Israel’s Channel 2 is claiming Saudi Arabia is close to agreeing to let Israel use their airspace to attack Iran, something Israel has been reported to be seeking for many years.
The latest report says that Saudi Arabia would be willing to let them use their air space, but only if Israel makes some progress on a peace deal with the Palestinians.
The theory is that Saudi Arabia would be able to get away with cooperating on the attack with less regional backlash if Israel was making some credible progress on the peace deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is determined to prevent any deal between Iran and the P5+1, and attacking Iran would certainly be one way of killing the diplomatic process. Netanyahu’s aversion to making any progress on peace with the Palestinians, however, makes that concession unlikely.
It should be noted that Israeli papers have reported similar “deals” in the past, only for Saudi Arabia to come out and deny them in a day or two.
They had better hurry. If the Iranians get those Russian S-300's not a lot of the 125 airplanes the Israelis plan to send would get home again.
Iran is going to get the upgraded Antey-2500 version of the S-300 with much longer range and ceiling abilities.
theory is … able to get away … with less regional backlash if … credible progress on the peace deal.
That nixes that. Key word would be 'credible.'
israeli are not big enough to attack Iran.Iran and Hezbolah will and would destroye israel
That's exactly why they want us to do their dirty work. Same rational (partially) for why we got involved in Iraq.
Warmongering and crazy person Benjamin Satanyahu…there should be concentrated efford by internacional comunity to destroy Israels régime – at any cost. Cancerous tumor / Israels régime/ only grows and will only create more troubles in ME….Pedro CR
I say let them try SA and then both your evil country and the zionists evil state can be destroyed once and for all
two birds with one stone
Helpless Israel — Has a little thankless purpose
That is not what Israel was created for, surely not to invade and destroy gigantic nations and thereby suck Empire USA into the disaster of a global war.
For little Israel was created to be a little terrorist state, one that did little but unbearable terrorists things most perfect for maximizing profit in the trading of war materials for Middle-East oil.
For Israel was created to take all the heat off of the Western corporate rich so that they could terrorize, plunder and enslave the Middle-East and have Israel get all the blame for it.
For like a heartless man who trades his wife in for a newer model, surely when peak oil has come and gone, so will Israel be long gone, as USA will take back it’s nukes and back to Europe will Israel go crying and weeping.
If it looks like Netanyahoo is going to lose the Israeli election, what are the odds that he makes a last ditch effort to get his way and attacks Iran – and then declares that it would be wrong and dangerous to change "leaders" while in the midst of a war?
I'm not a betting man, but…delusions of grandeur can affect people in strange ways.
Surely you can't mean something like….."The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." I seem to remember this was said nearly 70 years ago and it as just as accurate as it was then.
…exactly like what the USG is doing now, isn't it? But because the idiocy level of the American people is so high and the elitist level of privilege and security runs rampant (and the fact that they don't teach stuff like what Goering said in the government-run school system) the American people are like sheep being led to slaughter.
More absurdities.
How might anyone delude themselves into thinking Israel will escape annihilation in the event of a major war and certainly if nukes are employed. Israel is the most hated entity on earth. Israel has no friends, rather the blackmailed, bribed, threatened, bought, beaten, maimed and murdered. All these, but zero friends. When the Yakhonts arrive by the dozens at mach 3, 50 feet altitude, the Iron Dome and Arrow might as well be ATMs for all the good they will do. The world will cheer so loud as to be heard on the moon. I remember Putin, after being threatened by Netanyahu, mentioning something about an ashtray..
If you think the Saudis care about Palestine, then you are sadly mistaken. They are the Sunni lightening rod as Iran is the Shia lightening rod. Shiites are a much bigger threat to Saudis than Israel. Look how 12 years of turmoil in Iraq has resulted in even stronger Iranian influence in Iraq! And how much money was spent by the US and its allies in the process?!
USS LIBERTY —– Rachel Corrie ——- Johnathan Pollard —– 135 Mossad operatives were detained after 9/11 and deported to Israel. Israel had sole interest and opportunity in 9/11. ———— 60+ years living off American WELFARE
Put Netanyahu in CHAINS the second he steps out of his plane. Netanyahu received American citizenship during his study years at MIT and has never renounced it. Netanyahu is a "DUAL Citizen" which means he sucks up the BENEFITS of being an American but he is LOYAL only to Israel. He must be arrested for TREASON to America,. Israel set the PRECEDENT of kidnapping with Eichmann ….so the FBI/CIA should go grab Netanyahu out of Israel or anywhere he HIDES. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/mothero… http://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8045747/netanyahu-us…
Report: Netanyahu may have leaked US secrets to hurt Iran negotiations
US officials believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized his government to release secret details of the US nuclear negotiations with Iran to the Israeli press, according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
The alleged leaks would appear designed to undermine the negotiations, which Israel opposes. In response, according to Ignatius, the US has decided to "reduce the exchange of sensitive information about the Iran talks" with Israel. http://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-secret-nucle…
Leaked cables from Israel’s intelligence agency reveal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu misled the United Nations about Iran’s nuclear program.
In Sept. 2012, Netanyahu stood before the UN General Assembly with a cartoonish diagram of a bomb and warned that Iran was about a year away from completing its “plans of building a nuclear weapon,” calling for action to halt the process and justifying Israel’s rights to act militarily if necessary.
“By next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move[d] on to the final stage,” Netanyahu told the U.N. “From there, it’s only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.” But in Oct. 2012, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad sent a top-secret cable to South Africa’s state security agency saying that the Islamic Republic was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons and doesn’t appear to be ready to enrich Uranium to the higher levels needed to the nuclear bomb,” according a secret cable obtained by Al Jazeera and shared with the Guardian.
william
"Saudi Arabia would be willing to let them use their air space, but only if Israel makes some progress on a peace deal with the Palestinians"
So no then.