Some intrigue around the Israel-UAE peace deal.
Apparently part of the deal might have been for the US to sell F35 stealth bombers to UAE. The US was planning to retire these barely used /useful suckers, but for $100M a piece will sell them to UAE. A real fancy toy for oil sheikhs. And regionally impressive weapons of war.
Netanyahu pretending(?) he knew nothing about this; his coalition partner Gantz angry he really knew nothing about this. Netanyahu likely to publicly oppose such sale, while privately letting the US & UAE know it's fine.
Sec of Defense Mark Esper used to run Lockheed Martin's F-35 program.
So he turns a program that was going to be scrapped into one that will generate tens of millions of dollars of profit. Nice save.
Otherwise, the UAE claims that Israel agreed not to annex WB territory, while Israel says it only agreed to a temporary halt. Someone is lying to obtain cover so that their citizens don't get upset.