Posted on 07/30/2015 12:10:53 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, called the Middle East’s Sunni Arab nations “Israel’s allies.”
Gold used the term twice in a presentation Wednesday in New York focused on the shortcomings of the Iran nuclear deal.
“What we have is a regime on a roll that is trying to conquer the Middle East,” Gold said of Iran, “and it’s not Israel talking, that is our Sunni Arab neighbors — and you know what? I’ll use another expression – that is our Sunni Arab allies talking.”
Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a longtime adviser to Israeli prime ministers from the right-wing Likud Party, is also the author of a 2003 book on Saudi Arabia called “Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism.” Saudi Arabia has been one of the most vocal Arab opponents of U.S.-Iran rapprochement and the Iran nuclear agreement.
The presentation, which was organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, also featured Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence who now heads Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. Yadlin ran unsuccessfully for the Knesset in March on the center-left Zionist Union list.
Both Yadlin and Gold warned of the perils of the Iran nuclear agreement. Gold called Iran a major force of instability in the Middle East, and Yadlin said that while the deal gets a B+/A- on its short-term accomplishments of rolling back and freezing Iran’s nuclear program, it’s a “disaster” when it comes to the long-term implications of where it leaves Iran in 15 years. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Strange bedfellows these days.
The Sunni Arab coalition plus Israel, against Iran.....and the United States.
This is where we are, people. Strange indeed.
Well, the Sunni’s actually have no choice. Their former benefactor, the US, has switched sides. They need to ally, quickly, with a superpower. Barring that a regional superpower with nuclear arms will do, even if it’s Israel.
You can throw in what all the other Arabs actually think of the Palestinians and the psychological switch to an alliance of convenience with the Jewish state isn’t all that difficult. The Palestinians have for four generations been an unwelcome irritation for their main hosts, the Jordanians, Egyptians, and Lebanese, and unloved middle management and professionals (doctors and nurses, for example) in all the Arab countries. Easy to replace with South Asian and North African Muslims and totally expendable if or when the time came. They’re lighter skinned, better educated, better off (but not rich), and more clever than the locals, and the objects of envy to the poorer classes. So when a resurgent Shia Persia and their fifth columns present an existential threat turning to the only real super power in the region becomes a no brainer.
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(Note that the Caliphate has already destroy Mecca once and burned the Kaaba.)
Islamic State (ISIS): “If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba”
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