From "Netanyahu's shock plot to split with US as Trump's Iran peace proposal unravels sending oil prices soaring" at the Daily Mail. The article relates:
Benjamin Netanyahu plans to 'wean' Israel off American financial support, just as Donald Trump's Iran peace proposal unravels and oil prices surge.
The Israeli prime minister was pressed on the financial support his country receives from the US during an interview with CBS News anchor Major Garrett on Sunday.
'Do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States?' Garrett asked, to which Netanyahu responded, 'Absolutely.'
'And I've said this to President Trump. I've said it in - to our own people. Their jaws drop,' the leader continued. 'I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have.'
Netanyahu went on to say he wants to begin the drawdown immediately rather than wait for the next Congress, phasing it in over the next decade, a push that comes as American support for Israel declines.
In other words, within the next 10 years, he does not see the United States being wealthy enough to support Israel at the level it is accustomed to.
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