{"id":528160,"date":"2026-07-06T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:54:08","slug":"israeli-ambassador-to-us-we-oppose-f-35-sale-to-turkey-but-will-respect-any-decisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528160\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli ambassador to US: &#8216;We oppose F-35 sale to Turkey, but will respect any decisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said that Jerusalem opposes the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, &#8220;but will respect any American decision.&#8221; Leiter said at a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington: &#8220;We don&#8217;t believe Turkey should possess F-35 aircraft. However, Israel understands that the U.S. administration has a broader set of strategic considerations it must take into account when making the decision.&#8221; Leiter also addressed Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s statement that &#8220;the U.S. is the only ally Israel has left.&#8221; Leiter said: &#8220;If I were writing that speech, I would have phrased things a bit differently. I simply think that&#8217;s not correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said that Jerusalem opposes the sale of F-35 stealth fighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-528160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528160","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=528160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}