Well, this’ll piss off the world’s Jew-haters, and thrill the conspiracy theorists, who will now be shouting, “Toldja! Toldja!” Israel is back on the new U.S. jet project.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met Friday evening in the Pentagon with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The meeting was intended to symbolize the end of the “Chinese Crisis” and the return of the defense relationship between the countries
to its previous condition through bilateral cooperation, including a resuming of Israel’s involvement in the JSF future combat aircraft project.“All the controversial issues have been removed. Israel continues to take part in the project as an evaluated participant, and the U.S. has repeated its commitment to sell the aircraft to Israel,” Mofaz told Israeli reporters at the end of the meeting.
Actually, this is a very good thing. Israel needs to be able to sell technology, and Israeli technology is as good as America’s.
In some areas, Israeli technology is better than America’s.
The Pentagon just announced that an Israeli firm will be supplying advanced helmet-mounted electro-optical targetting systems for use in Air Force and Navy fighter planes.
I hope my concerns are groundless, but this is not the first time that Israeli officials have declared that they have patched up their problems with the Pentagon. Your optimism may be premature.
You know, Ben, someday, you’re going to put a comment on one of my posts that does not boil down to “Meryl, you’re wrong.”
On that day, I will keel over in shock.