{"id":329051,"date":"2026-07-17T06:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329051"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:01:23","slug":"go-to-hell-jd-vance-accuses-israeli-officials-of-efforts-to-keep-war-on-iran-raging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329051","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Go to hell&#8217;: JD Vance accuses Israeli officials of efforts to keep war on Iran raging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Cradle \u2013 July 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>US Vice President JD Vance on 15 July accused elements within Israel of trying to derail negotiations with Iran and manipulate US public opinion to keep the war going \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some people within their system, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely,\u201d Vance said while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vtxyvD58eDg\">speaking<\/a> on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot toward any objective, but just indefinitely,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said individuals linked to figures in the Israeli government orchestrated a campaign against him personally.<\/p>\n<p>He cited a <em>Time<\/em> magazine<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/13\/brad-parscale-israel-influence-operation\/\"> investigation<\/a> alleging that the Israeli government paid former US President Donald Trump campaign manager and \u201cdigital guru\u201d Brad Parscale to run a high-dollar influence operation aimed at US conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the campaign, which included leaks to journalists and social media attacks, was allegedly to sabotage Vance&#8217;s effort to reach a deal with Iran to end the war based on Trump&#8217;s guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see there&#8217;s a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to take the very deal I was pursuing, and many of the people receiving that money were attacking me in dishonest ways. My response is \u2018go to hell,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vance insisted during the interview that the US \u201cwill not send 150,000 ground troops to achieve regime change\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">VIDEO | US Vice President JD Vance speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014<br \/>\n&#8220;If the Iranian people want to rise up and change their government, that&#8217;s up to them.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not going to send 150,000 ground troops in order to accomplish a change in a regime unless the people on the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bSQGqSE5NA\">pic.twitter.com\/bSQGqSE5NA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheCradleMedia\/status\/2077678773999186334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, the <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>(WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-leans-toward-expanding-u-s-military-operations-in-iran-6c230462\">reported<\/a> that \u201cPresident Trump is leaning toward expanding US military operations in Iran,\u201d including escalating airstrikes, sending ground forces to seize Iranian islands near the Strait of Hormuz, and bombing Pickaxe Mountain \u2013 a fortified site allegedly involved in Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president emphasized that the asymmetric threat posed by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz means the conflict can only be resolved through diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Iran closed the strait \u2013 through which at least 20 percent of global oil exports previously passed \u2013 to the US, Israel, and their allies after Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the unprovoked war on the Islamic Republic in late February.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said, \u201cI am very frustrated with Americans who say that you can&#8217;t negotiate with the Iranians,\u201d adding that \u201cyou can bomb the Iranians and destroy some of their capabilities, but it&#8217;s easy to fire on ships in the strait, and we must be prepared for dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JD Vance exposes Israel:<\/p>\n<p>I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there have been people within the Israeli government who are trying to actually shift us away from that policy because they want to continue the military campaign.<\/p>\n<p>There are some people within their system, we know\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KG163nrgfP\">pic.twitter.com\/KG163nrgfP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clash Report (@clashreport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/clashreport\/status\/2077475056322850822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The vice president also discussed accusations of antisemitism leveled against him by pro-Israel conservatives in the US. Vance said he had been unfairly accused of antisemitism for calling for a more candid relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv when their interests do not fully align.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have come after me saying I&#8217;m influenced by Qatar. That I&#8217;m influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson. There&#8217;s just so much bullshit out there,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>During the wide-ranging interview, Vance also commented on the Trump administration&#8217;s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, saying the financier convicted of sex crimes with minors has connections to both US and Israeli intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cEpstein was connected to circles within what could be described as the Israeli deep state, aligned with the center-left,\u201d while \u201che was not closely connected to the center-right in Israeli politics,\u201d noting that he had always found this \u201cstriking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t like he was super connected to the right of center of Israeli politics. America, he was connected across the board. Like he had Republican friends, he had Democratic friends. He had much deeper connections to the Israeli left of center than right of center,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Citing disastrous military interventionism and regime change in countries like Iraq and Libya, US Vice President JD Vance told Joe Rogan yesterday that the Trump administration would not be invading Iran as, &#8220;We&#8217;re not in that business anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further added that the US\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SM1G2iIv6G\">pic.twitter.com\/SM1G2iIv6G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The War Journal (@TheWarJournal) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheWarJournal\/status\/2077700042974962057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.thecradle.co\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Help support The Cradle.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles-id\/38829\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could represent the beginning of a historic shift in US foreign policy, or a major rift in the Trump administration itself, Vice President Vance has accused Israel of trying to undermine negotiations with Iran to prolong the war \u201cindefinitely\u201d    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":291477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329053,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329051\/revisions\/329053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}