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Headlines: Saudi Arabia wants American jets - and a Palestinian state · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump is offering to sell
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  Speaker 1: American F thirty five fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The
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  Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin F thirty five is a supersonic stealth strike
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  Speaker 1: fighter that can land vertically on an aircraft carrier and
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  Speaker 1: is known as the Apex Predator of air defense. It's
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  Speaker 1: all part of one trillion dollars in US Saudi deals
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  Speaker 1: announced when Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Sulman visited the
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  Speaker 1: White House. Riad wants defense guarantees, including joint training and
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  Speaker 1: a deal similar to the one America already has with
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  Speaker 1: neighboring Katar, where the US has offered to step in
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  Speaker 1: to the Qatari's defense if they're attacked. That's prompted deep
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  Speaker 1: concern from Israel, which wants to be America's closest partner
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  Speaker 1: in the region and formerly objects to Saudi Arabia obtaining
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  Speaker 1: the jets. Israel has previously blocked those jets reaching Turkey
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  Speaker 1: and the United Arab Emirates. Trump and Ben Sulman held
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  Speaker 1: a joint press call at the White House.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great Ala and Israel is a great Alay,
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  Speaker 2: and I know they'd like you to get planes of
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  Speaker 2: reduced caliber. I don't think that makes you too happy.
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  Speaker 1: In return, Trump wants Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords,
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  Speaker 1: where Middle Eastern states normalized diplomatic relations with Israel, but
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  Speaker 1: that seems a bridge too far for Ben Sulman at
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  Speaker 1: this stage. He said he wants more progress on Palestinian statehood.
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  Speaker 2: I think you have a very good feeling toward the
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  Speaker 2: Abraham acrds, just the vidic IM's the president.
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  Speaker 3: We want peaceful these readings.
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  Speaker 4: We want peace for the Pedestinians.
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  Speaker 3: We want them to co exist peaceful in the region.
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  Speaker 3: We will do our best to reach that.
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  Speaker 1: Day at the White House, a journalist asked about the
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  Speaker 1: nine eleven attacks orchestrated by Saudi Arabian terrorist Oslaoma bin
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  Speaker 1: Laden and acted out by hijackers who were also mainly Saudi.
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  Speaker 1: She also wanted to know about the murder in a
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  Speaker 1: Saudi consulate of journalist Jamal Kashoji, who was brutally slaughtered
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  Speaker 1: and dismembered allegedly by Saudi and Turkish operatives. Trump reacted
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  Speaker 1: with anger, but Ben Sulman was more measured and your
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  Speaker 1: Royal Highness.
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  Speaker 2: The US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
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  Speaker 2: of a journalist. Nine eleven families are furious that you
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  Speaker 2: are here in the.
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  Speaker 4: Overlogist who you were with?
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  Speaker 2: Who Fakeness ABC Fakeness one of the worst, one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst in the business. As far as this gentleman
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  Speaker 2: is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning somebody
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  Speaker 2: that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like
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  Speaker 2: that gentleman that you're talking about, whether you like him
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  Speaker 2: or didn't like him. Things happened, but he knew nothing
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  Speaker 2: about it, and we can leave it at that. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: You'd love to answer.
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  Speaker 4: You know a few people about you know, the families of.
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  Speaker 3: Ninety eleven in America. But you know, we have to
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  Speaker 3: focus on reality.
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  Speaker 4: Reality based in SI documents and based on a lot
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  Speaker 4: of documents that Sambladin. He used Saudi people and that
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  Speaker 4: event for one main purpose is to destroy this relation,
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  Speaker 4: to destroy the American Saudi relation. That's the purpose of
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  Speaker 4: ninety even.
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  Speaker 3: About the generals, it's really painful to hear, you know,
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  Speaker 3: anyone that's been losing his life for you know, no
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  Speaker 3: real purpose or not in a legal way, and it's
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  Speaker 3: been painful for us in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 5: We've did all the right steps of investigation, et cetera
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  Speaker 5: in Saudi Arabia, and we've improved our system to be
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  Speaker 5: sure that nothing happened like that. And it's painful and
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  Speaker 5: it's a huge mistake and we are doing our best
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  Speaker 5: that this doesn't happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Our chief International correspondent, Cameron Stewart has published a great
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  Speaker 1: analysis of the US Saudi deal that's live now at
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