Israel discusses bearing its own costs for purchasing US-made weapons… negotiating the timing of the end of support

The U.S. and Israel are negotiating to end Washington's funding of Israeli arms purchases, with Israel covering the cost of American-made weapons from its own budget while U.S. arms sales continue. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris on the 9th that Israel is now prosperous enough to buy U.S. weapons without American purchase financing, and that Israel itself proposed the shift. Rubio said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to move from Foreign Military Financing (FMF) support to the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) framework. The change matters because it would reduce a long-standing U.S. subsidy while preserving American defense sales to Israel. What to watch next is the timing of the transition and the terms of the FMS arrangement.