It's about time

 

Vice President JD Vance holds a press briefing at the White House, on June 18. Eric Lee/Reuters

As much as I detest this administration, at least the truth about Israel is finally coming to light. Since Lyndon Johnson, the US has allowed Israel to dictate our foreign policy, to use the US as the useful idiot to promote a greater Israel. Lest you think yours truly is antisemitic, nothing could be further from the truth as Judaism is NOT zionism, a secular doctrine that conveniently wrapped Judaism around the political movement to give cover while controlling US interests in the middle east for years. This may be finally changing due to some harsh words coming from a most unlikely source, JD Vance, the used cars salesman who makes yours truly cringe without question.

Zionist leader Theodore Herzl c.1898

An approximation of the "Royal Grant" to Abraham consisting of all the land east of the Brook of Egypt and west of the Euphrates, north of Kadesh and south of Hamath, from a 1919 book by Clarence Larkin.

The United States joining with Israel to launch a war in the Middle East
was always a fraught situation for the longstanding US-Israeli alliance.

But things seemed to come to a head Thursday, when Vice President JD Vance had some blunt and harsh words for Israel — words that sounded a whole lot like a threat.

It was the culmination of days of warning signs from the Trump administration, which clearly fears Israel might scupper a US agreement with Iran that many view as way too favorable to the Iranians. Israel and Hezbollah agreed to renew a ceasefire on Friday, sources told CNN, after fighting between the Israeli military and the Iran-backed militant group again jeopardized US-Iran negotiations.

The break seemed inevitable, for several reasons:

• Israel’s goals for the Iran war were substantially different from the United States’ goals,
  and it was far more invested.
• Israel’s reputation in the US had already substantially declined in recent years.
• Even the still-strongly pro-Israel Republican Party has recently seen many
  prominent influencers strongly criticize Israel and has reckoned with growing 
  antisemitism in its base. 
• While President Donald Trump has aligned strongly with Israel, he’s also trafficked in numerous antisemitic tropes over the years.

And Trump tends to treat allies well only insofar as it benefits him.

Now, the administration is practically yelling:
You guys should take what we’ve given you and be happy, or else.

Vance’s remarks, in which he pointed to Israel’s worldwide unpopularity, were the most striking.

“Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said at a press briefing Thursday. “And he happens to be the head of state of the world’s superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”

It's abut time.