Posted on 07/27/2026 10:02:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump on Monday responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for criticizing his plan to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, saying, “Nobody tells me what we should be selling or not.”
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump on Tuesday at the White House during a visit to the United States, where he will also attend the wake for late Senator Lindsey Graham. Trump told reporters that he and Netanyahu are “pretty close” to the same page. “We have a little difference, but pretty close,” Trump said.
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But he made it clear that they’re not on the same page regarding Turkey.
Earlier this month, Netanyahu appeared on CNN with Dana Bash hours after Trump said he would sell F-35s to Turkey during the NATO Summit in Ankara, overturning a ban from his first term.
“He’s not exactly a model ally of the United States,” Netanyahu said, asserting that the move “doesn’t make Turkey a friendly state to the United States.”
“It would destroy the power balance in the Middle East,” he continued. “This is not a force for peace and stability… When you give them that power, you’re going to see aggression in its wake.”
WATCH:
Trump was asked on Air Force One earlier about Netanyahu’s opposition, and he essentially told the Israeli Prime Minister to pound sand.
“Well, look, Turkey’s been a great ally for me. You know, I think he’s done a very good job, did a good job with Syria. He’s a friend of mine,” Trump said of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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When I first heard about this deal I wasn’t sure I’d heard it right. On second thought, I wonder if it’s just Trump being Trump and that I should take it with a grain of salt. What he could be up to I have no idea.
Excuses.
Was that from 7 moles away, desoite supposed, ongoing monitoring of Gaza?
“Yes. Israel’s military, intelligence branches, and security agencies have openly acknowledged that they were caught completely unprepared and failed to foresee the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political office has largely deflected direct personal responsibility while blaming intelligence chiefs or pushing back on independent inquiries.Military and
Intelligence Admissions: The IDF Probe: The Israel Defense Forces released internal military investigations concluding they were wholly unprepared, misjudged Hamas’s intentions, and suffered from overconfidence and cognitive bias.
Resignations: Top defense figures, including military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, took direct responsibility for the security lapse and announced their resignations.” (Google)
“Discussions in The Times of Israel regarding Israeli policy toward Hamas finances center on two core concepts:
Qatari Cash Transfers:
Dividing Palestinian Leadership:
The Qatari Funding Policy:
Suitcase Transfers: Successive Israeli governments led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu permitted millions of dollars in cash from Qatar to be transferred directly into the Gaza Strip through Israeli crossings.
Political Strategy: Critics and analysts writing in The Times of Israel noted that the strategy intentionally maintained Hamas as the functional government in Gaza.
Strategic Goals and Aftermath:
Splitting Palestinian Factions: The underlying political logic of allowing money into Gaza was to keep the Palestinian leadership divided between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Blocking Statehood: Officials hoped that a fractured political landscape would prevent momentum toward a unified Palestinian state.” (Google)
Times of Israel
10/8/2023
ror years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
“The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from...”
More at:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
IMHO the F-35 is a fragile, single-engine half-fighter - probably approved by China before going into production.
Yup. And of course, not one of them will bring up that the Kenyan opposed F-35 sales to Israel. For that matter, he said F-35s wouldn't be going to the Gulf States either, presumably so they wouldn't have an edge on his Iranian jihadist allies.
This thread is an embarrassment.
Turkey is no friend to the US or Israel.
POTUS is wrong.
Anyone using our tech knows damn well we can lock them out.
Same with the Chinese crap and the Russian crap, probably.
Sell Turkey F-35s and in 15-20 years they will be used over Europe as air support for the Islamic revolutions.
I surely hope so...and I think so.
True. We needed Turkey in the Cold War. There should have been a formal re-evaluation. (I assume it didn’t happen, not because of the nuclear weapons there, but simply because of both the infrastructure at and desire to keep the U.S. base at Incirlik, and at some level, not wanting to offend muslims, which in today’s world, seems a bit crazy to say the least.
I always assumed our military and theirs could communicate and work together all those years, but when the attempted coup against Ergodan took place some years back (around 2016 I believe) there were unconfirmed reports that Turkey was interfering with the removal of those weapons due to the coup. (To be fair, I recall hearing this and thinking “How would they stop us from removing them?”)
Even if that is not true, the actual demonstrations by large crowds outside the base that Turkey did nothing to quell is telling. Sure, we no doubt have good defenses, but the fact that Turkey appeared to let those demonstrations proceed should have impacted our continuing decision to have any weapons there.
In any case, given the rhetoric of Ergodan, they cannot be considered a reliable or even a safe ally.
During the Gulf War 2 we had intended a second front sending infantry through Turkey and Kurdistan but were denied forcing us into a single front war.
And I remember that ISIS oil was exported and commercialized via Turkey and the Erdogan family.
There is an open sore on Trump’s presidency known as the Iranian War. It is infested with demonic Democratic maggots who are sucking the political life out of his administration. The Democratic maggots expect to ride the political and economic backlash to power. This Iranian war is the godsend to the maggots that WW I was to the Bolsheviks. Strongly suspect Trump blames Netanyahu for his suffering.
Netanyahu was just trying to warn him. Trump is delusional if he thinks that Turkey, a Muslim dictatorship, is a friend of MAGA. Erdogan is fooling him, appealing to his ego.
Trump’s not a king and his presidential time is limited.
It's almost as if he flunked history.
I recall they wouldn’t allow the 4th Infantry Division to come into Iraq from Turkey.
Scum. Ergodan is Mandami in Turkey.
Before the Iran war Bill Gates and Larry Fink and the rest of the globalist psychopaths all sounded like they were headed for the gallows. Now they are as pleased as punch.
You better man up and be ready to fight the leftist vermin.
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