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How a Saudi F-35 deal could impinge on Israel’s strategic edge
“If we can't prevent the sale, we might as well link it to normalization and get something out of it,” says analyst Yosef Kuperwasser.
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to move forward with an agreement to supply Saudi Arabia with advanced F-35 stealth warplanes.
“We’ll be selling,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. “They wanna buy a lot of jets, I’m looking at that. They’ve asked me to look at it. They want to buy a lot of ’35s, but they want to buy actually more than that, fighter jets,” Trump added.
Despite Trump’s assurances, the proposed sale, which includes 48 aircraft, is awaiting internal U.S. government clearance before advancing to a full interagency review.
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