{"id":125989,"date":"2025-11-19T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=125989"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:45:47","slug":"21-05-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=125989","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia \u2018should get top of the line\u2019 F-35s like Israel, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jns-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/saudi-arabia-should-get-top-of-the-line-f-35s-like-israel-trump-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saudi Arabia \u2018should get top of the line\u2019 F-35s like Israel, Trump says<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mike Wagenheim<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The U.S. president said during a meeting with the Saudi crown prince that \u201cwe\u2019re going to have a deal\u201d with Saudi Arabia for the coveted F-35 fighter jets, which could put Israel\u2019s military edge in the region at risk.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2025\/11\/584758213_122157464720723345_2160511910052115410_n-1320x880.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the South Portico of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok\/White House<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">U.S President Donald Trump said that both Israel and Saudi Arabia are \u201cgreat\u201d allies, as he confirmed that the United States would sell Riyadh F-35 fighter jets that are \u201cpretty similar\u201d to those that Israel operates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump made the comments during an Oval Office session with reporters on Tuesday alongside Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump said that Israel is aware of the arrangement, which he first announced in broader terms on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel would \u201clike you to get planes of reduced caliber,\u201d Trump told the Saudi prince, as reporters looked on. \u201cI don\u2019t think that makes you too happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, I think they are both at a level where they should get top of the line,\u201d Trump said of Jerusalem and Riyadh. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a deal. They\u2019re going to purchase F-35s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump would not confirm reports that Israel requested that Trump condition the F-35 sale to Riyadh on the kingdom normalizing diplomatic relations with Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">All Trump would say about the emerging sale to Saudi Arabia is that \u201cIsrael is aware, and they\u2019re going to be very happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Details about the potential sale of the F-35s remain scarce. Israel is the only U.S. ally in the Middle East to have access to the advanced technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bin Salman said on Tuesday that Riyadh will \u201cdefinitely help\u201d pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, though an exact figure has not yet to be finalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump said that \u201cit\u2019ll be a lot.\u201d He added that \u201cthe Palestinians are doing very well\u201d and that \u201cwe\u2019re working very closely with a lot of people that make everybody happy, including Israel, the Palestinians and everybody.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-607422 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2025\/11\/585304944_122157469730723345_6936922768978902309_n.jpg\" alt=\"White House, F-35\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>F-35 fighter jets fly over the North Side of the White House during the Official Saudi Arabia Visit, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, 2025. Credit: Andrea Hanks\/White House.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Of a path to Saudi normalization with Israel, bin Salman said that he and Trump had a \u201chealthy discussion\u201d on the subject and that Riyadh wants to join the Abraham Accords with \u201ca clear path\u201d toward a two-state solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to work on that to be sure that we can prepare the right situation as soon as possible to have that,\u201d bin Salman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump said that he didn\u2019t want to describe it as a \u201ccommitment, but we\u2019ve had a very good talk on the Abraham Accords.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe talked about one state and two state,\u201d Trump said, without explaining what he meant by \u201cone state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The U.S. president added that he and the Saudi prince would discuss the topic further and that bin Salman has \u201ca very good feeling toward the Abraham Accords.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bin Salman sounded non-committal in his remarks to reporters. \u201cWe want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want them to coexist peacefully in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump and bin Salman also said that Iran could be brought into the fold.<\/span><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-607421 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2025\/11\/585279225_122157474002723345_5695354563834547112_n.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walk along the West Colonnade of the White House to the Oval Office, in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok\/White House.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The U.S. president said that Tehran \u201cwould very much like\u2014I mean, they may say something else, but they would very much like to have a deal\u201d with the United States, after Washington\u2019s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI think we\u2019ve done a great job in wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran. Nobody else could have done that. No other president would have done it,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bin Salman said that Washington and Riyadh \u201care working closely together on that issue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe would do our best to help to reach a deal between America and Iran, and we believe it\u2019s good for Iran\u2019s future to have a good deal that would set the path for the region and the world and America,\u201d the prince said. \u201cWe will do our best to see that day happen.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-607424 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2025\/11\/586107501_122157464750723345_5698466366662964407_n.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud\" width=\"100%\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman exchange gifts in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House after a welcome ceremony at the South Portico, in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 18, 2025. Credit: Joyce N. Boghosian\/White House<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump pushed back heavily on questions to bin Salman about Saudi involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States and bin Salman\u2019s reported involvement in the brutal murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which pushed bin Salman into pariah status for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI feel painful about 9\/11 families in America, but we have to focus on reality,\u201d bin Salman said, of relatives of victims of the attacks protesting his visit. \u201cThe reality is that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people at that event for one main purpose, which is to destroy the American-Saudi relation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThat\u2019s the purpose of 9\/11,\u201d the prince said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bin Salman told reporters that \u201cit\u2019s really painful to hear about anyone who is losing his life for no real purpose,\u201d speaking about Khashoggi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We did all the right steps of investigation in Saudi Arabia,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve improved our system, and it\u2019s painful and it is a huge mistake and we are doing our best that this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump insisted on Tuesday that bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 slaying and dismemberment of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, although Trump\u2019s intelligence apparatus disputed that in his first term in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trump is slated to host bin Salman and a group of investors, entrepreneurs and celebrities at a black tie dinner at the White House on Tuesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia \u2018should get top of the line\u2019 F-35s like Israel, Trump says Mike Wagenheim The U.S. president said during a meeting with the Saudi crown prince that \u201cwe\u2019re going to have a deal\u201d with Saudi Arabia for the coveted F-35 fighter jets, which could put Israel\u2019s military edge in the region at risk. 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