Netanyahu announced intention to phase out US military aid

For whatever reason, it's the only agreement Donald can't bring himself to ignore. I mean, it's in writing and everything!

Wouldn't 10 years make it signed in 2018...?

The 2016 (non-binding agreement) replaced a previous 10-year MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed in 2007 under President Bush, which committed $30 billion in military aid from 2009–2018. And before that, there was a similar agreement from 1998 under Clinton, though the amounts were smaller.

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And to anyone questioning why Obama would do such a thing. We were still in the war in the middle east. It's just weird it went from 2019-2028

Almost 100% spent in the US plus an additional $6.8 billion Israel spends annually. Conveniently, half the picture is always missing.

This isn't even "the damn article". This "the damn article" was an hour-long 60 Minutes interview that this is an out-of-context excerpt from. In particular, it grabs some quotes from the middle of a a few points Netanyahu was making about how he's already weaned Israel off of U.S. economic aid and wants to do the same with the military. He's bragging that Israel has become an economic powerhouse under his leadership that no longer accepts economic aid (he's a politician; take his bragging with an appropriate serving of salt) and saying he's going to do the same by making Israel enough of a military powerhouse to be on more even footing with the U.S.. Relevant portion of the interview for context: >MAJOR GARRETT: On that point, looking forward, Mr. Prime Minister, do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States? Meaning, what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis. >PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Absolutely. And I've said this to President Trump. I've said it in-- to our own people. Their jaws drop, but I said, "Look." >MAJOR GARRETT: What do you mean? What are you saying? >PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: What I'm saying is that I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive-- we received $3.8 billion a year. Now, it's true you spent trillions of dollars or hundreds of billions and billions of dollars in Afghanistan and so on. >And one of-- one of your Senators said, "Hell, if we had an Israel instead of Afghanistan, you know-- you know, over there, we wouldn't have to spend a trillion dollars. We wouldn't. It'd be a lot cheaper." But I'm saying it's gonna be a lot cheaper, because I want to draw down the American support for Israel to zero. We've come of age. >We have-- a booming economy. After three years of war, you know, our currency's the strongest it's ever been in the last 50 years, maybe more. Our stock market is one of the leading stock markets in the world. It's because we have this-- this very high-tech juggernaut economy, one of the two-- centers of cross-discipline-- breaking, breaking technologies just changing the world. >And we have a lot of talent here, which we share with our American friends. And we're gonna share it with our Arab friends too. And I-- I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining-- military support and go from aid to partnership. >So I want to draw down, and then I want to suggest projects, joint projects for intel, for weapons, for missile defense. Israel I think has, you know, is a leader in this in the world. Many countries come to us for it. I'd like to share it with the United States. We put an exact amount of money. You put the same. We share the fruits exactly. Now, I'm not just speaking here, because I did this. We had financial aid when I first came in in 90-- 1996. >MAJOR GARRETT:  Yes. >PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU:  First time I became Prime Minister, and I-- I was invited by the U.S. Congress for a joint session, you know, one of four such sessions. And I-- I was a young prime minister at the time, so I said, "You know, you-- you give us financial aid and you give us military aid, which also costs money. So I think we're gonna change Israel to be a free market, high-tech juggernaut, and as a result of that, I'm saying that we can wean ourselves of the financial aid that you are giving." >And all my advisors said, "What is he doing? What is he doing for a headline? He's giving up su-- such an important part to the Congress?" I said, "No, it's not a headline. We are gonna make this free market revolution," which I led and we did. And Israel indeed became a preeminent and really a gigantic force in-- >MAJOR GARRETT: Right. >PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: 4 --in econ-- what we did for the, on the economic side, I'm now gonna do on the military side. And basically have no American financial aid even on the military side for Israel. >MAJOR GARRETT: Can you give me a time table? >PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: I said, let's start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now. I don't want to wait for the next Congress. I want to start now. And-- you know, it could go down very fast, could go down very fast. But the most important thing, you know, General Keane, who was head of one of your intelligence-- services said, "Of what Israel gave to the United States just on intel," he said, "it's worth five CIAs." >Now, I don't know if it's worth five CIAs or one CIA. I respect the CIA a lot. But intangible matters. Israel is your best ally. It's the only one that really provides you with gems of intelligence, shares our incredible technology, appreciates every penny that you gave us, deeply appreciates it. >You know, if you go in Israel today, it's not like other countries. Like, everybody's pro-American because we appreciate what America stands for. We appreciate the aid that was given. We appreciate what is happening now. We share-- we appreciate President Trump's resolute stand, and the fact that the American military is performing so miraculously and so bravely alongside our brave people, our brave pilots and soldiers. We appreciate all that. But I want, I think it's time that we-- end it over time, an agreed schedule-- American military aid, and move from aid to partnership.

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In other words it's getting worse and not better

Exactly - interwining our fates/goals etc, this is worse than giving them money imo.

I take it to mean Israel knows they have like a 4 year window where relations with the us will continue as normal. Anything after that is up in the air, they've tanked relationships with the democrats and their base. The republican base is full of groyoers who are gaining more power and influence on top of the current guy in office destroying American softpower the relationship with America will not be as beneficial our openly hostile. They need to make thier own arms, but will accept American arms while it's still flowing in.

My thought is Israeli intelligence realizes there's a chance that USA might actually cut their aid in the future so they want to prepare for the possibility of that blow hitting them rather then be caught unprepared if it does happen

This is absolutely what I assumed as soon as I saw the headline.

So now Israel wants to own the US military sector directly, and Titler will give it to him. What an incredible load of c***.

This is actually worse. They’re basically openly admitting they’ve fully infiltrated the US government.

There's a lot of Mondays coming up, good luck!

Did you?

Will present my concept of a plan in two weeks.

Notice he is only saying this because the current 10 year deal is about to expire. Of course he wants to phase out in the next 10 years… he wants another 10 years right now

Obviously not *this* Monday, I've got an event planned.

Um... I'm guessing a lot of people are only reading the headline They're not abolishing ties with the US, they're aiming to deepen them Headline is just clickbait. It's technically true but also misleading

“But keep sending us billions of dollars. We are just not going to give any of it back by buying US weapons.”

Except for Palestinians. Less leverage for the US to use to restraint Israel. Also, all of those protests are gonna die now, because the reason for hyper focusing on Israel while there are worse atrocities happening in the world was the US aid to Israel, right?

not to employees of Lockhead Martin as Boeimg has 8.6 bil coming from Israel invesements and 6 bil for Lockhead alone

I'm willing to bet the second they aren't dependent on the US they also stop being our allies. 

It’s 100% this. Plus with all the startup exits every week in Israel, it would be extremely easy to replace. when aid started Israel wasn’t selling over 2 tech companies **per week** like today. Each sale triggers multiple layers of corporate and personal income taxes Wiz selling to Google a few months ago triggered $3.5B in income. And since there have been some more large-ish ones

I would say it is. Both parties are shifting away from the unequivocal support for Israel (L>R). Hopefully they do remain an ally. I’m sure China will happily dump whatever alliance they have with Iran for a strong partnership with Israel.

Look man, we're trying to hate Israel in this post. Focus...

I mean, I don't doubt it since he said he wants to be partners with the US, which seems more in line with our government's viewpoints. >According to the Prime Minister, Israel must transition from an aid model to a format of equal partnership with the United States.

I don’t  If I were in Israel’s shoes, I’d be terrified of being dependent on aid from the U.S., given how so much of our populace feels about them To no longer be reliant on aid, to be fully self-sufficient, would seem like security and safety 

Well, yeah. US military aid to Israel has always been used by the US to suppress domestic Israeli arms development. That's part of what the US gets out of that expense - in addition to limiting that money exclusively for purchases from US arms manufacturers, so the money functions as a subsidy to those US companies. Ending US military aid to Israel will remove that leverage.

They have had their own small scale defense industry for decades. They make their own tanks like the Merkava  IWI(formerly IMI) makes small arms(rifles like the Tavor, pistols like the Jericho and Desert Eagle, submachine guns like the the Uzi, has a license from Colt to make M16-M4 pattern rifles and carbines for the IDF)  Elbit systems, which also has offices in other countries like th the UK, makes drones. Electronic warfare( battlefield jamming equipment and other things) lasers(such as the so called Iron beam project to shoot down missiles with lasers) etc for Israel and also for sale to other countries  . Elbits UK factory was broken into by members of Palestinain Action in 2024 and the ones who did so where convicted in UK courts for trespassing and criminal damage a few days ago. They have other companies that are are similar to elbit systems. Israeli companies export  electronic warfare and laser weapons to their western allies.

In terms of military equipment no one is weakening US soft power more than the US itself. Half the world bought from the US and with Trumps second term in office, the US by now basically lost all these customers.

Your surprised a US president supported Israel? Try learning some history dawg

Yeah, lol, It's going to be a funny day for leftists to discover that no, the funding for military aid to Israel will not magically fund every problem the US has.

I can’t stand Netanyahu, but I have to admit he understands geopolitical psychology very well. If he thinks Israel is losing support in the US, he knows it means it’s time to put on the act of “dislodging” from US whilst secretly keeping all the backroom support. People underestimate his wile to their own detriment.

We’ll see what happens given the Supreme Court has turned this country redistricting shitshow

We're just finishing up the 12 year agreement that was signed by Obama.