By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
Vice President JD Vance told Israeli officials today that they might want to behave themselves even if they don’t like the U.S.-Iran peace deal signed yesterday in France.
The reason: American taxpayers are the reason — the only reason — Israel can defend itself. And American tax dollars foot the bill for the war against Iran.
He said much the same thing in an interview with The New York Times.
Coincidentally, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told The New Yorker’s David Remnick that Israel never stopped hectoring the United States about attacking Iran during her time in that Cabinet post. Clinton confirmed what former CIA agent John Kiriakou said in March.
While Clinton supported the attack on Iran’s putative nuclear weapons facilities last year, she did not support Trump’s kowtowing to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and starting a war on February 27.
At the White House, Vance unloaded on the top Israeli officials who attacked President Trump and the memorandum of understanding that has, at least temporarily, opened the Strait of Hormuz and ended the U.S. naval blockade there.
Those officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, say Iran is not bound by its terms.
“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,” Vance said:
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.
Vance reminded the ungrateful Israelis 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.”…
In March, former spook Kiriakou told podcaster Michael Franzese that every Israeli prime minister going back four decades had asked every U.S. president to bomb Iran. And every president, he said, said no.
Trump said yes.
“There was this constant drumbeat of pressure from the Israelis that we’ve got to bomb Iran, you gotta bomb Iran,” Kiriakou said:
Well, we didn’t bomb Iran until Donald Trump. And I have friends at the White House. I have friends in the administration. And they all tell me the same thing. They say that Trump agreed to bomb Iran because Benjamin Netanyahu threatened him and told him, “If you don’t bomb Iran, we’re going to use nuclear weapons against Iran.” Of course, the Israelis have never admitted that they have a nuclear program, but analysts believe that they have between 80 and 200 nuclear warheads.
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/vance-to-israel-remember-who-pays-your-bills/
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