Adding to US arms sales-related talk about the Israel-UAE peace, signs are that the deal was meant to lead to US sales of F-35 jets to the UAE. Israel, however, is warning against that, saying they oppose such sales.
The UAE is bristling at the opposition for a few reasons. They just got done with normalization with Israel, and this hardly seems like Israel acting normal with someone they’re on good terms with. It’s also weird that Israel feels entitled to tell the US which nations they can and can’t sell to.
All indications are that there was a ‘secret clause’ in the deal, which entitled the UAE to buy F-35s and certain drones from the US without objection. This was a condition insisted by the UAE crown prince, and said Israel would no longer object.
That Israel is still objecting could be a problem with the deal, though it remains to be seen if the US will still sell to the UAE, in keeping with the secret clause, or if they will continue with the historical trend of letting Israel dictate who can buy what.
While Trump is keen to spin this as a pro-Israel move, he’s also a big fan of selling arms to the UAE, and that makes this a potentially difficult decision for him to make.
So much for the Israeli-UAE peace deal. UAE is hence not an equal partner in crime but a mere conquered obstacle in USraeli designs for the region thrown out of the way. Humiliation, no benefits.
It serves the UAE right. They dumped their commitment to the Palestinians to curry favour with Israel and The US and they have ended up with nothing.
The rest of the Arab world will not trust them and their new friends have DUMPED them.
The UAE was already doing all the same things as an open secret. It was the most openly cheating on the Arab Peace Deal commitments, and had been for many years.
“It’s also weird that Israel feels entitled to tell the US which nations they can and can’t sell to.”
Seems to be the norm. In the late 1970s or early 1980s I saw Menachem Beginsaying on TV that Israel would not “allow” the US to sell the AWACS to Saudi Arabia.
The tail has been wagging the dog for a long time now.
Also the tactic of signing peace agreements and then announcing that they reserve the right not to honor this or that article. Classic stuff, it began here with Indian treaties, then the Brits got a taste, the Confederates, nso on thru Kissinger, both Bushies,
Clinton, and Trump. The Zionists got their gangster gov’t to heart straight from the fountainhead.
Since the UAE will be using their own money, not ours, to buy F35s, we should tell Israel, the grifter nation, to pound sand.
Ain’t gonna happen. Israel’s friends run things here. Good example: The Dems condemned one of their own delegates for supporting BDS but have said nothing about BLM looting, arson, rioting, etc.
“but have said nothing that I would care to hear about BLM looting etc.” fixed….
Of course Israel cheats. It cheats on every deal, and demands the US do the same. As with the Iran deal.
But we are so willing that it makes you think we’d do it with no outside urging.
So much for a peace deal.
https://indianpunchline.com/israel-uae-deal-doesnt-herald-a-geopolitical-formation/
This affair highlights once again that one needs to know the secret clauses to fully understand new pacts between nations.
When in 1917/18 the Bolsheviks took the British and French embassies in Petrograd they stumbled on a load of secret clauses, some of which, such as the Balfour Declaration, had been known all along.