Donald Trump and his deputy JD Vance have been stamping their feet over Israel’s continued war in Lebanon, which could stymie the US president’s only hope of extracting himself from a war with Iran he started alongside Benjamin Netanyahu.
But Vance’s slap at far-right members of the Israeli cabinet - that “You’re a country of nine million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have” - does not mean that Israel is likely to remain the dominant partner.
