An alliance will see Israel teaming up with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey & the United Arab Emirates to forge a Middle East “moderate crescent” to “contain” Iran, rather than confront it.
The report of a new alliance between Israel and several Sunni Muslim Arab states for “containment” of a nuclear Iran has people more worried than they should be, according to Arutz Sheva strategic affairs contributor, Mark Langfan.Langfan says that the alliance is one of necessity for all partners,
because Israel is, in effect, Saudi Arabia’s northwestern line of
defense:“With Mubarak’s toppling, Saudi Arabia lost an 80-million-population Arab country as its key strategic counterweight to Iran.“What’s worse,” says Langfan, “the Saudis lost guaranteed access of
the Suez Canal as an emergency supply node for an American defense of
Saudi Arabia from an Iranian attack. With Obama’s wobbling on attacking
Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Sunni gulf kingdoms have only one hope, a
Sunni-Israeli alliance.“In short, with Mubarak’s fall, Egypt went from being a Saudi
strategic ally, to a Muslim brotherhood enemy of the Saudis that
couldn’t be trusted on any issue. Thus, Israel, and only Israel, became
the Saudi Arabia’s military ally of necessity, and not convenience.“The fact that they are in discussions to form an alliance
shows that there is a military symbiosis between Israel and the Gulf
kingdoms,” he adds.
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