Trump Says US Will Halt 'Contentious' Aid to Israel by Year's End
Officials say the cutoff could leave a $3.8 billion annual shortfall and force Israel to find new funding for jets and ammunition.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that Washington will terminate the annual $4 billion security assistance accord with Israel by the end of the year.
- Under a 10-year memorandum signed in 2016, Washington committed $38 billion in military assistance through 2028; Trump claimed he reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu months earlier to end the funding.
- Israeli defense and finance officials are assessing the impact, as KAN reported the cutoff could leave a 12 billion shekels annual gap in the defense budget, complicating efforts to replenish military stocks.
- Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot and Yisrael Beytenu party member Avigdor Liberman criticized Netanyahu following the announcement. Liberman stated, 'We can no longer rely on him and must replace him.'
- Trump linked the decision to U.S. domestic politics, citing attacks from Democrats like Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Analysts noted the timing of the announcement remained a critical issue.
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Donald Trump announced Tuesday, November 3rd, against all expectations, to put an end to an annual aid of $3.8 billion to Israel, on the day of the mid-term elections in the United States, where the question of support for Israel is being debated. Gadi Eisenkot estimated on the same day that this announcement by the US President showed that Benjamin Netanyahu had to "go." Stéphan Amar, correspondent for France 24 in Jerusalem, said.
Trump says US will halt 'contentious' aid to Israel by year's end
US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Washington would end its annual $3.8 billion (€3.4 billion) in aid to Israel, based on a mutual decision. The news coincided with midterm elections in which support for Israel has been a contentious issue.
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