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The plain claim: without the United States, Israel would not exist. Donald Trump made that statement ahead of a scheduled meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu's expected purpose at that meeting is to argue for expanding the war with Iran, a term that means broadening military action against Iranian forces or interests beyond its current scope.
What the statement says Trump did not frame American support for Israel as a political choice or a conditional arrangement.
The language attributed to him, that Israel "would not survive" without the US, is a declaration of existential dependency.
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