Israel is not opposed to the US sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia — but is insisting Washington condition it on whether Riyadh and Jerusalem make diplomatic progress.
“We told the Trump administration that the supply of F-35s to Saudi Arabia needs to be subject to Saudi normalization with Israel,” an unnamed Israeli official told Axios.
President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May. AFP via Getty Images
Unlike the supply of F-35s to Turkey, which Israel strongly opposes, “we are less concerned about such weapons system in Saudi Arabia if its part of a regional security cooperation as part of the Abraham Accords, like we have with the United Arab Emirates,” one of the officials told the outlet.
The report comes as President T

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