Posted by
Gray Ghost on Monday, July 06, 2009 5:48:10 PM
London's Sunday Times reported that Saudi Arabia would allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran. According to the report, Mossad chief Meir Dagan (chief of the Mossad since 2002) told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Syria and Saudi sources have hinted to this diplomatic move. The results of this annoucement on the "world stage" were also interesting.
"The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia," an unnamed Middle Eastern diplomatic source stated.
"The Saudis are very concerned about an Iranian nuclear bomb, even more than the Israelis," a former Israeli intelligence head stated.
John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., said (speaking to several Arab leaders), "It was logical that Saudi Arabia would privately agree. None of them would say anything about it publicly, but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn’t trumpet it as a big success."
Bolton added (refering to Israel's attack on a Syrian nuclear site in 2007), "To this day, the Israelis haven’t admitted the specifics, but there’s one less nuclear facility in Syria." Bolton also said that the Arab countries would publicly condemn Israel at the U.N. but would breathe easier if the Iranian nuclear threat would be eliminated.
And even the White House is starting to sound "tough". Vice-President Joe Biden said (in an interview on ABC television), "The United States would not stand in the way if Israel chooses to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US could not interfere with any sovereign decision that Israel might take to defend itself against an Iranian nuclear threat. ... Look, Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else. We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do.”
Several media sources reported Friday, July 3, 2009, that an Israeli Dolphin Class submarine passed through the Suez Canal on its way to the Red Sea last month as part of a naval exercise. Israeli security officials told the Reuters news agency that the exercise was done as part of testing Israel’s strategy in light of the Iranian nuclear threat. Egypt denied the reports.
Wow! An Israeli Dolphin Class submarine in the Red Sea!
On May 4, 2009, I stated the following: "Unless something happens in Iran, I would expect the Middle East to "explode" in no more than a year."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6638568.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6651910.ece
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132195