After meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Israeli rime Minister Bibi Netanyahu dismissed the notion that Israel operates as a client state of the United States, calling such claims “hogwash.”
“I want to put it very clearly,” he said when asked about the matter. “One week they say that Israel controls the United States. A week later they say the United States controls Israel. This is hogwash.”
Netanyahu described the relationship between the two countries as a balanced partnership built on mutual respect. “We have a partnership, an alliance of partners,” said Netanyahu, “who share common values and common goals. We can have discussions, we can have disagreements here and there, but on the whole, I have to say that in the past year we’ve had agreement — agreement not only on goals but how to reach them.”
Reflecting on Israel’s military campaign, Netanyahu said the country had succeeded in “putting the knife at Hamas’s throat,” a mission directed by Israel itself. He added that the United States had played a key diplomatic role, saying, “the other effort was to isolate Hamas in the Arab and Muslim world, which I think the [US] president did brilliantly with his team.”
Vance echoed Netanyahu’s view of the bilateral relationship, emphasizing that the U.S. saw Israel as a peer rather than a subordinate. “We don’t want a vassal state, and that’s not what Israel is,” said Vance. “We don’t want a client state, and that’s not what Israel is. We want a partnership. We want an ally here.”
Vance went on to describe a vision of the Middle East where America’s regional allies take a greater leadership role. “The president believes that Israel, with our Gulf Arab allies, can play a very positive leadership role in this region — to where frankly the United States can care less about the Middle East because our allies in the region are stepping up, and taking control and taking ownership of their area of the world.”
He clarified that America’s interests in the region remain, but that the goal was to empower local partners to lead. “That doesn’t mean we don’t have interests here,” Vance continued. “That doesn’t mean we don’t care about what happens here. But we actually see this as an opportunity to build on the Abraham Accords, I think this Gaza deal is a critical piece of unlocking the Abraham Accords, but what it could allow is an alliance structure in the Middle East that perseveres, that endures, that allows the good people in this region of the world to step up and take ownership of their own backyard. That’s in the United States’ best interests. I happen to think that’s in Israel’s best interests, too.”
Netanyahu concluded by underscoring Israel’s sovereignty and cooperation with its allies. “We make the decisions for the security of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “But we make common decisions for the region which I think can serve us both.”
{Matzav.com}
It’s fact! This Netanyahu (Arab?) is controlled by President Trump. Quite Obvious! The Jewish Netanyahu would never have allowed the October 7 attack to have happened. We’re not stuped.