Washington increasingly turns open-ended security commitments into conditional, domestically driven bargains, so allies keep absorbing higher defense costs and political risk that American guarantees used to cover.
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Trump says the $4 billion a year in US military aid to Israel will end by the close of 2026, two years before the current agreement expires. It is the clearest case yet of an open-ended commitment being cut back on domestic terms, and it lands while Israel has no government and Eisenkot has not formed a coalition.
Supporting · November 11, 2026
Israel's New Knesset Opens Without a Government as Washington Moves to Cut Military Aid
Trump says the $4 billion a year in US military aid to Israel will end by the close of 2026, two years before the current agreement expires. It is the clearest case yet of an open-ended commitment being cut back on domestic terms, and it lands while Israel has no government and Eisenkot has not formed a coalition.
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