Lately I have stopped going to the major newspapers first thing in the morning. I have also cancelled my subscription to The New York Times and for some reason someone at the subscription desk cancelled my access that was due to expire later in November. David French had logged in the other day …. Please can you read what I wrote? in a sort of groveling way that made me question if it was actually David French, ex-JAG Officer from some unit somewhere. I tried, he knows I tried to login…nope — access cancelled. Like a 1 year free base pass to Fort Leonard Wood that expired before its time.
I have figured out that if one wants to know what’s happening in America, the best way is Google News and Yahoo News. AOL News if I want some ready seedy stuff. Maybe AOL will get a younger algorithm or model for an assist. I suppose I could go to Bing News too but the whole awards thing gives me the creeps. Bing sends me awards about things I am thinking about. I suppose the creepiness started with Clippy. Clip would startle me when I was composing a word document by jumping out from behind the document. Would you like help with that? Ah glory days. Now, I open a new yahoo email account and suddenly Alexa wants permission to track me.
As I keep saying bloodlines are everywhere. After having demonstrated the utter failure of cyber organizations at keeping the internet secure, frontier AI companies are now buying cyber security companies. Sort of a mea “culpa” but worth rewards, while “bility” was on vacation. SquareSpace AI simply refuses to do anything I ask. Make this funnier I say to it. Nope. Error. Can’t do it. Anyways, I keep thinking about what the purpose of media is if not to inform their readers about what is happening in the world and in their respective countries. Sure there are programs people can upload to make “connections” with their tribe on say a post about Wittgenstein or Heidegger or Marx or Tolstoy or Confucius or CFIUS Committee in Washington DC that is meant to prevent foreign ownership. I find naming conventions to be audacious, blatant and declarative of intent. Don’t you? The whole MSS, Moss and MSS snafus notwithstanding there are yet more unambiguous things that are just sort of … out there. I forget what they are but when I remember I’ll post them for you. If you the reader thinks of them, send me a telepathic message and remind me to write it on a post it note somewhere.
I stopped reading major news media because of their explicit and clear bias for The State Of Israel, even as they commit very large acts of terrorism (thousands of simultaneous pager explosions turning ordinary electronics into bombs and much more) to war crimes to explicit murder of children to genocide. If you don’t believe me, for a second imagine if Palestinians had done the exact same things to Israelis. The silence would be deafening. That same sort of silence is prevalent today in the following: Trump made a major announcement that should have been covered immediately. Trump is stopping the $4 billion dollars of annual aid that America provides to Israel for arms and “other stuff.” For those who follow events in the Middle East, this aid to Israel has been a discussed issue in Washington D.C. through several decades and multiple administrations. It is the major issue that Israeli lobbies work on when they support candidates everywhere. If a politician does not support explicit aid to Israel they’re immediately targeted by negative advertisements paid for by Israeli lobbies that fund PACS and Super PACS and pressure from multiple sources. In American politics, at the U.N. certainly, it is a Rorschach test of sorts for any aspiring politician, diplomat, intelligence officer to the Middle East and elsewhere and often in finance and entertainment. Here are the news organizations who have covered this news so far in America: FoxNews (where Trump broke the news), CNN, NBC. That’s it. The other news organization who have covered it are Al Jazeera, Le Monde (who claims its 3.8Bn not 4Bn) Arab News and Yahoo! News.
I asked Google why that was.
Google» Their newsrooms are likely waiting to pair the breaking quotes with formal statements from the White House, the State Department, and Benjamin Netanyahu's office to confirm if this represents an official, legal policy shift or an Election Day campaign talking point.
This is massive news though. I mean it’s bigger than a massive political earthquake. Or maybe it’s just massive to me cause I’ve been following this for way too long and my conscience has as an American taxpayer that funds that military aid dollars to Israel, has bothered me for way too long. It’s always in my mind been a sort of… bombing of Palestinians, made in America and paid for by American citizens. The culpability for using the bombs is what gets hidden in the media… that culpability lies in the hands of the IDF, the Generals, the Zionists who run Israel etc.
NOTES IN THE MARGIN.
Yes, other major international and domestic news outlets are actively covering this breaking story.
President Donald Trump announced earlier this morning, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, during a phone interview on Fox News' Fox & Friends that the U.S. will stop providing $4 billion in annual aid to Israel. The announcement has triggered immediate, widespread coverage across multiple major platforms: [1, 2]
Associated Press (AP): Published a detailed report noting that Trump framed the move around Israel transitioning to buying its own military hardware. [1, 2]
BBC News: Released a breaking report confirming that Trump stated the funding will end by the close of the year following a deal struck with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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NBC News: Highlighted that the decision was timed alongside voters heading to the polls for the midterm elections, noting that oil prices slid immediately following the president's comments. [1]
Fox News: As the host of the interview on Fox & Friends, Fox News published the primary domestic report detailing Trump's quotes on the $4 billion cutoff.
ABC News: Outlets like ABC7 New York and local affiliates have pushed breaking alerts focused on the transition to arms sales.
Yahoo News: Serving as a major digital aggregator for American readers, Yahoo News has placed the story prominently on its politics landing page. [1, 2, 3]
CNN: For a major U.S. alternative, CNN Politics has published a highly comprehensive breakdown analyzing the 10-year Memorandum of Understanding that was originally slated to run through 2028. [1]
Al Jazeera English: Features the story as a central headline on their Donald Trump News hub, breaking down how military funding has become a massive domestic campaign flashpoint. [1]
Le Monde (France): Ranks the announcement as a critical Middle East bulletin on its International desk, emphasizing that this effectively removes a major historic pillar of U.S. military support for Israel.[1, 2]
Arab News: Standardized coverage is live on their Middle East portal, tracking the specific regional political dynamics and noting the lack of immediate confirmation from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office.[1]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the long-term tapering of U.S. military assistance on multiple occasions, but his most explicit public statement on the matter occurred just recently in late October 2026, just days before the Israeli legislative elections. [1]
While Trump referenced today that they had been discussing the concept "for a couple of years", Netanyahu began publicly preparing the Israeli public for a change in the funding model through these specific checkpoints: [1]
Late October 2026 (Days Before the Israeli Elections): Netanyahu directly told an Israeli news channel that the era of massive U.S. defense aid packages was drawing to a close. He stated plainly: "If you think we're going to continue receiving what I secured twice, tens of billions of dollars in American aid for the defense budget, get used to the fact that we won't." [1]
May 2026: Formal discussions between the U.S. and Israel began regarding how to replace or transition the current 10-year military aid Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which was originally scheduled to run through 2028. [1]
January 2026: Netanyahu stated in interviews earlier in the year that his long-term goal was to "taper off" direct American military aid over the coming decade, aiming for greater defense budget independence while preserving joint strategic cooperation on missile defense. [1, 2]
While Netanyahu has laid the groundwork for a multi-year transition, media outlets note that Trump’s abrupt timeline to cut the funding "at the end of this year" is significantly shorter than any timeline Netanyahu had previously floated in public. [1]
The United States has provided approximately $80 billion to $85 billion in nominal bilateral assistance(exceeding $100 billion when adjusted for inflation) to Israel across Benjamin Netanyahu’s three tenures as prime minister. [1, 2]
Because the Congressional Research Service (CRS) tracks cumulative U.S. aid to Israel from 1946 to 2025 at approximately $175 billion in nominal obligations, nearly half of all U.S. aid in Israel's history has been authorized during Netanyahu's administrations. [1, 2]
Breakdown Across Netanyahu's Prime Ministerial Terms
Netanyahu has governed across three separate periods, spanning over 18 years: [1, 2]
First Term (FY 1997 – FY 1999): ~$9.0 billion
During his first term (June 1996 – July 1999), Israel received approximately $3.0 billion annually, split between military assistance (~$1.8B) and economic aid (~$1.2B).
Netanyahu famously addressed a joint session of Congress in 1996 pledging to phase out U.S. economic aid, initiating the shift toward exclusive defense funding. [1, 2]
Second Term (FY 2010 – FY 2021): ~$45.0 billion
Covering over 12 continuous years (March 2009 – June 2021), this period spanned two 10-year Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs).
2009–2018 (Bush MOU): Israel received roughly $3.0 billion to $3.1 billion annually in Foreign Military Financing (FMF), plus $400 million to $700 million annually in cooperative missile defense appropriations (Iron Dome, David's Sling, Arrow).
2019–2021 (Obama MOU): The first three years of the 2016 MOU provided $3.8 billion per year ($3.3 billion FMF + $500 million missile defense). [1, 2, 3]
Third Term (FY 2023 – Present/2026): ~$26.0 billion to $28.0 billion
Returning to office in December 2022, Netanyahu oversaw standard annual MOU disbursements of $3.8 billion per year for FY 2023, FY 2025, and FY 2026.
Emergency Supplementals (FY 2024): Following the October 7, 2023 attacks, the U.S. passed major security supplementals (including P.L. 118-50), surging fiscal year 2024 obligations to roughly $12.5 billion to $14 billion in combined FMF, missile defense, and Iron Beam replenishment. [1, 2, 3, 4]
