{"id":917299,"date":"2026-07-06T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917299\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:59:14","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-warns-donald-trump-against-sale-of-f-35s-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917299\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu warns Donald Trump against sale of F-35s to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> warned that if the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-900742\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gives Turkey F-35 fighter jets<\/a>, it may upset the balance of power in the Middle East and threaten Israeli air superiority in the region during an interview with Fox and Friends on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkey is a great country, but it&#8217;s governed by a man who calls openly for the annihilation of Israel,\u201d Netanyahu said in reference to Turkish President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-901385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a>. \u201cHe occupies half of Cyprus, a NATO country. He&#8217;s threatening Greece, another NATO country, and he talks openly about conquering Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He drew attention to the presence and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in Turkey, asserting that Ankara\u2019s leadership is \u201ca regime infected by the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d that \u201chates America and chants death to America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Netanyahu added that giving Ankara F-35s or fighter jet engines would \u201cupset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also by, I think, by America&#8217;s posture in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Netanyahu also cited Turkish support for Hamas and lack of action against the Islamic regime in Iran as further reasons why US President Donald Trump should not help Ankara acquire F-35s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump is set to meet with Erdogan this week during the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Netanyahu also denied experiencing any substantial strain in his relationship with Trump, telling Fox that they &#8220;see eye-to-eye on just about everything\u201d and \u201care the best of allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">When asked about Trump&#8217;s comments indicating some tension between the two, Netanyahu dismissed them, saying, &#8220;The president has his way of expressing things and so do I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He said he hopes to discuss the Israel-Lebanon peace deal during the meeting to advance the implementation of the US-facilitated agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that if the US gives Turkey F-35 fighter jets, it may upset the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":917300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,69,49265,654,99,50,32307,24922,67,31231],"class_list":["post-917299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-f-35","tag-fox-news","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116875517639738778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}