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To have Israel seeking an arrangement with gulf states, notably Saudi Arabia, really drives home the point that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Even in the best of times counting on others to be instrumental in defending your very existence does not make you feel as secure as you'd like to be.

Israel sees how the global political alignment has tilted against it, has had to come to grips with the new reality and look for ways to secure itself in ways thought untenable until now.

I've often heard in anecdotal reference regarding the extent in which Sunni and Sh'ite consider each other to be a religious status worse than that of Jews, one in which is emphatically proven to be the case with the alignment of the strangest sort of bedfellows that boggle the geopolitical mind, that puts Israel and the unlikeliest sort of cohabitants namely the terror funding tribe that is the House of Saud, in pragmatic opportunism against a common foe.

1 posted on 10/04/2013 11:03:21 AM PDT by lbryce
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To have Israel seeking an arrangement with gulf states, notably Saudi Arabia, really drives home the point that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The gulf royals are the moderate Muslims Bush keeps talking about. The problem is that their populations are not anywhere near as moderate. And any deviations from religious orthodoxy on the part of the royals could lead to assassination attempts or even coups. The Shah's attempt to secularize the country led to the Iranian revolution. Unfortunately, inside every Muslim isn't an American struggling to get out.

2 posted on 10/04/2013 11:13:45 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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Too bad Israel doesn’t have a friend in the White House, or they wouldn’t have to go looking for assurances form these scum.


3 posted on 10/04/2013 11:46:50 AM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot
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If you check my posts over the past several years you will note I told of the secret war room Wherein the IDF and the GCC and USA forces have been planning.

This piece indicates the meetings have been on going for years.


9 posted on 10/04/2013 5:16:16 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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