The news:
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran.
To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert…
This is impossible to confirm, but it makes sense – no nation in the middle east wants a nuclear-armed Iran.
To be sure, if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear sites (or if we were to do so) the whole Moslem would would be free with condemnations…but also with quiet sighs of relief. Its good to keep in mind that there is a great deal of falsity in the middle eastern stew. Positions have been taken up which are stupid and/or laughably false – but once taken up it is felt they can’t be set down. Officially, the whole Moslem world has taken up hatred of Israel as a matter of policy – but in reality, many Moslem nations have the same interests as Israel…in other words, if “hate Israel” wasn’t something now carved in to Moslem stone, Israel and Saudi Arabia would long since have had a military alliance for mutual defense.
But such is not to be – reality is not allowed to be noted in public. And so we might well see Saudi Arabia temporarily turning off its air defense system to allow Israeli jets to fly alone on a mission vital to Saudi Arabia’s national security and which, indeed, the Saudi air force (equipped much as the Israeli air force is) could render great service in the mutually desired goal of a non-nuclear Iran.
Strange world. Back a few years ago, President Bush tried telling some truth about the whole mess over there – most notably when he broke with Arafat – but it wasn’t pressed forward given the number of other issues which came up. Obama has fallen all the way back to 1979 and is counting on the absurdity of a “peace process” to carry the day. Some day, hopefully, we will get a President who will just tell the whole truth and refuse to allow the other players to maintain their lies…a bit of truth would unravel the middle eastern knot pretty quickly, if someone would just have the courage to really try it.
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