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Vance: Don't bite the only ally keeping you alive

Vance is mad Israeli cabinet members are criticizing Trump's deal. Says Trump is the only world leader sympathetic to Israel right now, and that Israel is funded and armed by America. The implicit threat: shut up and be grateful or lose your biggest patron. Two things happening here. First, he's right that Israel is completely dependent on US military support. Second, he's pretending Trump is somehow less hostile to Palestinian rights than other leaders, which is absurd. Trump's entire foreign policy in the Middle East is chaos. But the actual message is pure patron-client dynamics: obey or get cut off. Israeli cabinet members attacking a deal that Israel didn't even negotiate. That's the real story Vance glosses over.

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