For decades, Americans have understood the relationship between the United States and Israel through a single number: $3.8 billion a year in military aid. Earlier this month, President Trump announced that this financing would come to an end. Two weeks before he did, Rich Goldberg published an essay in National Review titled “It’s Time for a Reset in U.S.-Israel Relations,” arguing for a new understanding of the alliance between the countries, not as an aid program or even an arms-financing program, but as a joint venture.

For decades, Americans have understood the relationship between the United States and Israel through a single number: $3.8 billion a year in military aid. Earlier this month, President Trump announced that this financing would come to an end. Two weeks before he did, Rich Goldberg published an essay in National Review titled “It’s Time for a Reset in U.S.-Israel Relations,” arguing for a new understanding of the alliance between the countries, not as an aid program or even an arms-financing program, but as a joint venture.