Washington Examiner, March 2026
The joint Israel-U.S. war against Iran could complicate fledgling plans to end American financial aid to the Jewish state over the next decade. Since Feb. 28, the allies have coordinated military actions against the Shia Islamic theocracy, targeting its leadership, nuclear and ballistic missile program, and armed forces.
Given the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may need to rethink his plans to wean Israel off American military aid. That plan is already generating both surprise and skepticism and will certainly be debated even more intensely in the corridors of power in Washington and Jerusalem amid the Iran campaign’s aftermath. Which, in its early days, saw Israeli strikes kill Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
