Saddam Hussein
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Yes, but those type of rockets are ICBM type which are useless against Israel. Why would Israel be worried about Arabs without nukes? They have nukes, we don't. Don't you think an agreement could be signed where there are promises to not weaponize the carrier rockets. If this could work, TOT from Ukraine for carrier rockets would be the quickest solution.
No not ICBM, ballistic missiles can have many ranges including short and medium range. The difference between ballistic and cruise is the method of flight and speed. Agreements are pieces of paper, in the end we remain Arabs, Muslims whom are hostile to Israel in the core. Regimes can fall and alliances can change. If an Arab state develops ballistic missiles it develops capability to deliver a warhead to Israel at a high speed with its own technology, Saddam went this route whilst having a nuclear reactor which made the Israelis worry and take action. Israel is small, who needs nukes to cause it major damage.
My whole point is that having a space industry is highly linked to the development of rockets, which the west will never want Arab or Muslim states to produce as these can clearly be militarized as Iran has done. The other parts that come with space industry for the development of satellites are not aerospace engineering fields. They are IT, telecommunications, electrical engineering etc. You can't stop a nation from educating itself highly in IT to produce capable programmers, hackers. It's hard to measure or even notice unless publicly stated and even then how do you stop it? Rocket/Missile development programs however are a different story, they require testing and will be noticed.
The west will not let 'us' (Arabs) develop in the way you want, they will always try to keep us under them and that should not be accepted. As soon as you try to develop ballistic missiles or space rockets they will not remain silent. The GCC is wealthy and all that, but the US is not going to let them do these things. I'm sure someone will respond to me with some link of ToT and all that but they know what is being transferred, they know the limits and they're no idiots. ToT simply means transfer of the required entities to produce locally, it does not mean transfer of actual knowledge to further develop, that cannot be transferred just like that.