Posted on 2/12/2008, 11:44:50 PM by camerakid400
LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday.
If Iran did build the bomb, said adviser Sami Alfaraj, then the Jewish state might be one of the countries -- along with the United States and Pakistan -- Gulf Arab nations would ask to provide a "nuclear umbrella" to guarantee their security.
Alfaraj, president of the Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies, said Israel might bomb Iranian nuclear facilities in the same way it destroyed Iraq's main atomic reactor at Osirak with a military strike in 1981.
"I believe in something on the same Iraqi model...We are assuming in the Gulf that Israel will take it out. We are not saying that, but Israel would," Alfaraj told Reuters at the start of an analyst 'roadshow' organised by Realite-EU, an independent body which tracks Middle East security developments.
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It would be a much, much trickier operation for Israel than bombing the Osirak reactor was, but I’m not going to pretend to be enough of an expert to understand all that is involved.
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I wonder what the reaction would be of the Gulf States to an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - utter silence like the Syrian operation? One can hope this would be a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The question is ? when ? then again, if we were told when, it would not be top secret.
Interesting though, that some of the Gulf States would be willing to accept Israel as a nuclear counterbalance to Iran. Nukes do make for strange bedfellows. I assume Israel would want something tangible out of the deal.
I would enjoy seeing that too.
Strange as it sounds, Israel and Saudi Arabia have had some rather hush hush backchannel type talks about the possibility of a military alliance in the face of Iranian aggression. Which means the Saudis are pretty dang worried about it, I guess.
Israel better get something good in return.
Iran and Pakistan are not on friendly terms. Neither are Iraq and Iran. Or Saudi and Iran. Or anybody and Iran, except Syria because Syria has even fewer friends than Iran.
some of the Gulf States would be willing to accept Israel as a nuclear counterbalance to Iran.”
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Because they Gulf states realize Israel is the only rational, democratic, country in the area...themselves included.
Also Iran likes Syria because Assad is a Shiite. The Shiites are hated by most Sunnis probably even more than they hate Israel.
It boils down to range. Iraq was a heckuva lot closer than Iran would be.
The Alawites aren’t even Muslims. The tiny Shi’a minority in Syria is the only one that can be bullied into recognizing them as a Shi’a sect, thus protecting the Alawites from the treatment given to kuffar. Assad is stuck with Iran to the bitter end whether he likes it or not.
The man is saying that the Israeli action it will be accomplished with GCC support and that implies military back up....
I told you a year or more ago that would come to pass
It is happening now
Your dealing with ‘effin Arabs and chicken___t moslems...
IOW, they’ll break a forked tongue out of both of their faces. The Gulf Arab states don’t want a nuclear Iran any more than the Israelis do, but when the Israelis actually man up and do what needs to be done, the arabs will raise their noises out of the butt of the man in front them, bleat something about “filthy jooooos!” at the top of their lungs, and in private when the cameras and microphones are off of them, they’ll break out the hash pipe and say to each other, “woo, sure is good those crazy Persian Shiite don;t have a nuke.”
“Gulf Arab nations would ask to provide a “nuclear umbrella” to guarantee their security...”
Charge them a few billion barrels of their crude for guaranteeing their security.
That struck me the most, too - Arab States saying they could live with an umbrella held by Israel...
I think the changes in Lebanon and Iraq are trickling through the rest of the Middle East. Egypt having a MASSIVE problem with the Palestinians isn’t helping. I think cooler heads are starting to prevail, and we could see a change in the Middle East, at least as far as most Arab countries see Israel’s right to exist.
Interesting....the Arabs are dead scared of Iran with the bomb, and so far the only person I can think of who has likened Iran as a nuclear state to Hitler on a public news interview is an Arab.
(I don’t remember his name, it was in an article awhile ago, but you don’t see McCain or Obama or Huckabee or Hillary daring to put Iran and Hitler in the same sentence).
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