[Trump Demands Israel Repay Full Costs of the Iran War: Israel Would Not Exist Without the US] Golden Finance reports that US President Donald Trump made extremely tough remarks towards Middle Eastern allies in an interview broadcast on CBS's "60 Minutes" on November 8th. He explicitly demanded that Israel and other countries protected by the US must repay the US in full "every penny" incurred due to the Iran war. Trump stated bluntly on the program: "At the end of the war, these protected countries must repay us for everything, and we will definitely get that money back." He insisted that it was his order to deploy B-2 bombers to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities in 2025 that saved Israel. Trump emphasized: "Without us, they simply wouldn't have survived. Without us, Israel wouldn't exist." Just days before this statement (November 3rd), the Trump administration announced an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that the US would cease providing approximately $4 billion annually in conventional military aid to Israel by the end of 2026, arguing that Israel was already prosperous enough and "no longer needed conventional support." Analysts believe that Trump's statement marks an accelerated shift in the traditional US-Israel alliance towards a model of "commercialization and paid protection."