UAE said to scrap meet with Israel, US envoys after Netanyahu panned F-35 deal

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/uae-said-to-scrap-meet-with-israel-us-envoys-after-netanyahu-panned-f-35-deal/

The United Arab Emirates reportedly canceled a trilateral meeting with Israel and the US last week in retaliation against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public opposition to Washington’s brewing sale of F-35 fighter jets to Abu Dhabi.

A New York meeting of the three countries’ UN envoys celebrating the normalization of Israel-UAE ties had been scheduled for Friday, the Walla news site said in a report Monday.

But in the lead-up to the gathering, Netanyahu spoke out against the US sale of advanced weaponry to the UAE, following reports that he had agreed to pull opposition to the deal in exchange for normalization.

 The Gulf state will also hold off on other high-level meetings with Israel until Netanyahu’s position is clarified, the report said.