Day: January 26, 2024
Top US and Israeli defense officials met in Washington DC on Thursday to move forward a variety of defense deals between the countries, the Defense Ministry announced.
In September, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant submitted an official Letter of Request (LOR) to the US and to Lockheed Martin for the purchase of a third squadron of 25 F-35 aircraft, which will eventually bring Israel’s total complement to 75 aircraft.
On Thursday, Channel 12 reported, and the Jerusalem Post confirmed, that the next step in the deal, the US’s Letter of Acceptance, had been issued.
The aircraft are still not expected before 2026-2027, but moving that deal and others, including the F-15 EX fighters, Apache helicopters, and a variety of weapons and munitions, is important to the ministry at this point in the war, when there are pressures on the US-Israeli alliance.
Israel and the US signed a massive arms deal, including three full squadrons of fighter jets amidst war.https://t.co/rjtLpvsoHp
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 25, 2024
This is exactly right. Trump’s return to politics was enabled not just by vast forces beyond our control, but by the specific decisions of specific people who could have stopped him but chose not to do so. https://t.co/hba7aFnDyJ
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) January 26, 2024
Pope Francis sends a message to an awards ceremony in Lourdes dedicated to Fr. Jacques Hamel, a French priest killed in 2016, highlighting the role of information in building a ‘more fraternal world that respects everyone’s beliefs.’https://t.co/iJbG3irGmB
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) January 25, 2024
Ukraine’s bombing of oil refineries & ports in Ust-Luga in the Baltic Sea and Tuapse at the Black Sea are sound strategic attacks on Russia’s exports of petroleum products. More is likely. Russia’s folly of great concentration to the Baltic Pipeline System to St. Pete is evident. https://t.co/P1OY0OL7hi
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) January 26, 2024
ecumenical vespers – Google Search https://t.co/AP72ashwPe pic.twitter.com/XsyouFqF0T
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 26, 2024
