With much fanfare, President Donald Trump announced this week that he and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had signed a new Strategic Defense Agreement that would include the sale of stealth F-35 fighters to that country, but very few details have emerged about the agreement and what impacts it might have for the Middle East.

Despite announcing sweeping security, investment and defense agreements, the fate of a Saudi-Israel normalization deal remains uncertain

The Prime Minister's spokesperson responded that the US and Israel have a longstanding understanding that Israel must maintain the qualitative edge when it comes to its defense

The pageantry on the South Lawn this week—military bands, rows of American and Saudi flags, and the first White House visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) under the new Trump administration—masked a conversation far more consequential than another set of arms negotiations.

Arab states calls Netanyahu’s tour ‘blatant violation’ of Syria’s sovereignty, urges urgent international action to enforce UN resolutions - Anadolu Ajansı

President Donald Trump has now publicly confirmed that the United States will move ahead with a sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, locking in one of the most consequential arms deals of his presidency.