JD Vance declines to back Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Egypt Independent
US Vice-President JD Vance has declined to back Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election, unlike Donald Trump, who recently supported the Israeli prime minister. Days before the election in Israel, Vance says he does not want to get involved in Israeli politics, according to an interview with journalist Mark Halperin.
US Vice-President JD Vance declined on Monday to say whether he supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election, Egypt Independent reports. “I don’t get involved in Israeli elections,” Vance said in an interview with journalist Mark Halperin aboard Air Force Two.
The position comes after US President Donald Trump backed Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections. Trump predicted a landslide victory for the prime minister in the parliamentary elections, according to an article published by our newsroom on 19 October (Trump’s prediction on the Israeli parliamentary elections).
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