Hmmm...interesting. The lower half of the article, apparently unrelated to the title, makes it appear as though the Saudi pilot was going to attack becuase of the fence, not because of all the Irlamist rhetoric about how evil all the JOOOOOZ are.
Is the arrest real, a ploy by the Saudis to inferfere in the internal workings of a sovereign nation - which they don't generally recognize - or is the arrest and plot REAL, but the fence angle going to be spun into a Pali propaganda coup against Israel's right to protect itself?
They'll say it couldn't work because it can't protect against planes. I ALWAYS said it wouldn't work, but it's Israel's right to build it. It's the right to build it which is the distinction here.
It was sort of a mystifying article. But I think the fence thing may have been reportorial spin.
The Saudis are/are not our friends. They're our friends when they think that AQ is targeting them, since AQ hates the Saudi ruling family, or at least parts of it, almost as much as they hate us and Israel. I suspect this was one of the moments when they found out that AQ was targeting them, so they were our friends at that particular moment.