{"id":509287,"date":"2026-06-24T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509287\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:08:11","slug":"why-does-israel-want-to-be-less-dependent-on-us-weapons-military-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509287\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Israel want to be less dependent on US weapons? | Military News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Israel to pursue \u2018armaments independence\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he\u2019s grateful to the United States for its military aid but that it\u2019s time for Israel to build its own weapons-production capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His announcement comes as tensions grow over the US peace agreement with Iran, but also as demand soars for Israel\u2019s weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Israel\u2019s decades-long occupation and the genocide in Gaza allow it to market its products as \u201ccombat-proven\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And business is booming. Israel\u2019s arms exports hit a record $19bn last year. Supporters say that strengthens the country\u2019s ability to stand on its own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yet, independence comes at a price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Can Israel afford to lose its greatest ally?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Alexandre Vautravers \u2013 Security and defence policy specialist<\/p>\n<p>Michael Mulroy \u2013 Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Antony Loewenstein \u2013 Author of the book The Palestine Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>Published On 24 Jun 202624 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Israel to pursue \u2018armaments independence\u2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,44,47,2899,43,9599,4055,1032,1156,3803],"class_list":["post-509287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-show-types","tag-tv-shows","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}