Days after US President Trump said he was considering a deal to supply Saudi Arabia with F-35 stealth fighter jets, Israel made clear that it wants the sale to be conditional on Riyadh normalising relations with the Jewish state, two Israeli officials told Axios .

According to the report, Israel sees Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of the jets differently from other countries in the region, such as Turkey, which has sought the aircraft to strengthen its position against Israel.

“We told the Trump administration that the supply of F-35s to Saudi Arabia needs to be subject to Saudi normalisation with Israel," one Israeli official said. The source added that approving the sale without linking it to diplomatic progress would be “counterproductive."

A second official noted that, unlike Turkey,

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