Posted on 07/05/2009 12:37:59 PM PDT by Avi Kane
Saudi Arabia would turn the other cheek and allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran, London’s Sunday Times reports. According to the report, Mossad chief Meir Dagan has told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Syria has hinted to the move.
“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israel air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” a diplomatic source stated.
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Now the Israelis just need the fly over rights which the United States has denied for the last several years.
Since when do the Israelis need the “permission” of the Saudis to do anything?
The real war is the cold war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran.
hope they drop a bomb on mecca on the way back.
Not permission, but just a promise that the Saudis would not attack Israel in retaliation for an Israeli attack on Iran.
Look at a map.
...As if they could stop them.
The only nation that could stop them is the US, who effectively controls Iraqi airspace and had previously denied Israel the Iraqi fly over rights.
This isn’t media spin. It’s not the least bit surprising actually. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni Arab power with the most oil reserves on the planet. Iran is a Shi’ite non-Arab power with the second most oil reserves on the planet. Sunnis hate Shi’ites, Arabs hate Persians, and the last thing the Saudis want is for their regional rival to go nuclear and blackmail the Arab world for energy (Iran can’t refine its own oil, they’re too poor).
You have to look at these guys’ mindset, warped as it is: the Saudis consider themselves the guardians of the “holy” mosques at Mecca and Medina, and a head above everyone else because Islam was born in their country and they consider Wahhabism to be the “purest” form of Islam. They don’t want some second-rate, “impure” Shi’ite *Persians* calling the shots in the region.
It’s all tribalism. Welcome to the 7th century.
Mad mo’s cult:
Bringing you the 7th Century - for 1400 years now!!
The most important thing for the Israeli government, in its plans, should be the reaction to the strike.
Israel will, more than likely, get tacit, private statements that neighbors will not shoot down Israeli aircraft.
Publicly, these same countries might well condemn the Israeli air strike.
Such is the political situation, in that part of the world.
Yep...and in typical Saudi fashion, they get someone else to do their dirty work instead of doing it themselves
Methinks the Saudis (know they) wouldn’t do well in the battlefield, even in shiny American fighter planes and tanks.
Especially against the Israeli.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner.
Why should Israel about flying through any Arab country’s airspace? What are the A-Rabs going to do about it? That’s right, nothing. Besides, the Arabs have no love for Iran and they’re secretly hoping that Israel wipes out Iran’s nuclear capability.
Great point! And a weakened Iran might allow Saudi Arabia more flexibility in promoting Wahhabism in the Muslim world and ultimately terrorism against the west.
Yeah that’s true. That’s why we had to push Saddam back for them, because they were incapable of doing it themselves.
There was a story about this a couple of weeks ago too, Saudis denial was featured. If there were anything to it, the leak must have come from Saudi turncoats against the destruction of Iranian nukes. If it’s fake, it could come from anywhere, but I’d suspect Iranian disinfo.
Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran
The Times | July 5, 2009 | Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter
Posted on 07/04/2009 10:01:56 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2285767/posts
Biden: U.S. Won’t Stop Israeli Strike On Iran
Haaretz | July 5, 2009
Posted on 07/05/2009 7:42:20 AM PDT by Strategy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285926/posts
Biden Suggests U.S. Not Standing in Israel’s Way on Iran
New York Times | July 5, 2009 | Brian Knowlton
Posted on 07/05/2009 2:25:10 PM PDT by reaganaut1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2286111/posts
Israel, Fighter Jets, Submarines, Satellites and Iran
Israel News Agency / Google News | July 5, 2009 | Joel Leyden
Posted on 07/05/2009 1:16:42 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2286072/posts
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