Despite reports that Israel has refused to allow the United States to sell arms to the princesses, this does not mean that it will not receive advanced aircraft from the Americans in the future.
Israeli Air Force F-35s, in 2017
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Archive - IDF Spokesman
Barak Ravid's news yesterday in the Walla, like the Prime Minister's Office's denial about the sale of the F-35 to the United Arab Emirates, are closing the door on Yedioth Ahronoth's scope, according to which under the peace agreement the Gulf princess near Iran's soft belly will purchase the advanced plane. Moshe (Boogie) Ya'alon already sees the threat in the form of submarines in the shape of zeppelins hovering at an altitude of 50,000 feet and diving over Tel Aviv.
This is not to say that the UAE will not receive advanced aircraft from the United States down the road. This has always been the case under the alliances and peace agreements that Israel and the United States have signed with Arab countries. Saudi Arabia, even without peace with Israel, has received the Aivax, the most advanced intelligence aircraft - in contrast to Israel's position, which is always recorded in the protocol. Egypt received after the peace agreement 16-F aircraft, and control and intelligence aircraft Aivax and advanced Abrahams tanks. Their army was upgraded and became a threat to Israel.
• Prime Minister's Office: The agreement with the United Arab Emirates - does not include an agreement for an arms deal with the United States
• White House: "Peace agreement with the Emirates visible to all"
• Netanyahu: "The effort against Tehran brought Arab countries closer to us"
I would refer to Yedioth Ahronoth publications as to the reactions of Erdogan and his friends, who denounce the peace agreement. If the Ynet news presenter is angry and looks like he is about to file a complaint against Netanyahu in The Hague tribunal, and if Yedioth's senior commentators present the agreement to the reader as the prime minister's betrayal and folding, it is a sign that some hostile power is not involved in the process.
The Prime Minister marks his speech in early March 2015 at the US Congress as a very important starting point on the long road to breaking the great political conception that guided senior officers, diplomats, foreign ministries and professors: a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and cheers for the nuclear deal.
While senior reporters spread their stories about Netanyahu's single outing to Washington, Yedioth Ahronoth had a scoop on a completely different topic: a document revealing that Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with widespread concessions. Did President Barack Obama's White House exploit his allies in the press within Israel to harm the rebellious prime minister who rebelled against the West, which decided on a conciliatory move toward Iran?
And with regard to the compartmentalization issue of Ganz and Ashkenazi, which Netanyahu spoke about with an open heart and a willing mind in an interview with this newspaper, this is a natural move in the circumstances of sensitive policy initiatives. To a large extent there is an improvement here. If in the past Shimon Peres and his deputies ousted Prime Minister Rabin at the beginning of the Oslo process, and before that Foreign Minister Peres ousted Yitzhak Shamir regarding a program of the London Initiative in 1987, then it is not terrible that for a change the prime minister acts in secret. What is less natural is that Netanyahu seems to enjoy taking on an issue on which there is broad agreement, and provoking unrest around it. If the news that Sudan is next in line is true, it greatly increases the achievement. Education Minister Galant will have to start teaching the children of Israel geography again.
It is worth remembering that with so much strategy we tend to forget the tactics; That is, the burning and smoking reality at eye level in the South.