A letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has exposed the driving force behind the push to restructure US-Israel military relations. In Netanyahu’s own words, it is “my plan”.
The letter, shared widely on social media, reveals that the transition away from American military aid to Israel is not a US-led reform, but an Israeli initiative delivered to Congress for legislative packaging. Its purpose is not to reduce American entanglement with Israel, but to replace visible financial assistance with a far deeper and less accountable form of military integration.
Dated 1 June, 2026 and addressed to Israeli lobby funded Congressman Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, the letter was released alongside a press statement announcing a House resolution introduced by Stutzman on 3 June.
In the letter, Netanyahu writes that he is “heartened” by Stutzman’s support for a plan to “develop a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States government” that will draw down “US financial military assistance over the next decade” and replace it with “a new framework of joint defence cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction and mutual investment” in areas including advanced missile defence, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, cybersecurity and next-generation military platforms.
