Netanyahu wants to wean Israel off US military support, he tells CBS

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 10, 2026 7:59 PM EDT Updated 8 hours ago


May 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to wean Israel off U.S. military support within a decade ‌as his country pushes to strengthen ties with Gulf states, he said in an interview that aired on Sunday.

"I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have," Netanyahu told CBS News' "60 Minutes" program.

Netanyahu said Israel ​receives about $3.8 billion of U.S. military aid a year. The U.S. has agreed to provide a total of $38 billion ​in military aid to Israel from 2018 to 2028. But it is "absolutely" the right time to ⁠possibly reset the U.S.-Israeli financial relationship, Netanyahu said. "I don't want to wait for the next Congress," he told CBS. "I want ​to start now."

Israel has long had bipartisan consensus within the U.S. Congress for military aid, but support from lawmakers and ​the public has frayed since the outbreak of war in Gaza in October 2023.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-wants-wean-israel-off-us-military-support-he-tells-cbs-2026-05-10/

[hlthe2b]

1. Uh, huh... Well, Bibi thinking the Arab Gulf States will be Israel's protectors is pretty rich...

But, yes. Please continue to rub Trump's face in that pile of feces (not to mention that $50 billion worth of lost munitions, bombs, planes used for your Iranian War, Bibi). He certainly deserves it. We don't. But I guess we have no choice.

And some wonder why so many Americans are turning against Bibi Netanyahu especially and Israeli support ultimately. Congrats Bibi and Trump. You've done what I'd never have thought would happen in this country--turned us against Israel--just as you have all of our other alliances.

[JBTaurus83]

2. Great news! I agree

And let’s see how those new friends work out for them LOL.

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. Without US leverage, land grabs and ethnic cleansing is easier

Smart move.

[gab13by13]

4. What leverage?

Have you checked how much money Congress has taken from AIPAC? Including Democrats.

Bibi would never have invaded Iran and Lebanon without our participation.

Maybe Bibi feels he doesn't need us now to attain his land grab of Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon?

The UAE and Saudi Arabia paid Krasnov a lot of money to invade Iran, it wasn't just Bibi who coerced Krasnov.

[The Wizard]

5. More lies

from the war criminal.

[magicarpet]

27. Oh Bibi is really in no great rush,...

... first he wants to drain the US Treasury and Fort Knox bone dry.

Then he will skedaddle elsewhere looking for virgin green pastures to suck bone dry once again.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. "Right after you get Iran's enriched uranium."

“You” being the operative word.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I'd like to help him by stopping the flow of weapons and money to Israel.

[taxi]

8. Israel took payments in their first US lottery win over time.

It sounds like they have once again won the US lottery, this time settling for a one time cash payout. Of course I am only throwing spaghetti at a wall. It is just as likely that someone has an annuity and needs cash now.

[Ray Bruns]

9. Yeah, sure. And I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn. Cheap!

[ChicagoTeamster]

10. Good, send back the weapons shipment Israel just got from the US so we can send it to Ukraine.

[Autumn]

11. Please do so.

fuck that guy LOL

[EuterpeThelo]

12. Why wait?

How about pulling that needle out of your arm NOW, Satanyahu?

[PSPS]

13. When will he replace the star on the flag with the more appropriate swastika?

[magicarpet]

29. Oh my goodness,... that should not be said out loud.

Even though Israel has been a Fascist State for sometime now.

Oh fuck it,..
It is long past due time this endless masquerade party be infused with a healthy dose of genuine honesty and reality.

[ToxMarz]

14. Yes because the Arab Gulf states will be so reliably supportive of Israels existence and expansion

to fulfill the biblical prophecy of the second coming of Christ and the end times. No different from the Christian conservatives Good luck with that.

[drmeow]

15. He hopes to wean?

What a perfect yet also wrong choice of words. Weaning is usually about the mother putting restrictions on the breastfeeding - babies don't want to give that up till they're into toddlerhood! US military support must be starting to look like a liability since Israel has spent decades acting like the spoiled rich kid who still wants daddy to pay for everything because they think they deserve it. Netanyahu can f*** off and die as far as I'm concerned.

[PatSeg]

21. I remember years ago when

Netanyahu said he had the U.S. wrapped around his little finger, implying he could do pretty much anything and never lose American support and money.

He's used the very real pain and suffering of the Jewish people as an excuse to be an authoritarian warmonger. If other nations complain, he accuses them of being "antisemitic".

No sane person condones the brutal genocide of the Jewish people in the 1930s and 1940s, as no one should condone what Netanyahu is doing to his neighbors in the Middle East.

Sometimes it appears as if we've never really learned anything. History just keeps repeating itself, different players using the same old script.

[Katcat]

16. While you're at it Bibi

How about weaning your country off the US monetarily too

[Mawspam2]

17. Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to wean Israel off U.S. military support

Anyone who has tried to quit smoking cigarettes knows, cutting back slowly won't stop your addiction. Nope, cold-turkey is the way to go. Shut off all weapons and funding. Israel is not a democracy when half of its population is not allowed to vote.

[Magoo48]

18. Don't send them another fucking nickel.

They’re weaned.

[LeftInTX]

19. What??? I think it's BS. Israel elections are in October...

[Figarosmom]

20. Sure, first he gets all of the Middle East to hate us

Instead of Israel by putting us as the face of the attack on Iran. Therefore it wasn't Israel that started it and got the rest of the countries attacked it was America. Then Israel turns on us and out and out blames us while they become the hero of the Middle East a d America the enemy. Don't tell me this wasn't the plan. Whoever Israel got to carry out the attacks ( America or Great Britain or EU) he was going to blame them.

[tonekat]

22. Who is in command of the U.S. Armed Forces?

Why, that would be NuttyYahoo, of course!

[magicarpet]

30. Israel's hegemony over the entire Middle East Area is the fevered dream..

Greater Israel finally expands from the western shores of the Mediterranean Sea all the way to the eastern shores of the Euphrates River and all the lands in between including parts of Iraq and all of Jordan. If natural gas and petroleum resources were captured in parts of any land grab deal would be just dandy. Israel would be just ecstatic and elated to become a member of the bottomless oil fields - petro dollars cartel.

Then robbing the American taxpayer's piggy bank would no longer be such a dire and frequent necessity.

Netanyahu was wondering,... would Iran mind becoming a vassal state of Motherland Irael ? Bibi has a plan and a deal he would like to run by Iran. We take your oil,... you take a hike and get lost.

[BadgerMom]

23. On this one, I'm right there with you, Bibi.

[BigmanPigman]

24. "Netanyahu AND CBS"...

That's all that needs to be said. State media at its finest hour. Bye bye Bari and Benj...drop dead together ASAP!

[poozwah]

25. right

sure he does! and donald trump wants stronger anti corruption laws. and bobby kennedy wants more vaccines. and pete hegseth is a long time member of alcoholics anonymous. and krash patel wants to turn over the fbi files on epstein.

[underpants]

26. Good news but it's like Billy Bob saying he's laying off the Bud Lights.

[EarthFirst]

28. By my count; Israel has received $20-$30 billion in US military aid in the past twelve weeks...

…so this “within a decade…” charade could end up in the $50 billion range by the midterms; by which point I hope that with a newly elected Congress; they tell him to go pound sand on another decade of funding.