(Jerusalem Post) Michael Wilner - According to a senior Obama administration official, the Israeli government has succeeded in securing a central request in its negotiations over a decade-long U.S. defense package: A long-term guarantee of missile defense aid, incorporating an annual allocation that had previously been negotiated every year. The White House had indeed shrunk its budget proposals for Israeli missile defense consecutively over the last three years, and each year experienced pushback from Congress.
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