[caption id="attachment_3256" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Israeli Airforce, Photo Credit: Author Tech. Sgt. Kevin Gruenwald"]
[/caption]The Times online is reporting that the Saudis have given the Israelis permision to use its airspace for attacking Iran's budding nuclear facilities. It is hard to fathom that Saudi Arabia would give the Israelis permission to use its airspace to carryout bombing raids on Iran’s nuclear facilities - but these are the times that we are living in.
Everyone knows the enmity between the House of Saud and Israel over the Palestinian issue… but the thought of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons now is of more import to the Saudis, Egyptians, and the Jordanians, all of whom are Sunnis. The Iranians on their part are Shiite and they have been much blood-letting between them and the Sunnis for hundred of years… over who should be considered the rightful heir to Muhammad (Caliphate).
The Sunnis are worried that if Iran were to procure nuclear weapons… then they too would have to do the same to secure some sort of mutually assured destruction, similar to America’s posture with the former Soviet Union. The Sunnis are not going to forget the numerous past bloody struggles that have taken place between them and the Shiite - the Saudis, in particular, have thwarted numerous attacks from within its kingdom… carried out by sympathizers doing the bidding of the Iranian regime.
The situation is further compounded when you have the Iranian leader, with the apparent blessings of the Mullahs, threatening Israel’s utter destruction, and Israel, knowing its history vis-a-vis Hitler’s final solution, take this kind of genocidal rhetoric seriously.
If the Saudis, indeed, have given Israel the green light to fly over their territories unmolested, this is not the only obstacle faced by the Israeli air force. The United States, who now controls the Iraqi air space, would have to give its assent too… and with the recent sanctions in place against Iran, no one knows if the Obama administration will do so… perhaps thinking that the Israelis should give the sanctions time to be effective. But if the Saudis and the rest of the Sunni countries have assented to this attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, doesn’t it say loud and clear that they know that the sanctions will have no effect to thwart the Iranian mullahs’ aim of acquiring nuclear weapons?
The Israelis also must know that the Iranian Nuclear facilities are buried deep in the earth and it would be a challenge even for the updated bunker busters – but such is the danger the region sees in the possibility of the Iranians acquiring nuclear weapons… that someone must try to prevent Iran from procuring weapons of mass destruction. This aspect of enemies like the Saudis and Israel becoming temporary friends to thwart a mutually destructive foe is nothing new; a cursory study of the great Prussian/German Statesman, Otto Bismarck would have prepared you for such an eventuality.
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