Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Israel is preparing to completely end its reliance on U.S. military aid.
He says his goal is to make Israel’s arms industry entirely self-sufficient.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in an interview with Australian journalist Erin Molan that Israel is seeking greater independence and less reliance on US aid.
Netanyahu denied an Axios report that Israel was attempting to score a 20-year security agreement with the US, noting that “my direction is the exact opposite.”
The Prime Minister recounted that when he first took up the position in 1996, he told the US Congress that Israel no longer needed the financial aid that it had been receiving and asked to phase it out. “Everybody gasped, ‘How dare he, he’s giving up billions of dollars.’ I was happy to do it and I was right to do it,” he said, and claimed that he wants to make Israel’s arms industry as independent as possible.
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