Saturday, August 24, 2013

The Axis Of Evil: Israel and Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have joined Israel in an informal alliance that is backing Egypt’s de facto military government.
Despite the international consternation over the bloody repression of  protests on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities, Israeli officials have been quietly lobbying Western leaders to back the government, warning that military rule is the only alternative in Egypt.
Alongside Israel’s representatives, Saudi Arabia’s diplomats have also been seeking to persuade the US and the EU not to levy sanctions on Egypt.
The Saudis, along with their Gulf neighbours, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, have already promised around $12 billion of aid to Egypt, far more than the US provides.
... in a rare public acknowledgment of the security ties between the countries, an adviser to Egypt’s caretaker president, Adli Mansour, said in a television interview that “it is natural for Israel to monitor events in a neighbouring country” and that such activity is necessary to prevent “spill-over” of the situation in Sinai and “is in the entire region’s interest”.
For more than three decades since the signing of the Camp David Accords, Israel and Egypt have been tacit allies against the radical axis in the region which today includes Iran, Syria and Hizbollah in Lebanon. 
As the revolution began stirring in January 2011, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Obama administration and other Western governments to continue backing President Hosni Mubarak.
Now that Mr Morsi is deposed, Israeli officials are quietly satisfied at the emergence of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the de-facto leader of Egypt. “We know al-Sisi and we can do business with him,” said one senior Israeli security official.

2 comments:

soosmeyn said...

click to investigate Continue Reading look at this now get more my link browse around this web-site

Anonymous said...

replica bags chicago replica hermes handbags e0j07m7b85 replica bags in gaffar market replica bags 168 mall special info k9x82z2e71 7a replica bags visit this web-site k6g60l7g01 replica bags china replica bags online shopping india