Rubio Says Israel Has 'Graduated' From U.S. Military Financing and Can Fund Its Own Arms Purchases
On November 9, speaking to reporters before travelling to Paris for the G7 foreign ministers' meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that on military financing, "Israel has clearly graduated beyond that at this point." He said: "Israel is now prosperous and rich enough to be able to be a sales country. They can buy weapons from us, but we no longer have to provide the financing." He added that the Israelis themselves had offered this.
Asked whether Israel could finance its own purchases starting in 2027, Rubio replied: "Well, that's what the president said we're going to do… yeah, absolutely." On November 3, President Trump said the roughly $4 billion a year the United States provides to Israel would end after 2026, and that he had reached an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Under the current U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding, the United States provides $3.8 billion a year in military assistance through September 2028, $3.3 billion in foreign military financing and $0.5 billion for missile-defence cooperation. Any change to the financing arrangement requires Congress, and how the memorandum is succeeded will be a focus of talks between Washington and Jerusalem.
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(Source: U.S. Department of State)
Source: U.S. Department of State
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