Vance says Israel has been ‘remarkably helpful’ in implementing Gaza plan, projects optimism

Vance hails Israel and other Arab and Muslim countries for helping advance the US-backed ceasefire plan in Gaza.

“The Israeli government has been remarkably helpful” in implementing the plan, Vance says, while also praising partners “all across the Gulf Arab States, Indonesia, the Turks.”

“We are doing an amazing thing here,” he says.

Vance criticizes what he describes as a “weird attitude” in American and Western media, “that every time something bad happens, every time that there’s an act of violence, there’s 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,” he says, adding that “this is 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.”