{"id":284148,"date":"2016-12-12T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carter-arrives-in-israel-over-tel-aviv-purchase-of-f-35s\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:50:53","slug":"carter-arrives-in-israel-over-tel-aviv-purchase-of-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carter-arrives-in-israel-over-tel-aviv-purchase-of-f-35s\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter arrives in Israel over Tel Aviv purchase of F-35s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is visiting Israel to celebrate delivery of two F-35 fighter planes to the regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pentagon chief was welcomed\u00a0by the Israeli minister of military affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, as he arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The regime is reportedly planning to buy 50 next-generation F-35s, which the Israeli military chief claimed would &#8220;present another component in maintaining air superiority in our region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The jets&#8217; arrival from Italy in the afternoon was initially delayed due to bad weather condition.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161212\/d1147a72-e076-4bbe-9c5d-a6a8fa469206.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (3rdR) looks at one of the first two F-35 stealth fighter jets purchased in the United States next to its pilot (2ndR), an Israeli officer, after he landed on December 12, 2016 at the Israeli Nevatim air force base in the Negev desert. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the F-35 manufacturing program over its high costs as well as long delays in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/12\/497617\/Carter-in-Israel-to-celebrate-F35s-arrival-Avigdor-Lieberman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is visiting Israel to celebrate delivery of two F-35 fighter planes to the regime. The pentagon chief was welcomed\u00a0by the Israeli minister of military affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, as he arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday. The regime is reportedly planning to buy 50 next-generation F-35s, which the Israeli military chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284148","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=284148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}