Earlier, you talked about Israel. Indeed, Israel is not part of the nine countries who signed the MOU. I was surprised to find out that Israel proceeded with the purchase of 20 F-35 aircraft. The Israeli Defence Minister, Mr. Ehud Barak, said that he'd been assured that there would be $4 billion in economic spin-offs. The cost of these 20 aircraft is $3 billion.
Doesn't that clearly demonstrate that we would have been better off not being part of the MOU, and negotiate ourselves in order to get the economic spin-offs? Israel seems to have obtained some advantage here.