John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN MONDOWEISS
“The US mainstream media is ignoring the Israel-Saudi Arabia de facto alliance”
Yes, and it's all part of American effort to reshape the entire Middle East, an effort which so far has cost about 2 million lives.
The Crown Prince is regarded as a key part of the future of that effort.
He serves the hyper-aggressive new American drive for empire worldwide.
And, of course, Israel really is a de facto American colony in the Mideast.
Actually, the Saudis and Israelis have always had a lot in common, contrary to popular notions.
Both represent privilege in the region, extreme privilege.
Both represent forms of wealth. The Saudis, oil. The Israelis, American and British dual-citizen investors.
Both want to have a lot of "clout" in the region. That’s the problem with Iran for both of them. Its size - about the population of Germany – and oil wealth make it the “natural” dominant country in the region.
Israel’s problems with Iran have nothing to do with anti-Semitism. That accusation is just another weapon for beating down an unwelcome competitor for influence.
Importantly, both represent outsider interests. The House of Saud only goes back a little while, a decade or so, before re-created Israel. It is not an ancient kingdom, although they like to create that impression.
Israel was re-created and is run by Ashkenazim, a group of Germanic origin whose native language is Yiddish, a derivative of German. The word Ashkenazi means "German." Nothing Middle Eastern about it, except a sentimental attachment to the land of the Bible for believers, but belief gives you no legitimate real estate claims. If it did, the world would be an even bigger mess than it is.
After 9/11, the Saudis were desperately looking for ways to improve their standing in Washington's eyes.
They did not "do" 9/11 but there were lots of shady matters that made them look bad. Payments to Osama intended only to keep him out of Saudi Arabia. Saudi citizens in the hijack crowd.
After all, from almost any point of view, America’s invading Saudi Arabia, even though they weren’t guilty, would have made immensely more sense than the pointless invasion of Afghanistan. So, the Saudis felt keenly the need to please.
Cozying up to Israel was one of their main methods of attacking the problem. They've been working on it now for years. The tone of all press and publicity coming out of Saudi Arabia is unrecognizable from, say, 15 years ago.
And the Crown "usurper" Prince takes things even further, just what Washington wants.
Washington loves men with highly flexible morals and principles. They are useful to the cause of empire. A version of Hitler's willing helpers, if you will.
The Saudis won creds for covertly supporting the slaughter in Syria, a pet project of Israel's.
Bombing the crap out of Yemen gave them some gold stars too.
As did their internal assaults on a small Shia minority, Shia Islam being identified with some of Israel's most hated states.
The Khashoggi Affair is an embarrassment, but they're doing their best to work around it.
The extra couple of days Pompeo gave them for a "thorough" investigation is for them to get their story straight and decide on the fall guys.
Interestingly, Turkey keeps revealing grisly details to pressure for things they want. They do know exactly what happened.
Here is some additional information on the Saudi-Israeli alliance:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/john-chuckman-comment-is-something-big-about-to-break-in-saudi-arabia-we-have-the-most-fascinating-bit-of-dirty-work-in-years-revealing-flat-footed-lies-and-hypocrisy-from-the-united-states-it/
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