Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that the Jewish state increasingly needs to become self-reliant amid ongoing attempts to sanction the government’s ability to import weapons.

“Israel is in a sort of isolation,” Netanyahu said, speaking at the annual conference of the Finance Ministry’s Accountant General in Jerusalem.

“We will increasingly need to adapt to an economy with autarkic characteristics,” he continued, using the term for economic self-sufficiency. “I am a believer in the free market, but we may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries are blocked.”

According to Netanyahu, Jerusalem has no choice but to morph into “Athens and super-Sparta,” because in the coming years, the Jewish state will continue to “have to deal with these attempts t

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