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[Stephen M. Walt] What to Read About the "Direct Talks" (and why you should still be ...: The alternative is for the United States to play the role of conductor, coordinating the efforts of different nations even as it preserves its privileged ties to Israel and others. For example, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, together with Qatar and Turkey, could spearhead efforts to bring about Palestinian national reconciliation consistent with a continued U.S.-led peace process. Turkey, assuming that it mends its ties with Israel and maintains its newfound credibility in Arab countries, could serve as a channel to Hamas and Syria on peace talks or to Iran on the nuclear issue. Under the auspices of the United States, Iraq's Arab neighbors and Iran could reach a minimal consensus on Iraq's future aimed at maintaining Iraq's territorial unity, preserving its Arab identity, protecting Kurdish rights, and ensuring healthy, balanced relations between Baghdad and Tehran. Washington should intensify its efforts to resume and conclude peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, which would do far more to affect Tehran's calculations than several more rounds of UN sanctions. Syria also could be useful in reaching out to residual pockets of Sunni militants in Iraq."

[Islam Times - Last topics] Islam Times - The Al-Saud Family in the scope of the West: Moreover, the Muftis of the Al-Saud family issued Fatwas prohibiting praying for Hezbollah's victory in Lebanon! The Gaza War Contrary to the expectations and wishes of Saudi Arabia and its Western allies, the July war on Lebanon ended up .

[FPIF Regions: Middle East & North Africa] Foreign Policy In Focus | Iran-Saudi Relations: Rising Tensions ...: Not foregoing memories of Saudi support for Iraq during the latter’s invasion of Iran, Tehran’s main annoyance stems from the belief that Saudi Arabia is covertly cooperating with its enemies on three fronts: cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the abduction of an Iranian nuclear scientist, coordination with Israel on a potential “surgical strike” against Iran’s nuclear facility, and ideological-material support for Iran’s main domestic terrorist group, the Jundullah.

[Jihad Watch] Al-Qaeda preaches overthrow of House of Saud, warfare against Jews ...: Al-Qaeda ordered supporters in the Saudi army to "collect information on everything related to the Saudi royal family" in an effort to dethrone them, a speaker identified as Saeed al- Shihri said in an Arabic-language recording posted today on a website that often carries al-Qaeda statements. The identity of the speaker could not immediately be verified.

[Planet-Iran.com] Al Qaeda Plans for War with Israel | Planet-Iran.com: Any sympathizer who has access to Arab leaders like the princes of the House of Saud, for example, should look for a chance to kill one in an act of terror reminiscent of the assassination of the “tyrant Anwar Sadat” in 1981. Iran will attack American installations in the Gulf, encourage its proxies in Iraq and Afghanistan to attack Americans, and engage in a global terror campaign.

[Mideast Youth] Mideast Youth » Blog Archive » Saudi Arabia & Israel vs. Iran ...: form an alliance with the West against Iran given war erupts, the possibility of Sunnis and Shiites getting along are quite slim, and this diminishes the possibility of the Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia, ruled by the Sunni Al-Saud family and governed by Islamic Shari’ah Law to have a strong alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which adopts the Shiite sect and enforces a theocratic rule upon the state. And with Saudi Arabia’s past history of giving corridor to U.S. troops to pass through to Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1990 [Operation Desert Storm], this entire situation is just starting to look like Iraq 2.0 to me.

[Untitled] The Enduring Middle East Strategic Framework Begins to Emerge as ...: At the time, Iran exploited the widespread trauma as a result of the US undermining and shaming of both (Iraq’s) nationalist Sunni Islam and (Saudi Arabia’s) traditional-conservative Sunni Islam in the 1990-1 Gulf War in order to push its own Shi’ite-based doctrine of revolutionary-militant Islam. By 1992, Sudan’s Hassan al-Turabi adapted the Iranian jihadist tenets and adopted them into the Sunni neo-salafite doctrine, thus setting the grounds for the ascent of the jihadist trend now popularly associated with Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their supporters.

[RealClearWorld] RealClearWorld - America's Proxy War in the Middle East: For decades, the Persian Gulf region - subsumed under a latent Sunni-Shi'ite divide - was animated by a drama of Iraq-Iran rivalry; each power balanced the other.

[Revolutionizing Awareness] So, Who Won the War in Iraq? Iran. « Revolutionizing Awareness: For example, Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al-Saud dynasty views itself as the rightful leader of the Muslim world, but Iran is challenging that leadership right now. Although Saudi Arabia has a Sunni majority, its rulers fear Iran’s potential influence over a sizable and sometimes-restive Shiite population concentrated in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province.

[cypee.com] cypee.com: Even Israelis didnâ€â™t mind this time when we sold F ...: After losing Iran, President Jimmy Carter had initiated the Rapid Deployment Force (CentCom's precursor), showing that even then Washington understood that U.S. troops would have to protect Saudi oilfields from real predators, as they did when Saddam Hussein marched through Kuwait. Reagan presumably saw this as well, for while the arms sold to Saudi Arabia were ostensibly intended to help protect the Saudis against the Soviet Union as well as the revolutionary energies that turned their Shia neighbor in Tehran openly hostile, the deal was largely an expression of U.S. support for a vital ally.

[Hit & Run] The Tantalizing, Sober, Respectable Joys Of Nuking Iran - Hit ...: A "sector" of the U.S. wanted out of Vietnam because we had nobusiness there. Jesus f%#$ing Kee-ryste, he's still playing Vietnamin his basement with his die-cast armies, and I'm sure he's got avictory all worked out, and he'd have won, too, if it weren't forus meddling kids.

[Blogs For Victory] Bolton: Israel Has 8 Days to Hit Iran Nukes » Blogs For Victory: Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen, the self styled Al Qaeda in the Arabian Pennisula (AQAP), issued a audio message earlier this month with a lecture by its second in command Saeed al Shehri in which he tells jihadists in the Middle East that “what is expected is for the war to begin by the Jews against Iran.” Israel will stage air strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations to start. Shehri expects the Iranian Shia regime to try to take advantage of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities to seize the holy cites of Mecca and Medina by blaming Saudi Arabia for helping Israel attack.

[Marginal Revolution] Marginal Revolution: View of Jimmy Carter and his Presidency: Osama bin Laden got involved in Afghanistan around 1980 when he was personally sent by the head of Saudi intel, Prince Turki bin Faisal bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman al Sa'ud to help the anti-Soviet mujaheddin build tunnels and caves. It was vets of this group that would form the core of al Qaeda later, with Osama making excellent use of his intimate knowledge of those tunnels, him being selected as a son of the man who had done a great deal of reconstruction work on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » I [Heart] Ankh-Morpork New Yorkers: The Saudis hate Hamas, a Sunni offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood just like CAIR is and al-Rauf's camel's-nose-under-the-tent Cordoba terrorist theme Park51 project. And the Saudis despise the Shi'ite Hezbollah, who are an Iranian .

[IsraelSeen.com] Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan Comprehensive Analysis | IsraelSeen.com: after its chief author, then-Saudi crown prince Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz, constitutes the most significant and explicit collective Arab declaration in favor of a peaceful, mutually agreed-on resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict ever made. By adopting the plan at the March 2002 League of Arab States’s Beirut summit and reaffirming it in Riyadh in 2007, the collective Arab position towards the conflict has been modified in the direction of a more explicit recognition of Israel.

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