The F-35 Tempest in a Teapot
What’s the current fuss about?
August 28, 2020
The F-35 Tempest in a Teapot
What’s the current fuss about?
In the past few days news stories have emerged that the U.S. plans to sell the F-35 fighter jet—its most advanced military aircraft—to the United Arab Emirates and that Benjamin Netanyahu has objected to the sale. Less reliable reports have suggested that the White House had promised the jets to the UAE as an inducement to make peace with Israel, or that the deal between Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem is now somehow in jeopardy. In Israel, some pundits are even claiming that the sale undermines the Jewish state’s “qualitative military edge” over its Middle Eastern neighbors, which Washington has promised to help it maintain. Ariel Kahana argues that this supposed controversy, in fact, amounts to little:
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