Sneak Peek: Nadav Eyal on J.D Vance’s Comments

**Nadav Eyal** (0:04)
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Welcome to Inside Call Me Back, our members-only edition where we open the door and let you shape the conversation. Today in the hot seat, addressing your questions and personal dilemmas is Ark Media contributor, Nadav Eyal.
Nadav, welcome back to The Inside.

**Nadav Eyal** (1:19)
Thank you, I'm glad to be here again.

**Dan Senor** (1:21)
So Nadav, you are in Israel. You just mentioned to me before we started recording that you just came from Channel 12 where you were on television there. And we'll get into our members' questions in a moment. But my first question before we get into your take on the MOU is, obviously, there's a lot of news and heat being generated today from some of the things Vice President Vance said. Full disclosure, I haven't read the entire transcript of what he said, so I haven't seen every line, but there's obviously a few lines that are making their way around social media and the press, and I'm sure they are bouncing around like a pinball inside Israel. So let's just start specifically, anything that Vice President Vance said is having an impact inside Israel.

**Nadav Eyal** (2:02)
So Dan, the Vice President has a briefing today in the White House. He was criticizing elements in the Israeli cabinet that, as we know, were criticizing the deal, but they were not only criticizing the deal. They had this very acidic attacks against the President and against the Vice President, and this is what the Vice President said, If I was in the Israeli cabinet, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have left.
The thing about this, Dan, quite simply, the people feel now unward, they feel insecure. They just learned about this news of a deal with Iran that Israelis did not expect. It's not that they didn't expect the war to end. It's not that they didn't expect that there will be compromises from both sides. It's the language of the deal and the assumption of the professionals in the defense establishment that this deal is very favorable to the Iranian regime, together with the way that the government are having this open confrontation with the Trump administration, and the Trump administration is answering with these pretty amazing quotes by the vice president that have not heard or this kind of language has not been heard in reference to Israel in many years. Now, to be fair and to put it in context, the vice president and the president have been attacked by important figures of the Israeli right wing who are estimated to be close to the prime minister, main TV anchor who's close to the prime minister.

**Dan Senor** (3:47)
This is the Channel 14 anchor who's the right wing news channel in Israel and he's in this anchor's close to Netanyahu and was a big fan of Trump's.

**Nadav Eyal** (3:54)
Yeah. But now he feels like many parts of the Israeli right wing betrayed and he used the term Jew boys. The expression in Hebrew is Yehudonim, which is of itself an anti-Semitic hate speech against Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff who negotiated this deal. There is a context here. The feeling is that Netanyahu is either allowing this, which I'm not sure he is. It's not that Netanyahu picks up the phone and give orders to everyone in Channel 14 It's not how it works. Although one could conclude that they have been briefed by people close to the Prime Minister.
And that TV presenter also attacked JD. Vance in words that were even more hateful than the ones that he used for Witkoff and Kushner.
So there's a confrontation. And because of that, many people that don't come from the Israeli right wing, it's not that difficult, Dan, to find people who are very critical of Netanyahu. I know I'm surprising you.