JD Vance Makes Stunning Veiled Threat To Israel Amid Trump Criticism: ‘Wake Up And Smell The Reality!’

Vice President JD Vance issued a stunning veiled warning to Israel amid dissent over President Donald Trump’s 14-point Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

Hours after the text of the deal was released, Trump signed the Iran memorandum of understanding at the Palace of Versailles during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron.

The 14-point plan was met with derision from across the political and ideological spectrum, and Israeli officials have said they will not be bound by it.

When Vance was asked about the crack at Thursday’s White House press briefing, he gave a stark response, cautioning Israeli critics that Trump and the United States are their only friends and demanding they “wake up and smell the reality of the situation”:

GATEWAY PUNDIT’S JORDAN CONRADSON: Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit. I want to talk back to the Lebanon component.

There’s a report in Axios that Netanyahu is fuming over this. Israel doesn’t feel bound to MOU as it relates to Lebanon.

As you mentioned, your frustration with Israel striking in Beiruit hitting apartment buildings.

If that continues, could it torpedo the deal? And what would the US’s response be to a broader war in Lebanon involving Israel?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Yeah, well, I don’t want to get into hypotheticals that could torpedo the deal because I think the president’s expectation is that all of our friends, the Israelis, the Arabs in the region, we’re going to work together and actually see this deal to completion.

Now, I saw the Axios report that Netanyahu is fuming. That’s not reflective of the conversations that I’ve had with him, but maybe he’s saying something to somebody else that he’s not saying to me.

What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you’ve seen people within Bibi’s cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the President of the United States.

And I guess my message to them would be twofold.

Number one, 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 superpower.

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.

And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, Bibi, to his credit, has not gone down this path. But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the President of the United States, the other thing that I would say is that over the last three months… Two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

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. Thank you all.

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