Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 29.03.2026
Trump, who is looking to come down from the tree that he clime following Netanyahu’s promise that under a joint attack the regime in Iran would fall with the help of the Iranian masses who would welcome the bombing, decided to entrust his deputy, who is known as a fierce opponent of the United States’ war with Iran, with the management of the talks with Iran. To preserve his political future and presidential dream, Vance will likely be willing to make far-reaching concessions to get Trump out of the trap while spreading fabrications about a glorious U.S. victory.
The White House signal call, which took place a year ago and was published in full in The Atlantic, made it clear that Vance opposes attacking the Houthis, fearing that they will get what they want and drag the United States into a war in the Middle East. Vance also expressed concern about the price of oil, the rise of which could paralyze presidents (as well as the ambitions of vice presidents). In a conversation that included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and the president’s right-hand man, Steven Miller, Vance stood out as an opponent of any non-defensive military action.
One reason Vance oppressed against that attack — it simply irritated him to lift a finger on behalf of the traditional U.S. allies, whom he constantly criticizes. “I’m not sure the president understands how much this contradicts his messages,” he wrote at the start of the conversation on March 11.
At a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, US President Donald Trump informed his ministers and aides that Vance would lead the talks. Axios revealed that Vance has already begun preparing for the job, and spoke twice last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In one of the tense conversations, according to the report, Vance confronted Netanyahu about overly optimistic predictions he had made to Trump in order to lure him into war.
“Before the war, Bibi literally sold the war to President Trump as something that would be easy. He presented the idea of regime change as something much simpler than it is. The vice president understood very well the meaning of his statements,” a person close to Vance told Axios. Vance, who volunteered for the Marines and served as a military correspondent in Iraq, saw firsthand how “easy” it was to change a regime in the Middle East. That’s why he didn’t believe Netanyahu when he painted Trump a rosy picture of Iran the day after the war.
CNN reported at the beginning of the war that Vance had been working behind the scenes late last month in an attempt to prevent cooperation with Israel in the campaign in Iran. When he realized that Netanyahu had succeeded in convincing Trump, and ignited his imagination with history books full of his exploits, Vance tried to serve as an alternative voice. According to the report, Vance attended the meetings and was the most prominent spokesman for a small operation similar to Venezuela. Since then, Vance and some of the president’s aides have been looking for any way to end the war. For fear of a spiral and escalation that would sabotage any future campaign by Vance.
Trump chose Vance as his running mate largely after he proved his firm worth in front of journalists. The Oval Office confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year provided an illustration of his stance toward allies. “Did you say thank you once?” scolded Vance Zelensky at the time
Like Trump, Vance is loyal only to his narrow political interests. And when Trump is also looking for a ladder to get down from the tree, it seems that the conditions in the White House are ripe for far-reaching concessions. Vance is certainly much more true than the professional echelon in Marco Rubio’s Foreign Ministry, and even the Witkop duo and Kushner, whose private businesses depend on Arab capital.
The U.S. seems to be striving for talks as quickly as possible, and Vance doesn’t really care where that leaves Israel. Especially when most Americans want to end this war, which they oppose. Yesterday, millions of demonstrators in the United States came out against the war and against Trump. It is the third time that the coalition behind the “No Kings” movement has organized events to protest President Trump and his policies. In the United States, more than 3,000 demonstrations were planned, it was quite clear to the American president that if he did not end the war soon, he would be in trouble after the midterm elections.
In Israel, too, hundreds demonstrated against Israel’s war against Iran. According to Haaretz, anti-war demonstrations took place on Saturday in about 20 locations across the country. In the main protest in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square, police and Border Police forces forcibly dispersed hundreds of demonstrators, claiming that they were violating the Home Front Command’s instructions. Police threw one of the demonstrators to the ground and confiscated signs from them. Thirteen demonstrators were arrested, after the deputy commander of the Lev Tel Aviv station, Sgt. Avi Ofer, called on his police officers to “start making arrests.” Several right-wing activists also arrived at the scene and clashed with the demonstrators.
Nine demonstrators were arrested in a protest at the Horev Center in Haifa, in which hundreds of people participated. This was after police tried to forcibly evict them and confiscated signs from them. Earlier, passersby threw eggs at the demonstrators at the site. The protesters chanted slogans against the government, including: “They are coming back in coffins, he is building palaces for him,” “Netanyahu is a terrorist in Israel,” “You are the head, you are guilty,” and “There is no amnesty for the enemy of the state.” The signs at the demonstration read, among other things, “Halas, end the eternal war,” “We have no children for messianic wars,” “Military successes do not cover up political impotence” and “Hope will win.” In Tel Aviv, some of the demonstrators sat on the floor while the police pushed them hard and shouted, “The police are criminals.”
Trump is aware of the Zionist terror in the West bank. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the administration is concerned about settler violence, adding that he thinks the Israeli government is also “concerned about it,” and that he thinks “the Israeli government is doing something about it.”
However, this is nonsense, because what is happening in the West Bank is much larger and more organized than what the official discourse in Israel is trying to present. This is not a “small violent handful,” not a phenomenon of fringes or weeds, or any of the other metaphors designed to obscure the dimensions of the phenomenon in order to enable the annexation of the West Bank while expelling the Palestinians. These terrorists are backed by the Zionist government and the army.
It should be added that the Houthis in Yemen decided to join the campaign alongside Iran, and they launched a missile at Beersheba, which was intercepted.
The Houthis’ military spokesman, Yahya Saria, confirmed that “we carried out our first military operation using a barrage of ballistic missiles against sensitive military targets of the Israeli enemy in occupied southern Palestine.”
Mohammed al-Bukhayti, a member of the Houthis’ political bureau, told the Yemeni media on March 13 that there is full coordination between the countries of the “axis of resistance,” including Yemen. According to him, the decision to join the fighting alongside Iran has already been made, and Yemen’s participation is only a matter of time.
Iran now believes that there is a chance that the United States is preparing for a broader campaign, which may also include a ground operation on its territory, and that the Houthis’ role is to block the aircraft carrier Bush in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The Houthis’ involvement is not coincidental, but rather the result of a combination of strategic coordination with Iran and operational constraints and internal considerations – political and economic.
Direct involvement in the fighting with the United States and Israel could expose the Houthis to heavy losses and damage their political standing in Yemen. In addition, there are gaps within the organization’s leadership between supporters of the escalation and its opponents.
The Houthis face significant limitations: a difficult economic situation, high risks of any missile launch or naval activity, and the fear of being exposed to counterattacks by the United States and Israel. All of these have so far limited the scope of their involvement. However, the Iranian pressure was decisive, and following its intensification, the Houthis joined the campaign.
As long as the Zionist Monster exists, Israel, the settler colonialists in Palestine and that is the front line of Western imperialism will continue with genocides, state terror, and mass destruction combined with annexation of Arabs’ territories with its drive to greater Israel.
The Promised Land, the Zionists believe, is a region promised in the Torah by God to Abraham that his descendants would inherit it for all generations. In the Bible itself, there are references that there is a difference between the first conquest of parts of the land that corresponded to the size of the population of the 12 tribes, and the expanded conquest (for Jehovah your God will enlarge your borders as he speaks to you).
In the covenant between the pieces, the borders of the Promised Land are described:
“On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates. The Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”[1]
Expel the Western imperialism from the Middle East!
Revolutionary victory for Iran!
Revolutionary defeat for US and Israel!
For Anti-Imperialist united front!
Destroy the Zionist monster and replace it with A Palestinian red and free state from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[1] (Brit Bein HaBetarim), recorded in Genesis 15