[bert]

This is an interesting article because the reporter phrased the question in a manner that can be understood by the readers, the people who know about NATO.

The coalition that includes Egypt, jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qaqter, United Arab Emirates and Oman can easily be understood as NATO. That's what it is.

Although President Trump was not mentioned, his son in law Jared Kushner was his personal envoy in Israel and getting the Embassy moved to Jerusalem. The President himself very early on, went to Riyadh and before all of the assembled Arab world declared that things were going to be different.

Biden now has no real say in the Middle East. He will be given lip service but will make no difference. Iran is contained.

[allendale]

The basis for an alliance between Israel, the 9/11 Saudis and the arid Sunni Gulf states is the threat of Iran. If Israel were smart it would use this alliance for what its worth ( flyover rights and landing sites) and take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities bfore the weapons are loaded on medium range stealthy ballistic missiles. That “alliance” can quickly fall apart and the Obama operatives who now control CIA and NSA will inevitably leak any knowlegde they have of Mossad’s operation within Iran to the mullahs.

[RedStateRocker]

Long running ‘joke’ from an Israeli friend of mine:
Imagine an army with Egyptian manpower, Saudi money, and trained and led by the Israelis!

[Kevmo]

This article is just plain fascinating.

I remember reading about intelligence cooperation between Israel and Arab nations back in the 1980s in such books as “The Spymasters of Israel”.

These relationships seem to have blossomed now that there is a mutual future-nuclear enemy.

[Ancesthntr]

There are no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

It is in the permanent interest of most nations in the Middle East to not allow Iran to dominate the region, and to not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons (because that would guarantee their dominance of the region).

This was predictable at least, and possibly inevitable.

[elpadre]

Although he never said so, I had the opinion that is where Donald Trump was going with the Abraham Accords along with Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and several other like minded Muslim countries. Remember his first meeting with ME countries after taking office; I thought that was the beginning of a plan - a Mideast alliance similar to NATO. Then another one in the Far East countries - each region banding together for common defense.

[JGPhila]

“That whole list of things the US seeks to accomplish with Saudi Arabia is possible only in a partnership with Saudi Arabia that respects America’s values,” Price said.”

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This one sentence sums up the failure of traditional US/Western policy in the Middle East. For too long, the West has treated the ME as a Protectorate that had to abide by the West’s view of how things should be done. Trump changed the playing field by encouraging the ME countries to talk to one another and to make decisions that worked best for them. Clueless Biden, who has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy issue for his entire career, tried to go back to the old way of thinking by suggesting the US will rejoin the JCPOA, relax sanctions, and by removing the Iran supported Houthis in Yemen from the list of terrorist organizations. None of this was missed by the ME countries most effected, and this is the impetus for talk of a ME NATO. These countries are forging their own way forward and no longer will be subjected to the directions of the US or the West.

[Verginius Rufus]

NATO = North Arabian Treaty Organization?

[StoneWall Brigade]

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