Michael Goodwin: Vance’s baffling statements on Israel & Epstein should disqualify him from 2028 GOP ticket

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Vance’s turn against Israel reminds me of a conversation several months ago with a friend who is active in Jewish causes.
58% : When it comes to Israel, he’s closer to Dems than to the heart of the GOP.
58% : The outlet reported that those voters want a 2028 candidate who supports a strong US-Israel relationship by a margin of 57 percentage points.
44% : That’s because his acid comments about the Jewish state echoed some antisemitic themes, and happened to come on the same day that half of House Dems took the extraordinary step of voting to end all aid to Israel, military and humanitarian.
38% : His comments on Israel alone have me asking, “Who is this guy?”
36% : It is an occupying force of terrorists in Lebanon to further Iran’s goal of eliminating Israel, and that’s why Israeli forces are trying to root it out.
34% : Addressing those criticizing his approach, presumably in Israel, he said: “Go to hell.
29% : And that is why Israel objected to America’s willingness to include its Hezbollah conflict in the cease-fire.
28% : Yet at the same time, here was the Republican vice president of an administration that has twice joined Israel in a war against Iran bad mouthing our crucial ally in ways that rhyme with the conspiracy theories of the Dems’ socialist wing.
20% : Although I knew that Carlson had lobbied Trump to make Vance his running mate, my friend’s warning about a creeping anti-Israel bias by Vance didn’t sound right to me.
19% : Specifically, Vance accused people “within Israel’s system” of trying to manipulate American public opinion to prolong the war with Iran “indefinitely.”
15% : A long-time donor and supporter of Vance, he mentioned reports he was hearing that the veep was sounding like Tucker Carlson, a close Vance friend who broke with Trump and routinely denounces Israel.
8% : With Trump making near-daily headline-grabbing comments on the war, I missed that Vance last month used a ridiculous comparison to describe Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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