HOUSE OVERSIGHT 032165 and ally, Israel is a Sovereign state and when our security and the future of Israel and the Jewish people are at stake we might need to take tough decisions on our own. We cannot and will not, I added, delegate the responsibility for such decisions to even our best friends ,. We respect the fact that we might have different views. American Presidents have always understood that . We also must have the same respect when the US decides it is its interest to take decisions we might not fully agree with. this relation is of course not fully symmetric. It is the US which will provides Israel with the new F- 35s and ensures the Qualitative Edge of the IDF vis a vis any combination of neighbors. It is the US who significantly financed the Iron Dome, Arrow and David's Sling missile defense systems. It is the US that has commited to defend Israel in the event of a missile attack from Iran. We should never forget it. The recent spurt of verbal exchanges is a worrying signal that something has gone wrong. It