Considering most of the money Israel receives from the USA is predicated on them buying our weaponry, buying from another country would be real bad form...
Only Obama would do something like that...
But Obomination blocked Israel from being able to purchase more rockets for their dwindling stock of such for their Patriot Missile Defense System, until I believe someone in the Pentagon stepped in and processed the purchase anyway.
I think the man is just putting that story to press to make everybody think Israel is going to get these fighters, when they probably never will. With the dynamics in place in just this young year alone, 2016...
There is just way too much that could go even more terribly south in that timeframe.