29-May-11 News -- Israel and Saudi Arabia form an 'alliance of necessity' against Iran
Reasons for a strategic Israeli-Saudi alliance
** 29-May-11 News -- Israel and Saudi Arabia form an 'alliance of necessity' against Iran
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... b#e110529b
** 29-May-11 World View -- New Fatah-Hamas crisis
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 29#e110529
Contents:
"Israel and Saudi Arabia form an 'alliance of necessity' against Iran"
"Reasons for a strategic Israeli-Saudi alliance"
### World View - New Fatah-Hamas crisis
"New crisis on the road to Fatah-Hamas reconciliation"
"Rafah border crossing opens between Gaza and Egypt"
"Greece's hopes of averting default dim further"
"UK denies that it's in secret talks to end Libya fighting"
"Hackers steal sensitive data military contractors' networks"
Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Saudi Arabia, Israel
Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Fatah, Hamas, Gaza, Egypt, Rafah crossing,
Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Lockheed Martin, cyber war
29-May-11 News -- Israel and Saudi Arabia form alliance
Re: 29-May-11 News -- Israel and Saudi Arabia form alliance
A new article in Iran's state-run news service, PressTv, quotes me from this article:
Saudi Arabia: emerging replicate of Israel
Sat Oct 1, 2011 3:37PM
By Kourosh Ziabari
Saudi Arabia's interference in the internal affairs of Yemen and
Bahrain and its deployment of military troops in these countries to
help quell the peaceful anti-government protests bring to mind the
atrocious and brutal policies and actions of the Israeli regime in the
Middle East.
On March 15, Aljazeera reported that "hundreds of Saudi troops have
entered Bahrain to help protect government facilities there amid
escalating protests against the government." The same day, Reuters
published video footages of Saudi troops entering Bahrain in armored
vehicles.
According to the media reports, Saudi troops entered Bahrain following
the appeal of the tiny Persian Gulf country to its Arab allies to come
to its help for silencing the angry protesters who were for days
holding massive rallies in different cities and calling for the
dissolution of the Al Khalifa regime and the establishment of a
democratic government.
The arrival of Saudi and Emirati troops in Bahrain, who were supposed
to put down the igniting flames of revolution, was responded by the
indignation of the people that were steadfast in their position and
were not willing to surrender in the face of the government's policy
of provocation and intimidation.
According to an unnamed Saudi official, 1,000 Saudi Arabian troops
were dispatched to Bahrain. This comes while the other strategic ally
of Bahrain, the UAE, sent 500 police officers to the country. On March
14, "witnesses told the Reuters news agency that about 150 Saudi
Arabian armored troop carriers plus other vehicles [have] entered
Bahrain on the causeway that links the two kingdoms."
A few days after the Saudi forces entered Bahrain, the major Shiite
opposition group Al-Wefaq described the move as a declaration of war
and occupation. Actually, they were right. Saudi Arabia's deployment
of troops in Bahrain was not something which could be consigned to
oblivion. The opposition groups in Bahrain were angry because the
territorial integrity of their country was violated, and this was a
practice that the Israeli regime had propagated in the region.
From every aspect, Saudi Arabia's interference in Bahrain and its
complicity with the government in its bloody crackdown on the
protesters who demanded social, political and religious reforms in the
structure of the government seems to be inexcusable and beyond the
pale. Like the rest of Arab nations, Bahraini people for long have
faced discrimination, social and economic inequalities and
suppression. The Shiites constitute some 70% of Bahrain's population,
but they are not allowed to serve in sensitive governmental posts,
even in the police office. They are also deprived of their most
essential rights. Amnesty International and other human rights groups
have frequently decried and condemned the deplorable situation of
Shiite prisoners, who are irresponsibly tortured and even killed in
the Al Khalifa jails.
Saudi Arabia's support for such a government that denies its own
citizen their most fundamental rights portrays a hateful and
detestable image of Saudi Arabia in the eyes of Bahraini people and
other nations in the region and can be reminiscent of the actions of
Israeli regime which for more than 6 decades has suppressed the
defenseless and subjugated nation of Palestine.
However, there is more than a similarity in actions and policies
linking Saudi Arabia to Israel. Despite a lack of official relations,
these two repressive regimes have maintained underground ties for so
long and assisted each other in strategic affairs. One of their points
of agreement is Iran. According to a July 5, 2009 report published by
Sunday Times, "the head of Mossad, Israel's overseas intelligence
service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that
Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the
kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear sites."
"Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad's director since 2002, held
secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility. The
Israeli press has already carried unconfirmed reports that
high-ranking officials, including Ehud Olmert, the former prime
minister, held meetings with Saudi colleagues," the report added.
An official told Sunday Times that if Israel would quietly perform the
operation, Saudi Arabia would not object to the flyover. Notably,
former US Ambassador to the United Nations and advocate of a strike on
Iran John Bolton said, "None of them would say anything about it
publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an over-flight if the
Israelis didn't trumpet it as a big success."
Over the past years, the Saudi Arabian regime took steps toward
renormalizing its ties with Israel. The Saudi's advocacy of the
so-called Middle East peace process by which the Palestinian Authority
will be forced to officially recognize the state of Israel indicates
the willingness of Al Saud to come closer to Israel and put an end to
the apparent hostility between the two sides.
Actually, the Saudi Arabian officials have never hesitated to make
known their partnership with the Israeli regime, despite their claims
that they don't recognize Tel Aviv and have preconditions, including
an assurance by the Israelis that the Palestinian refugees would be
allowed to return to their homeland, for sitting at the negotiation
table with the Israeli officials; however, the fact is that Saudi
Arabia has never been genuinely concerned about the cause of the
Palestinian people and even betrayed them on various occasions.
In February 2010, the Arab media published a photo of Israeli Deputy
Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon shaking hands with former Saudi
Intelligence Chief Turki al-Faisal in the sidelines of a security
meeting in Munich. Marc Lynch of the "Foreign Policy" analyzed this
handshake an interest maneuver.
"While it might not seem like much, the picture of the handshake has
rocketed through Arab politics and has become the focal point for an
unusually blunt public discourse on the well-known reality of official
Arab ties to Israel," wrote Lynch.
"The way the story is playing out is an object lesson in the power of
publicity in Arab politics and in the limits of the much-mooted new
"alliance" between Arabs and Israel against Iran. It shows both that
many Arab leaders are indeed perfectly willing to work with the
Israelis," he added.
In an analysis of the relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel,
the American political analyst John J. Xenakis
quoted "Debka" subscriber-only newsletter as writing that "Saudi
Arabia and Israel have been cooperating quietly on issues of shared
interest for three years starting in the days of Netanyahu's
predecessor, Ehud Olmert. But the basis of understanding has broadened
and strengthened in the four months since the fall of Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and the falling-out between Abdullah and
President Barack Obama over the latter's Middle East policy."
He added that Israelis and Saudis are not afraid of publicizing their
clandestine ties, "When the Israeli prime minister met Obama at the
White House Friday, May 20, he made no secret of the relationship he
had set in motion with Riyadh. Netanyahu let it be understood that his
own Palestinian steps had been coordinated with the Saudis and through
them with the GCC Gulf emirates and Jordan's King Abdullah II."
Anyway, the reality is that Saudi Arabia is following in the Israeli
footsteps and has no constraint in letting the world know that it can
betray the Palestinian nation, cooperate with Tel Aviv in its ominous
plots against Iran and help with the autocratic regimes of the Persian
Gulf in repressing their own people. This is why we can think about
the fact that Saudi Arabia is an emerging Israel in the Middle East.
KZ/PKH
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202176.html
Saudi Arabia: emerging replicate of Israel
Sat Oct 1, 2011 3:37PM
By Kourosh Ziabari
Saudi Arabia's interference in the internal affairs of Yemen and
Bahrain and its deployment of military troops in these countries to
help quell the peaceful anti-government protests bring to mind the
atrocious and brutal policies and actions of the Israeli regime in the
Middle East.
On March 15, Aljazeera reported that "hundreds of Saudi troops have
entered Bahrain to help protect government facilities there amid
escalating protests against the government." The same day, Reuters
published video footages of Saudi troops entering Bahrain in armored
vehicles.
According to the media reports, Saudi troops entered Bahrain following
the appeal of the tiny Persian Gulf country to its Arab allies to come
to its help for silencing the angry protesters who were for days
holding massive rallies in different cities and calling for the
dissolution of the Al Khalifa regime and the establishment of a
democratic government.
The arrival of Saudi and Emirati troops in Bahrain, who were supposed
to put down the igniting flames of revolution, was responded by the
indignation of the people that were steadfast in their position and
were not willing to surrender in the face of the government's policy
of provocation and intimidation.
According to an unnamed Saudi official, 1,000 Saudi Arabian troops
were dispatched to Bahrain. This comes while the other strategic ally
of Bahrain, the UAE, sent 500 police officers to the country. On March
14, "witnesses told the Reuters news agency that about 150 Saudi
Arabian armored troop carriers plus other vehicles [have] entered
Bahrain on the causeway that links the two kingdoms."
A few days after the Saudi forces entered Bahrain, the major Shiite
opposition group Al-Wefaq described the move as a declaration of war
and occupation. Actually, they were right. Saudi Arabia's deployment
of troops in Bahrain was not something which could be consigned to
oblivion. The opposition groups in Bahrain were angry because the
territorial integrity of their country was violated, and this was a
practice that the Israeli regime had propagated in the region.
From every aspect, Saudi Arabia's interference in Bahrain and its
complicity with the government in its bloody crackdown on the
protesters who demanded social, political and religious reforms in the
structure of the government seems to be inexcusable and beyond the
pale. Like the rest of Arab nations, Bahraini people for long have
faced discrimination, social and economic inequalities and
suppression. The Shiites constitute some 70% of Bahrain's population,
but they are not allowed to serve in sensitive governmental posts,
even in the police office. They are also deprived of their most
essential rights. Amnesty International and other human rights groups
have frequently decried and condemned the deplorable situation of
Shiite prisoners, who are irresponsibly tortured and even killed in
the Al Khalifa jails.
Saudi Arabia's support for such a government that denies its own
citizen their most fundamental rights portrays a hateful and
detestable image of Saudi Arabia in the eyes of Bahraini people and
other nations in the region and can be reminiscent of the actions of
Israeli regime which for more than 6 decades has suppressed the
defenseless and subjugated nation of Palestine.
However, there is more than a similarity in actions and policies
linking Saudi Arabia to Israel. Despite a lack of official relations,
these two repressive regimes have maintained underground ties for so
long and assisted each other in strategic affairs. One of their points
of agreement is Iran. According to a July 5, 2009 report published by
Sunday Times, "the head of Mossad, Israel's overseas intelligence
service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that
Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the
kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear sites."
"Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad's director since 2002, held
secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility. The
Israeli press has already carried unconfirmed reports that
high-ranking officials, including Ehud Olmert, the former prime
minister, held meetings with Saudi colleagues," the report added.
An official told Sunday Times that if Israel would quietly perform the
operation, Saudi Arabia would not object to the flyover. Notably,
former US Ambassador to the United Nations and advocate of a strike on
Iran John Bolton said, "None of them would say anything about it
publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an over-flight if the
Israelis didn't trumpet it as a big success."
Over the past years, the Saudi Arabian regime took steps toward
renormalizing its ties with Israel. The Saudi's advocacy of the
so-called Middle East peace process by which the Palestinian Authority
will be forced to officially recognize the state of Israel indicates
the willingness of Al Saud to come closer to Israel and put an end to
the apparent hostility between the two sides.
Actually, the Saudi Arabian officials have never hesitated to make
known their partnership with the Israeli regime, despite their claims
that they don't recognize Tel Aviv and have preconditions, including
an assurance by the Israelis that the Palestinian refugees would be
allowed to return to their homeland, for sitting at the negotiation
table with the Israeli officials; however, the fact is that Saudi
Arabia has never been genuinely concerned about the cause of the
Palestinian people and even betrayed them on various occasions.
In February 2010, the Arab media published a photo of Israeli Deputy
Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon shaking hands with former Saudi
Intelligence Chief Turki al-Faisal in the sidelines of a security
meeting in Munich. Marc Lynch of the "Foreign Policy" analyzed this
handshake an interest maneuver.
"While it might not seem like much, the picture of the handshake has
rocketed through Arab politics and has become the focal point for an
unusually blunt public discourse on the well-known reality of official
Arab ties to Israel," wrote Lynch.
"The way the story is playing out is an object lesson in the power of
publicity in Arab politics and in the limits of the much-mooted new
"alliance" between Arabs and Israel against Iran. It shows both that
many Arab leaders are indeed perfectly willing to work with the
Israelis," he added.
In an analysis of the relationships between Saudi Arabia and Israel,
the American political analyst John J. Xenakis
quoted "Debka" subscriber-only newsletter as writing that "Saudi
Arabia and Israel have been cooperating quietly on issues of shared
interest for three years starting in the days of Netanyahu's
predecessor, Ehud Olmert. But the basis of understanding has broadened
and strengthened in the four months since the fall of Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and the falling-out between Abdullah and
President Barack Obama over the latter's Middle East policy."
He added that Israelis and Saudis are not afraid of publicizing their
clandestine ties, "When the Israeli prime minister met Obama at the
White House Friday, May 20, he made no secret of the relationship he
had set in motion with Riyadh. Netanyahu let it be understood that his
own Palestinian steps had been coordinated with the Saudis and through
them with the GCC Gulf emirates and Jordan's King Abdullah II."
Anyway, the reality is that Saudi Arabia is following in the Israeli
footsteps and has no constraint in letting the world know that it can
betray the Palestinian nation, cooperate with Tel Aviv in its ominous
plots against Iran and help with the autocratic regimes of the Persian
Gulf in repressing their own people. This is why we can think about
the fact that Saudi Arabia is an emerging Israel in the Middle East.
KZ/PKH
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202176.html
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