Svmuu News: U.S. Vice President Vance is preparing to undertake the most significant mission of his career: leading American efforts to end the war, a conflict he had reservations about from the very beginning. Vance has held multiple phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and has been involved in indirect communications with the Iranians. He is expected to become the chief U.S. negotiator in potential peace talks. According to U.S. and Israeli sources, Vance was deeply skeptical of Israel's optimistic pre-war assessments about the course of the conflict and currently anticipates the war will last for several more weeks. Vance's advisors believe that some within Israel are attempting to sideline the Vice President, possibly because they view him as not being tough enough. Israeli officials have denied this. White House officials stated that Vance's seniority within the administration, coupled with his consistent opposition to endless overseas conflicts, makes him a more acceptable interlocutor for the Iranians than Witkoff and Kushner (the latter two led the previous two rounds of failed negotiations). (Jin10)