Can't 'kill your way out of every problem': Vance decries Ben-Gvir, Smotrich's criticism of deal
US Vice President JD Vance defended Washington’s agreement with Iran, questioning Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s criticism of the deal in an interview with The New York Times on Thursday.
“What is your exact proposal?” he asked. “You’re a country of nine million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.”
Vance asserted that US President Donald Trump, who signed the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday in France, has noticed a “misalignment” between the goals of Israeli officials and the American public.
“He’s willing to say that we’re going to pursue America’s interests where there are divergences,” Vance told the NYT.
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