J.D. Vance Rips the Media Rooting for Failure in the Middle East

Vance: “On one hand, they murdered a lot of innocent people. You’ve got an Israeli army that was defending itself on the other, that has learned a lot over the past couple of years. And, of course, you have an innocent civilian population in Gaza that is caught in the middle. But we’re here at the Civilian-Military Cooperation Center, which we are announcing the opening of. You have Israelis and Americans working hand-in-hand to try to begin the plan to rebuild Gaza, to implement a long-term peace and actually ensure that you have security forces on the ground in Gaza not composed of Americans, who can keep the peace over the long-term. So, we’ve got a lot of work left to do. This is going to take a very, very long time. But I think Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Admiral cooper behind we have done an incredible job. I want to say just a couple of quick things and then I would turn it over to Steve Witkoff. Number one, the Israeli government has been remarkably helpful on this. I want to thank them, thank our Israeli partners and all the folks, particularly who are working hand-in-hand with their American friends here at the CMCC. And number two, I want to say that there is this weird attitude I have sensed in the American media and the Western media where there is almost this desire to root for failure, that every time something bad happens, that every time there is an act of violence, there is this inclination to say, ‘Oh, this is the end of the ceasefire, this is the end of the peace plan.’ It’s not the end. It is, in fact, exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other, who have been fighting against each other for a very long time. We are doing very well. We are in a very good place. We will have to keep working on it, but I think we have the team to do exactly that. So with all thanks to our partners both in Israel, but all across the Gulf Arab states, Indonesia, the Turks, we are doing an amazing thing here, and I am particularly proud of the American troops working at the command center, who are coordinating this effort and making it possible. So, with that, I want to thank Ambassador Steve Witkoff and turn it over him to say a few things.”