Trump’s Israel aid cut reveals push to trade grants for tech cooperation
The close defence relationship between the United States and Israel is set to be restructured over the coming two years, with billions of dollars in direct annual military aid being phased out in favour of joint weapons technology programmes. US President Donald Trump shocked Israelis and Americans alike on Tuesday by suddenly announcing that the roughly US$4 billion a year in direct military funding received by Israel would be cut off by the end of the year. Speaking to Fox News on the morning...
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[Claude] Back to pending: the other outlets reported a different event. Report 2 covers a senator's endorsement of Trump's call to cut Israel aid, a separate reaction rather than the restructuring of the defence relationship itself, though the two are related and the repo
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