JD Vance’s Blunt Warning to Israel, and Why Waymo Is Struggling to Go National
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Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.
Yesterday, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a blunt message to those in Israel who have been criticizing the deal the U.S. struck with Iran.
If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.
Vance held a press conference at the White House as the administration's been pushing back against a growing wave of criticism over the peace agreement coming from both at home and abroad. Critics say the deal gives Iran economic relief now while punting negotiations on the nuclear program down the road. One fiery opinion piece by the head of a major Israeli paper called it a catastrophic capitulation. While the war started as a joint U.S.-Israeli operation, Israel was excluded from the peace negotiations. And analysts and officials there say the deal now leaves Israel worse off than before the war. The Iranian regime's not only still in place, it's more emboldened. And the agreement doesn't address Iran's ballistic missile arsenal, a key concern for Israel.
Beyond that, the agreement also tries to introduce a new restraint on the Israeli military by calling for the immediate and permanent termination of operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah. Vance acknowledged yesterday that the White House has grown frustrated with some of the Israeli operations there.
All of a sudden, there's a major explosion that goes off in a civilian population center in Beirut, and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That's not acceptable. That's the sort of thing that we've asked for closer coordination so that we ensure it doesn't happen.
Overnight, there was a new wave of deadly attacks in southern Lebanon that showed the fighting there has not ended. Lebanon's state news agency said Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people, and the Israeli military said four of its soldiers were killed in a rocket attack by Hezbollah. In terms of what comes next with the peace agreement, the U.S. and Iran were set to start a new round of negotiations today about many of the big outstanding issues between them. But ahead of those talks, Switzerland, which was set to host, said the negotiations had been postponed. As of this morning, it's not clear why. The Times has learned that the Trump administration is planning to sell or offload many of the warehouses it was going to turn into immigration detention centers.
In the past year, it had bought up a lot of properties.
A massive, long, vacant warehouse could soon become the largest migrant detention facility in Texas. Basically going on a bit of a spending spree.
We're learning a massive ICE detention center holding as many as 10,000 immigrants could come to Glendale.
The warehouses were supposed to be key to the administration's mass deportation campaign, but the facilities quickly turned out to be costly and controversial. Critics worry about the strain on local infrastructure and conditions inside. It was expensive to convert the warehouses to be able to safely hold thousands of people. And ICE was battered by lawsuits alleging the agency skirted environmental laws as it rushed to get the centers up and running. Now, according to documents obtained by The Times, ICE is set to offload most of the 11 warehouses it bought, selling them or turning them over to other federal agencies.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–4:34
2
What is J.D. Vance's warning to Israel regarding the Iran deal?
4:34–8:32
3
How do critics perceive the U.S.-Iran peace agreement?
8:32–10:27
4
What implications does the Iran deal have for Israel's security?
10:27–16:46
5
Why is ICE offloading immigration detention warehouses?
16:46–16:48
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