UAE cancels trilateral meeting after slap form Israel

The American Axios website reported that the ruling regime in the UAE decided to cancel a trilateral meeting with Israel and the United States after receiving a slap from the Israeli government as it refused to sell F35 aircraft to Abu Dhabi.

This came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the normalization agreement with the UAE is not linked to acceptance of the agreement to arm it, indicating that this agreement opens a new era in the region.

In a press conference he held with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu stressed that normalization is not linked to acceptance of the UAE armament agreement, stressing that Washington promised to guarantee Israel’s supremacy.

For his part, Secretary Pompeo said that Washington is committed to preserving the Israeli military superiority in the region, indicating that Iran will not obtain a nuclear weapon and that his countries’ administration will seek all means to ensure this.

Pompeo had held talks with Netanyahu in Israel, which he arrived today at the start of a tour that includes the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, and aims to expand the circle of normalizing relations between Tel Aviv and Arab countries after the Emirates, in addition to discussing the Iranian file.

The Yediot Aharonot newspaper website stated that Pompeo would change his visit program and decide to take off directly from Tel Aviv to Khartoum to reinforce the manifestations of normalization between Israel and Arab countries. He expressed his “hope” for the normalization of their relations with Tel Aviv.

Israeli sources indicated that the US administration was in contact to arrange a meeting between Netanyahu and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, before signing an agreement to normalize relations between their countries in Washington next month.