MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUND : Why F-35s Should Not Be Released to the UAE and Saudi Arabia

By Shimon Arad, September 3, 2020 – BESA CENTER – ISRAEL

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The normalization of Israeli-UAE relations will have significant strategic and political ramifications for the Middle East as a whole and Israel in particular. However, Israel’s regional standing relies quintessentially on the perception of its technological and military superiority and not on the fluid nature of reversible political agreements. In the Middle East, peace treaties—as the Egyptian and Jordanian examples show—need to be protected through security arrangements that discourage their violation rather than through the provision of military capabilities that may one day, under a change of leadership and intent, encourage a challenge to Israel.

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