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AP: Alliance between ’Israel’, KSA to Face Iran, Undercut Hizbullah

AP: Alliance between ’Israel’, KSA to Face Iran, Undercut Hizbullah
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Talks of a deal between Iran, and the West launched the madness of some of the Gulf Kingdom's madness as well as that of the Zionist entity.

AP: Alliance between ’Israel’, KSA to Face Iran, Undercut Hizbullah

In this context, the Associated Press highlighted that the enmity to Iran brought both "Israel" and the KSA together in a strange alliance.
When US Secretary of State John Kerry made another stop in the Middle East this month, he received an expected earful over Washington's outreach to Iran: Don't trust Tehran, tighten sanctions even more, anything short of complete nuclear concessions is a grave mistake.

Kerry's meeting wasn't in "Israel", though. It was in Riyadh, listening to Saudi leaders.
According to the report, "Israel" and the Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia increasingly are finding common ground - and a common political language - on their mutual dismay over Iran's history-making overtures to Washington and the prospect of a nuclear deal in Geneva.
"The adage about 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' is playing out over Iran," said Theodore Karasik, a security and political affairs analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. "This situation opens up some interesting possibilities as it all shakes out."

In this context, the former "Israeli" ambassador to the UN pointed out that "KSA and "Israel's" shared worries over Iran's influence and ambitions already has brought back-channel contacts and intimate relationships on "defense" and other strategic interests through forums such as the UN."
The stepped-up anxieties on Iran could bring new space for the Gulf-"Israel" overlap.
The report also mentioned: "Saudi and other Gulf states are critical money-and-weapons pipelines to Syrian rebels in a proxy war with Iran, the main Middle East backers of Bashar Assad's government."
On Tuesday, an al-Qaeda-linked group claimed it carried out a pair of suicide bombings at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut that killed 23 people, including an Iranian diplomat, in an attack that was widely seen as retaliation against Hizbullah and Iran.

According to the AP, "Israel" may now be able to look more to Saudi assistance and intelligence in efforts to undercut Hizbullah, which has fired rockets into "Israel" and waged a 2006 war.
 
"A nuclear deal... is likely to intensify behind-the-scene political cooperation between the Persian Gulf states and "Israel", especially when it comes to lobbying in Washington and in Brussels," said the "Israeli" analyst, Meir Javedanfar.
Already, some view "Israel" and Saudi Arabia as being on the same page.
Earlier, Britain's Sunday Times stated that the kingdom and "Israel" were making "contingencies" for an attack on Iran if diplomacy fails to make deep cuts in Tehran's nuclear program.

On Sunday, "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that his country was ready to "defend itself" if Iran appeared on course to develop a nuclear weapon.
"We have a common enemy, Iran, and we have shared disappointments from our allies, mainly the United States, something that created a somewhat strange alliance between "Israel" and the Gulf states," said Gillerman, the former diplomat.

Source: AP, Edited by website team