Vance Says the US Put ‘Leverage’ on Israel To Reach Gaza Ceasefire Deal

By Dave DeCamp

Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the US applied “leverage” to Israel to get it to agree to a Gaza ceasefire deal, marking the first public suggestion from a US official that it was necessary to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement.

Vance made the comments at the University of Mississippi during a Turning Point USA event when asked by a student why the US provides Israel with billions of dollars in military aid to support “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

Vance replied by saying that an “America First” foreign policy doesn’t mean you’re “not going to have alliances, that you’re not going to work with other countries from time to time,” and that President Trump believes that “Israel sometimes they have similar interests to the United States, and we’re going to work with them in that case. Sometimes they don’t have similar interests to the United States.”

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