Vance on Israeli critics of Trump's Iran deal: might not want to attack ally

US Vice President JD Vance defended President Donald Trump, warning that criticizing him could jeopardize the US-Israel alliance, Israel's main source of defensive weapons.

U.S. Vice ​President JD ‌Vance excoriated Israeli ​critics of the U.S.-Iran interim peace agreement, warning Thursday, "I ‌might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the ‌entire world."

Speaking to reporters from the ‌White House, Vance said that President Donald Trump was "the only head of state in the entire world ⁠who ​is sympathetic ⁠to the nation of Israel at this moment in ⁠time," and chastised Israeli cabinet members that ​the majority of the Jewish State's defensive ⁠weapons were provided through U.S. funding. "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," Vance said.