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US Imperialist President Donald Trump announced on November 3 that he had agreed with Israeli Nazi-Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut $4 billion in yearly military funding to Israel starting next year, he told Fox & Friends.
It is unconfirmed how this will be implemented.
Trump said the cut was due to Israel not needing the aid, and that it was to repudiate criticism from the Palestine solidarity movement and the trafficking of the Democratic mafia amid the midterm electoral farce.
September 2025 polling by the Pew Research Center reports that only 22% of US adults believe that the US should provide military assistance to Israel in its genocidal war against the Palestinian resistance.
Support for Israel and the war in Iran have been major sources for the Republican mafia’s crushing electoral defeat in the midterms, according to analysis across the political spectrum. Likewise, the Democrat mafia’s resounding electoral defeat in 2024 was in part due to its role in funneling billions of dollars to Israel during its escalated genocide.
The US currently sends Israel $3.8 billion annually in military funding under a ten-year agreement signed by former President Barack Obama. Of this, $3.3 billion is Foreign Military Financing—in which Israel is required to spend the money on US weapons—and $500 million is for missile defense systems cooperation. The deal is set to expire in 2028.
Senior Israeli officials told Zionist monopoly news outlet Ynet that, contrary to Trump’s announcement, the memorandum will be renewed for another five years beginning in 2028, and will see an increase in the missile defense systems funding.
The announcement comes months after the House of Representatives approved a provision for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would increase joint technology development and integration between the US and Israeli militaries. The bill remains up for a vote in the Senate.
Netanyahu said earlier this year that he wants to “move from aid to partnership” with US imperialism. In May, he said in an interview with 60 Minutes that he wanted to reduce US financial military aid to zero over the next decade.
The NDAA provision would further conceal and facilitate US-Israeli military relations by limiting congressional oversight amid record mass hatred for Israel. US-Israeli military relations would largely be kept to the Pentagon, which has consistently failed oversight even by the standards of the US government.
Image: Donald Trump in 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017. Credit: Trump image by Gage Skidmore to Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0), Netanyahu image by Chatham House on Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
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