JD Vance is half right: America isn’t Israel’s puppet — it’s Europe’s guard dog

Published September 18, 2026 6:00am ET



Asked about the U.S. relationship with Israel during the All-In Podcast Summit, Vice President JD Vance made some remarks that are raising eyebrows.

He said, “I think that, more than frankly any president in the last 40 years, [Trump] has shown a willingness to actually part ways with Bibi Netanyahu when he feels like the interests of the American people are different from the interests of the government of Israel … By the way, you see a similar push back when the president makes the argument that he’s made about NATO, which is yes, obviously a lot of important relationships, a lot of important partnerships in NATO, but that doesn’t mean that we’re 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.”

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