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Director General of the Ministry of Defense will visit Washington

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Director General of the Ministry of Defense will visit Washington

Defense Director General Eyal Zamir will visit Washington next week for talks with senior Pentagon and State Department officials about US arms sales to Israel, two senior Israeli officials said.

Senior Israeli officials say there have been significant delays in U.S. arms shipments in recent weeks and that Israel wants to resolve the problem before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Senior US officials also categorically deny that any decision to delay arms sales to Israel was made for political reasons. These officials argue that the state of war in Gaza and Lebanon at the moment does not require urgent approval for arms transfers.

Therefore, approvals are carried out in accordance with the established procedure, and this takes time.

Reasons for the ceasefire agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that arms supplies from the United States were one of the reasons for the current ceasefire agreement in Lebanon.

“We will receive weapons, some of which were captured in the United States… There were components of weapons and equipment that did not reach us, and I am sure that they will reach us. This is possible already during the transition period of administrations,” Netanyahu said in conversation with associate Yaakov Bardogo, which aired on Channel 14 on Thursday.

President Biden’s senior adviser Amos Hochstein, who brokered the ceasefire with Lebanon, has said in several interviews in recent days that the issue of arms supplies to Israel was not raised at all in the negotiations.