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12-Oct-13 World View -- Israel and Saudi Arabia furious over talk of U.S.-Russia-Iran deal on Syria

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12-Oct-13 World View -- Israel and Saudi Arabia furious over talk of U.S.-Russia-Iran deal on Syria

Saudi Arabia and Israel look for solutions

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Israel and Saudi Arabia furious over talk of U.S.-Russia-Iran deal on Syria
Saudi Arabia and Israel look for solutions
The Mideast perspective

Israel and Saudi Arabia furious over talk of U.S.-Russia-Iran deal on Syria

President Obama and Saudi King Abdullah in friendlier days

President Obama and Saudi King Abdullah in friendlier days

There's been a flurry of "diplomacy peace moves" recently: President Obama having a phone call with Iran's president Hassan Rouhani; Secretary of State John Kerry congratulating Russia on having a positive, cooperative approach to Syria; Kerry saying he's "very pleased" with Syria's positive, cooperative approach to the chemical weapons inspectors.

It's hard to know what to make of all this. Russia's president Vladimir Putin has repeatedly shown contempt for President Obama, and it was just a few weeks ago that Obama snubbed Putin at the G-20 meeting because Russia is harboring American traitor Edward Snowden. Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has been and continues to be a genocidal murderer using heavy weapons supplied by Russia to kill huge numbers of innocent Syrian civilians, and it was just a few weeks ago that President Obama was talking about "red lines" and threatening military action because of al-Assad's horrific use of chemical weapons on civilians on August 21. Kerry's "very pleased" remark came about in response to a piece of paper listing Syria's chemical weapons, and few people doubt that al-Assad will keep hidden a percentage of his chemical weapons from the U.N. inspectors.

So we have an endless series of Obama flip-flops, exuding obeisance to one foreign leader after another who has nothing but contempt for America and President Obama. Unfortunately, Obama has no clue what's going on in the world, has no clue what he's doing, and has no clue what he's going to do next. As usual, the fawning, sycophantic mainstream media have nothing but praise for Obama and Kerry, despite the constantly changing and flip-flopping foreign policy du jour. Jerusalem Post and Al-Hayat

Saudi Arabia and Israel look for solutions

One group of people who are definitely not fawning and sycophantic are the leaders of Saudi Arabia, who once considered America to be their ally. Saudi's leaders are already upset that Obama threw Egypt's leader Hosni Mubarak under the bus at the start of the Egyptian revolution. And now, Obama is siding with Iran and al-Assad, Shia Muslim leaders who are responsible for the massacre of many innocent Sunni Muslims, including many women and children, and for millions of refugees. Furthermore, Saudi leaders are upset that Obama is siding with Iran, in view of the latter's activities in funding Shia insurgencies in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. Finally, Saudi intelligence has obtained from al-Assad military sources a long list of chemical weapons and chemical weapons sites that are being withheld by al-Assad from the international inspectors, making the entire U.S.-Russian deal on inspections a farce.

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given up any hope that President Obama will do anything to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Although Israel and America are still close allies, the personal animosity and distrust between Netanyahu and Obama are extremely high. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are equally concerned about the consequences of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, and they are considering cooperation in facing a nuclear-capable Iran. Reuters and Debka

The Mideast perspective

To put all the above in perspective, this is a good time to summarize the numerous generational analyses I've posted in the past:

It's quite possible that the civil war in Syria will end. Russia and al-Assad will take all the credit, but as I've written many times, Syria is in a generational Awakening era, and this war would have fizzled long ago, if it weren't for the fact that al-Assad is a genocidal maniac being given an unlimited supply of heavy weapons by Russia. Even so, the pressures to end a civil war in a generational Awakening era are enormous, and it's possible that some kind of peace deal is going to arrive in the next few weeks.

If al-Assad and Russia had stopped pursuing genocidal policies two years ago, then the war would have fizzled, and it's possible that Syria could return to its pre-war "normal." However, the long delay, and the repeated slaughter, torture and massacre of innocent Sunni civilians in Syria has electrified the entire region, inflaming the Sunni-Shia fault line, and Sunni jihadists from places as far away as Pakistan, Algeria, and Chechnya have been arriving in Syria to fight the al-Assad regime. On top of all those factors, over 2.1 million Syrian refugees have poured into neighboring countries, destabilizing those economies.

Iran is determined to build a nuclear weapon, but they have no intention of using it on Israel. However, they may have plans to use it on Saudi Arabia.

When the Clash of Civilizations world war begins, the "allies" will be the United States, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Iran, Israel, Russia and others, while their opponents will be China, Cambodia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the other Sunni states, and others.

(Comments: For reader comments, questions and discussion, see the 12-Oct-13 World View -- Israel and Saudi Arabia furious over talk of U.S.-Russia-Iran deal on Syria thread of the Generational Dynamics forum. Comments may be posted anonymously.) (12-Oct-2013) Permanent Link
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