Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said Israel opposes the sale of “even one screw” of the F-35 fighter jet to any country in the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates, amid apparent plans by the United States to sell the plane to Abu Dhabi.last week, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported that the US planned to sell the fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter jet to the UAE as part of a recently announced normalization agreement between Israel and the UAE. Netanyahu quickly denied the report as fake news, though US President Donald Trump and other senior American officials later confirmed that Washington was indeed considering selling the aircraft to the UAE. Commenting on this, Likud Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said that “We oppose the sale of even one screw of one plane of the stealth fighters to any country in the Middle East if we have peace with them or not. That’s our position, and it has been presented in the past and has been clarified in recent weeks.” To check the news, click here.