Illustrative image. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
U.S. President Donald Trump revealed on November 14 that he is considering agreeing to a deal to supply Saudi Arabia with F-35 Lightning stealth strike fighters.
“They wanna buy a lot of jets,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I’m looking at that. They’ve asked me to look at it. They want to buy a lot of ‘35’ – but they want to buy actually more than that, fighter jets.”
Trump plans to host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House next week. The two are expected to sign major economic and defense agreements.
Asked about the talks, Trump told reporters it was “more than meeting, we’re honoring” Saudi Arabia, adding that he hoped Saudi would soon join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel.
The very next day, November 15, Axios reported that Israel does not object to the sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia but insists that any transfer of such advanced fighter jets be conditioned on the normalization of relations.
The report, by journalist Barak Ravid, cites two Israeli sources involved in the matter who state that Israel views Saudi Arabia obtaining the jets differently than it does with countries such as Turkey.
“We told the Trump administration that the supply of F-35s to Saudi Arabia needs to be subject to Saudi normalization with Israel,” Axios quotes an Israeli official stating, insisting that not conditioning the sale on diplomatic progress between the two nations would be “counterproductive.”
“Unlike the supply of F-35s to Turkey that we strongly oppose, we are less concerned about such a weapons system in Saudi Arabia if it’s part of a regional security cooperation as part of the Abraham Accords, like we have with the United Arab Emirates,” Axios quotes a second official as saying.
Today, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that operates F-35s, with at least 45 of the fighter jet in service with its air force and another 30 on order.
“It takes minutes for an F-35 to fly from Saudi Arabia to Israel,” one of the officials tells Axios, insisting that Israel requires that any Saudi F-35s not be stationed in the west of the country.
Since its introduction into service in 2016, the F-35 has faced criticism over a wide array of problems, from buggy software, to sensor fusion, unreliable engines prone to overheating, design issues that limit speed and agility in addition to maintenance difficulties.
Despite all of these issues, the purchase of the fighter jet would give Saudi Arabia a certain military edge, specifically against Iran and Turkey.
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It is important to note here, however, that the United Arab Emirates, a close ally of the kingdom, was also promised an F-35 deal in exchange for signing the Abrahamic Accords in 2020. However, the deal quickly fell apart after the signing, and Israel later denied that it was a part of the accords. Saudi Arabia will likely be more cautious.
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tell the truth _____________________ they’re running out of oil
no, not really. house of saud is zionist creation to divide and conquer and to destroy ultimately all muslims. they are followers of satan the snake. not of any islam, pure islam as they would like to claim.
and that is just for the start. next stop? india. then, thailand, and next? whole of asia and africa, and next stop would be: all colored ppl in the world.
they can afford the maintenance costs for the f-35 as they are extortionate and maintained by americans even the uk has to employ american technicians due to non disclosure of their electronics.
pirate banking systems foolishly grasp at global domination without any benevolence towards humanity. same old play book
there’s only one bank really .the others are just like trolls under other names they’re all run from one .
what a load of bollocks propagandas to deceive the world and so transparently too.
israel wants normalization ? how can a nation that is completely drunk in its own hasbara snake oil without any moral compass whatsoever, expect to be considered normal. a dystopian request.
take a look in the mirror
man, ppl used to advert and warned us.
learn .
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why do they hide their business deals why don’t we know that england made him.a royal? why don’t we know he owns x with musk .? why don’t we have transparency about their dealings with each order? why are they allowed “privacy ” when we aren’t? allegedly.and who do you think really set this up? $2,400,000,000 cartel empire exposed in new york- 171 suspects…
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and look at the suspects they’d struggle to run a delicatessen.
who started global drug trafficking? who has the experience?who ?
yes, we bloody knows that that england made him royal from the common robber from nejjed, he and hashemites first.
f35 for selling your soul to satan, hmm what a choice
how many toilet seat in tomsawyer outhouse?
usa always calls normalizing ties when it affects their freedom of movement.but us destroyed,iraq,libya,syria yugoslavia and many more because their own oil and mineral resources.
the solution is simple – buy j20s, su30s, su57s. they’re better planes. cheaper too.
the problem is the russians and chinese dont bomb you if you dont make business deals with them the west does. milosevic, ghadaffi, assad and maduro all refused to do business on us terms and prefered china or russia and got killed or are on the kill list for it.
chitheads.