Masopher's Mind

An interesting article popped up over the weekend of the 12-13th where Saudia Arabia has made secret agreements with Israel to “stand down” and allow Israeli F-16 bombing configuration planes to pass over and bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.

Click here to see Times Online article

This makes sense since the Sunni run empire has no love for the Shiia regime to its east and has no real qualms with the Jews to its north. Saudi Arabia is currently involved in a secret war in Iraq, financing the sectarian violence against the Shiite government. Saudi Arabia has never moved militarily against Israel in the 60 years of Israeli existence and along with Isreal and Turkey is one of the greatest recipients of American and British weapons systems. Both countries were set up through agreements with the former British empire and are “owers” of the most religious sites in all of the middle east including Christianity. The Sauds have systematically refused Palestinians the option to repatriate or resettle in the kingdom keeping now perhaps three generations of Palestinians as refugees.

Tellingly, Jordan, Turkey and Kurdistani Iraq have not allowed overflight status to the Israelis and will not be allowing Jews to bomb their fellow Muslims. Early today the Saudi Press Agency categorically denied the story calling it “lies” and “slanderous”. It reminds me of the old German Propoganda about the times that when you turn “TIMES” in reverse you read “SEMIT”. Was this planted by the British Intelligence establishment to rattle Iran’s cage? Was it a shot by Mossad?

The Gulf States are known for letting the Israelis have their way. At the beginning of 2010 around 26 suspected Mossad agents, some of them British passport holders, entered the United Arab Emirates and assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. 26 Jews turn up in Dubai and not an eyelash batted? They are even rumoured to have been assisted by the Palestinian Authority. Jordan, Egypt and Turkey have been more than chummy with Israel and even Israel’s interference in Beirut was on behalf of a Lebanese faction (albeit a catholic one).

Would Saudi Arabia go as far as to directly aid Israel’s attack on  Iran? I don’t think so. Not as it stands. The war is too cold for such a tactic, Muslims would probably not take what is essentially al-Saud’s decision very well.

However, Iran is as much if not even more of a threat to the Sunni kingdom as it is to the Jewish State. Iran’s  hidden conflict in Iraq spreads south west into Saudi Arabia’s borders and down into Oman and Yemen. As broke as Iran is, it manages to fund Shiite/resistance movements and revolutionary ideologies. Iran’s hegemony while contained does threaten the gulf region. Hamas, Hezbollah and the North Yemeni Houthi rebels are sources of instability used as proxies by Iran. If times were to get desperate, if Iran gets too close to weaponizing or making its nuclear material ballistic, Saudi Arabia would not only use its Eurofighters and F-15s but allow Israel to fly their F-15’s and F-16’s overhead as well.