{"id":390850,"date":"2018-12-28T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-outgoing-pentagon-chief-mattis-says-no-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:00:31","slug":"presstv-outgoing-pentagon-chief-mattis-says-no-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-outgoing-pentagon-chief-mattis-says-no-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;Outgoing Pentagon chief Mattis says no to Israel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Outgoing United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis has rejected an appeal made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve an Israeli sale of US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington criticized the sale as a move to weaken and compete with the American arms market, according to an unnamed Israeli official speaking to Israel\u2019s\u00a0Channel 10\u00a0television network on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The $500-million sale of 12 F-16 aircraft to Croatia, equipped with Israeli electronic systems, required American approval.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, however, demanded that Israel only sell the planes in their original condition, removing the Israeli upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Mattis reportedly rejected a personal appeal by Netanyahu two weeks ago, reminding the Israeli prime minister that the United States \u201cgoes to great lengths to help its closest ally in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli official added that &#8220;for reasons we don&#8217;t fully understand, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/28\/584199\/Mattis-Israel-jets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis has rejected an appeal made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve an Israeli sale of US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets, a report says. Washington criticized the sale as a move to weaken and compete with the American arms market, according to an unnamed Israeli official speaking [&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-390850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}