Vance says US foreign policy ‘cannot be subservient to the State of Israel’

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Washington “cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the State of Israel.”

Vance made the remarks Tuesday evening, while speaking at a conference organized by the All-In Podcast, after host Jason Calacanis asked about concerns that Israel has too much influence on America’s Middle East policy.

Making a comparison to NATO, Vance said, [we have] a lot of important relationships, a lot of important partnerships in NATO, but that doesn’t mean we are going to completely make our European foreign policy subservient to NATO, in the same way that we cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the State of Israel.”

The vice president praised Trump for being willing to “part ways with Bibi Netanyahu when he feels like the interests of the American people are different from the interests of the government if Israel.”