In the middle of the war, when we needed them most, the bombs stopped coming. In May 2024, Washington quietly held back a shipment of heavy bombs because it didn’t like how we were fighting in Rafah. The weapons were ours, paid for and promised, and overnight they became a bargaining chip. Every Israeli should have felt a chill.

It wasn’t only the bombs. The Biden administration also made us sign a memo promising how we would and wouldn’t use American weapons, and it froze a shipment of armored bulldozers on top of that. And remember: this was a friendly president, one who proudly called himself a Zionist. The next one might not be. We cannot bet the survival of the country on who happens to win an American election.

Here is the part most of us never think about. By American law, the aid money we get has to be spent buying American weapons. For years, we had a special arrangement that allowed us to spend about........

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