absurd on its face. And it it [20:45] can only hold up if people do not know [20:48] the history. [20:51] Look, the only way to give Vance the [20:53] benefit of the doubt, and it's not much [20:55] benefit, is to say that he just doesn't [20:58] know the basic history of the last 40 [21:00] years. [21:01] Okay, that's possible. But then there's [21:03] then you get to the second problem with [21:05] what he said, which is actually worse [21:07] than not knowing the history. Maybe it [21:09] goes together with it. Because think [21:11] about what Vance is conceding when he [21:13] makes this argument in the first place. [21:14] He's saying that Trump is the president [21:16] who's finally willing to part ways with [21:19] Israel when American and Israeli [21:20] interests diverge. Now, that only works [21:23] as a compliment if you first accept as a [21:26] premise that every president before him [21:28] didn't do that. [21:32] This isn't me reading between the lines [21:34] because JD Vance said exactly this. He [21:37] said the quiet part out loud already. [21:39] Back in late October at a Turning Point [21:42] USA event at Miss. A student asked him [21:46] about a donor about Miriam Adlesen [21:47] pouring millions of dollars into Trump's [21:49] campaign while the administration [21:51] pursues pro-Israel policies. And the [21:53] student was saying, you know, are we [21:54] being controlled by Israel? Right? That [21:56] was the That was uh that was what the [21:59] student was saying here. So, this is the [22:00] I'm going to pull this clip up now. This [22:02] is going to be the last clip we're going [22:03] to do. Let's make the screen big again [22:06] and uh go get the clip. Here it is. [22:11] Let's say things a few things about [22:12] this. First of all, when the president [22:14] United States says America first, that [22:16] means that he pursues the interests of [22:19] Americans first. That is our entire [22:22] foreign policy. And that doesn't mean [22:24] that you're not going to have alliances, [22:26] that you're not going to work with other [22:28] countries from time to time. And that is [22:29] what the president believes is that [22:31] Israel sometimes they have similar [22:33] interests to the United States and we're [22:34] going to work with them in that case. [22:36] Sometimes they don't have similar [22:38] interests to the United States. In this [22:39] example, the most recent Gaza peace plan [22:42] that all of us have been working on very [22:44] hard for the past few weeks. the [22:45] president of the United States could [22:47] only get that peace deal done by [22:50] actually being willing to apply leverage [22:52] to the state of Israel. So when people [22:55] say that Israel is somehow manipulating [22:59] or controlling the president of the [23:00] United States, they're not controlling [23:02] this president of the United States, [23:04] which is one of the reasons why would be [23:06] able to have some of the success that [23:07] we've had in the Middle East. [23:09] Oh, you see, you know, that that quote [23:13] started out better than it ended to be [23:15] perfectly honest, [23:18] right? Because he said when people say [23:20] that that somehow Israel Israel is [23:22] manipulating or controlling the [23:24] president of the United States, what it [23:26] what he should have then said is that's [23:28] just not true, [23:32] blanket. But instead, he said they're [23:34] not controlling this president and [23:36] that's why we've been able to have the [23:37] successes we've been able to have. In [23:38] other words, other presidents who [23:40] weren't able to have the successes in [23:42] the Middle East that they've had is [23:44] because they were controlled. They're [23:46] not controlling this president. [23:49] Right? [23:51] Look [23:54] th this is a pattern at this point with [23:57] JD Vance. I used to like this guy. But [24:02] you know, [24:06] Vance is accepting as his starting [24:09] premise the claim [24:12] that the that a growing segment [24:15] unfortunately of the America First crowd [24:17] has been pushing [24:20] that Israel has been running US Middle [24:22] East policy for years. It's the tail [24:25] wagging the dog. He's not pushing back [24:28] against that claim. That's the premise [24:29] of what he's saying. [24:32] He's agreeing with it and he's just [24:35] telling you that Trump is the exception. [24:37] They're not controlling this president. [24:38] He's the first president in 40 years to [24:41] to not be controlled by Israel, to not [24:43] be, you know, to to push back. [24:46] So, in trying to praise Trump, Vance is [24:48] actually validating a this very [24:52] dangerous and demonstrably false [24:54] narrative. [24:57] That's what I wanted to share with you [24:58] today. Um, [25:01] please like this vid. Please share this [25:03] video with someone who needs to see it. [25:05] Okay? Again, I used to be a supporter of [25:07] JD Vance, but there's the charitable [25:10] interpretation is that he does not know [25:12] history, and that ain't so charitable. [25:16] The alternative to that is way worse. [25:20] Anyway, thanks for watching. Thanks for [25:22] subscribing. Thanks for helping grow [25:23] this channel. And thanks for being part [25:26] of the best informed audience on the [25:29] Middle East there is. God bless.
