Netanyahu Signals Break from US Arms Dependency as Washington Pressure Mounts
🎖️ JERUSALEM — Netanyahu floats arms independence the week Trump called him a problem. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Declaring arms independence is Netanyahu's public answer to Trump's Lebanon pressure — signaling he'd absorb the rupture before complying. Israel's defense industry can't replace US resupply on any real timeline; this is posture, not policy. But said publicly, it raises Trump's cost: pushing an ally into self-reliance is a bad headline. Vance loses a lever at exactly the wrong moment in Bürgenstock.
