{"id":230689,"date":"2016-03-10T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-israel-getting-closer-to-new-military-aid-deal-despite-tensions\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:54:47","slug":"us-israel-getting-closer-to-new-military-aid-deal-despite-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-israel-getting-closer-to-new-military-aid-deal-despite-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Israel getting closer to new military aid deal despite tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"76\">\n<p><strong>The United States has signaled that it is moving toward a new military assistance deal with Israel, even as ties between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain tense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Vice President Joe Biden, in Israel for a meeting with Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that Israel&#8217;s military superiority in the Middle East should be preserved in terms of the quantity as well as the quality of its weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to making sure that Israel can defend itself against all serious threats, maintain its qualitative edge with a quantity sufficient to maintain that,&#8221; Biden told reporters after meeting Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s &#8220;very, very tough neighborhood, a tough and changing neighborhood&#8221; necessitated such assistance, Biden said, adding that Obama had &#8220;done more to help bolster Israel&#8217;s security than any other administration in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Tel Aviv are negotiating a new 10-year US military aid package to replace the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/10\/454978\/military-assistance-deal-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has signaled that it is moving toward a new military assistance deal with Israel, even as ties between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain tense. US Vice President Joe Biden, in Israel for a meeting with Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that Israel&#8217;s military superiority in the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}