Speaking to reporters during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance emphasized that maintaining the current ceasefire requires “monitoring” and “a lot of work.”

Responding to a reporter’s question about why President Donald Trump sent Vance, Jared Kushner, envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Israel if the ceasefire is as stable as the administration claims, Vance said, “Look, this thing takes monitoring. It’s going to take a lot of work... It’s not easy. I never said it was easy, but what I am is optimistic that the ceasefire is going to hold and that we can actually build a better future in the entire Middle East.”

“But that requires some work,” Vance continued. “So it’s not about monitoring in the sense of, y

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