Saudierna hjälper Egypten mot ISIS-terrorister i Sinai.

Obama talar om att lämna Sinai. Både Egypten och Israel ser det med oro, men vem kan påverka vad Obongon får för sej.



Saudi cash boosts Egypt’s war on ISIS-Sinai after US opts out

Saudiarabien: terrorister är faktiskt muslimer. . Chockerande för politiskt korrekta svenskar.

Det får både Obongon och politiskt korrekta vänsterfanatiker i Sverige, som regeringen, att chockas.

Saudi TV host: Time to face facts, terrorists are Muslims

Khamenei: Irans framtid beror på missiler, inte förhandlingar.

Sverige var rasande snabba att åka till Teherans basarer efter förhandlingsresultat ej legalt bindande CNN dailymail Townhall, ointresserade av de ballistiska missilerna Iran sände upp länk. Tror inte regeringen har läst detta heller. Inget ont får sägas om en shoppingpartner, men Wallstöm älskar att hoppa på saudierna. De är förvisso inga änglar utom i jämförelse med Iran.

2014 års dödsstraff

Countries with the Most Confirmed Executions in 2014
1. China (1,000s *see above)	4. Iraq (61+)
2. Iran (289+)	5. United States (35)
3. Saudi Arabia (90+)	6. Sudan (23+)

Iran's future depends on missiles, not negotiations, Khamenei says 

DEBKAfile March 30, 2016, 2:35 PM (IDT)

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday at a religious event in Tehran that his country's military needs to continue to boost its capabilities in order to confront the threats of "the enemy" as well as place the country in a better position at future diplomatic negotiations. Referring to his domestic rivals, he added that "they say the future of the world is one of negotiation and not one of missiles....if that is said out of ignorance, well it is ignorance, but if it’s said knowingly, it is treason." 

†Iran †antisemitism . .........

Spelet i Mellanöstern.

Att det är komplicerat vet vi, och det blir inte klarare efter att ha studerat svenska massmedia.

Russia to keep S-400 in Syria until Saudi warplanes leave Turkey

Wallström och FN tror Saudierna begått krigsbrott helt utan bevis.

Många tror på rykten vilken källan än  är.

Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Politicized UNhttp://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7434/saudi-arabia-yemen-un

by Richard Kemp and Jasper Reid
February 16, 2016 at 5:30 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7434/saudi-arabia-yemen-un

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Comment (4)

• The UN's assertion that the Saudi-led coalition has committed war crimes in Yemen is unlikely to be true. UN experts have not been to Yemen, depending instead on hearsay evidence and analysis of photographs.
• The UN has a pattern of unsubstantiated allegations of war crimes against the armed forces of sovereign states. Without any military expertise, and never having visited Gaza, a UN commission convicted the Israel Defense Force of deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians in the 2014 conflict. It was an assessment roundly rejected by America's most senior military officer, General Martin Dempsey, and an independent commission.
• The Houthis have learned many lessons from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, groups also supported by Iran. Those lessons include the falsification of civilian casualty figures and their causes. The UN swallowed the fake Gaza figures hook, line and sinker, and are now making the same error in Yemen.
• The Houthis exploit gullible or compliant reporters and human rights groups to facilitate their propaganda, including false testimony and fabrication of imagery.
• Forensic analysis shows that rather than deliberately targeting civilians, the Saudis and their allies have taken remarkable steps to minimize civilian casualties.

†Iran †Wallström †Saudiarabien †antisemitism . .........

Obongos önskan av atombomber i Saudiarabien.

Obongon är självklart inte dummare än att vara medveten - även om han inte berättar om det för den oförstående pöbeln, - att Saudiarabien är tvingad att skaffa kärnvapen om Iran tillåts att i sakta mån utveckla sina egna enligt den vansinniga Obama/Iranplanen, som hotar Saudierna och Israel i lika mån. Samtidigt talar planen inte ett dyft om att Iran supportar alla shit- och många sunnirebeller. Ledarna i Turkiet och Egypten tvings också av Obamas "seger" och alla applåder från EU att planera atomförsvar.  Iran utökar sitt förråd av ballistiska missiler länk.

Vad Israel tvingas göra pga Obama är förstås att polera och uppgradera ev. kärnvapen som Obama avslöjade att Israel hade, länk. Den mannen gör precis allting för att offra säkerheten för Israels befolkning föt att tillfredsställa sina beundrare.

Tre vyer av avrättningarna i Saudiarabien

1) Avpixlats variant

2) Egyptens variant

3) Spenglers variant.

†Saudiarabien  †Iran  †sunni-shia. .........

Iran har avrättat mer än 1600 sedan Rouhani.

Som alltid får bara Saudiarabiernas bestraffande nämnas i Svenska media, inte USAs (som brukar vara ca hälften av Saudiernas) eller Iran: Iran har avrättat minst 1900 sedan Rouhani började visa sin leende nuna. TT.

Iran’s ‘staggering’ execution spree: nearly 700 put to death in just over six months

Iran executes hundreds in brutal crane hangings at mega-prison outside Tehran

Men Iran shoppar vi ju hos, och det får inte störas. Sen utrikesblondinen skrek ut om Saudiarabien får inga andra hatnyheter nämnas från regionen - utom Israel förstås.

Inser inte TT hur påtagligt det är?

†Saudiarabien  †Iran †Israel. .......

Saudiarabien utfattigt.

Alla skäller på Saudiarabien - se vår utrikesblondin som hittar mycket fler fel hos dem än hos t.ex. Iran som har mycket fler avlivningar eller Qatar som stöder mycket fler terrorister.

Se http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-announces-record-98-billion-deficit-in-2015/

All har gått snett. De räknade aldrig med att USA skulle utvinna så mycket olja via fracking. Deras krig mot Irans terrorister i Jemen har blivit dyrt. Nu är det i stället Qatar som är rika som troll - och dessutom överöser terrorister som det vidriga Hamas med överskottet.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4898/qatar-terrorism

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11110931/How-Qatar-is-funding-the-rise-of-Islamist-extremists.html

†Saudiarabien  †Qatar †antisemitism †Israel . .........

Dödsstraff.

Har du märkt en sak - när DN talar om dödsstraff är det ALLTID Saudiarabierna media attackerar. Den internationella statistiken:

1. China (1,000s *see above)	4. Iraq (61+)
2. Iran (289+)	5. United States (35)
3. Saudi Arabia (90+)	6. Sudan (23+)

men det är ALLTID Saudiarabien de attackerar. Iran vill man ju shoppa hos så dem får man inte tala illa om och så de får mer pengar till kärnvapenforskning och -produktion mot Israel. Gillar inte Wahlström saudierna, eller vad?

†EU †Mogherini †mediakritik †Antisemitism †Israel. .........

Saudier smyger sig närmare Israel.

Talal och saudisk prinsessa. Inte heltäckande slöja precis.

Detta är en saudisk prins som har tagit konsekvenserna av det nya samarbetet med Israel för att skydda sig mot Iran och USAs förkärlek för mullorna. Jag skrev innan om honom på länk. Den 1000-åriga kampen mellan sunni och shia kan du se mer om på länk. Prinsen säger öppet att om palaraberna börjar bråka står han på Israels sida. Oj vilket liv det hade blivit i palarabernas systerfolk i Sverige!

Maktkampen fortsätter i de svenska flyktinglägren självklart. Myndigheterna har inte den blekaste aning om varför.

Saudi Prince: I Side with Israel – Not the Palestinians

Oct 28, 2015

Taking into account regional upheaval and changes throughout the Middle East, billionaire Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal says his country should work with Israel to contend with the Iranian threat. Significantly, and rare for a Saudi to admit in public, he emphasized that if the Palestinians launch another uprising, he will side with Israel.

Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal has stated that in the event of another Palestinian Intifada (uprising) against Israel he would side with the Jewish State, saying that “Saudi Arabia has reached a political maturity to constitute a durable alliance with the Jewish nation.”

“I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada and I shall exert all my influence to break any ominous Arab initiatives set to condemn Tel Aviv, because I deem the Arab-Israeli entente and future friendship necessary to impede the Iranian dangerous encroachment,” Al Qabas quotes the Saudi media tycoon as saying.

The Saudi Prince and entrepreneur posited that his country must reconsider its regional commitments and devise a new strategy to combat Iran’s increasing influence in Gulf States by forging a defense pact with Tel Aviv to deter any possible Iranian moves in the light of unfolding developments in the Syria and Moscow’s military intervention, the Kuwaiti Al Qabas daily reports according to AWD News.

“The whole Middle-East dispute is tantamount to matter of life and death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from my vantage point ,and I know that Iranians seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the Palestinian card, hence to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster their relations and form a united front to stymie Tehran’s ambitious agenda,” Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted Prince al-Waleed as saying on Tuesday , adding that Riyadh and Tel Aviv must achieve a modus vivendi, for Saudi policy in regard to Arab-Israeli crisis is no longer acceptable.

Iran seeks to buttress its presence in the Mediterranean by supporting the Assad regime in Syria, added Prince al-Waleed, but to the chagrin of Riyadh and its sister Gulf sheikhdoms, Putin’s Russia has become a real co-belligerent force in Syrian 4-year-old civil war by attacking CIA-trained Islamist rebels. Here surfaces the paramount importance of Saudi-Israeli nexus to frustrate the Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis.

There have been several reports over the past years of secret Saudi-Israel relations, and specifically on military and intelligence issues. The recent nuclear deal with Iran has led Saudi officials and leaders tovoice support of regional cooperation with Israel.

†Saudiarabien †Barack Hussein †Iran †Antisemitism †Israel. .........

Obama irriterad över Israels och Saudiarabiens växande samarbete.

Obama förstås irriterad över allt han inte kontrollerar själv, han har väl inte upptäckt att han inte har långt kvar.

US concerned as Saudi Arabia, Israel team up against common foe Iran

BY SALMAN RAFI on SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 in ASIA TIMES NEWS & FEATURES,MIDDLE EAST


The much expected visit of King Salman to the U.S. came at a time when the US-Saudi ties are at a low ebb in the otherwise ‘happy history’ of their bi-lateral relations.

†Barack Hussein †Gulfstaterna †Antisemitism †Israel. .........

England tar av sin utlandshjälp för att bekosta hjälp till syriska flyktingar.

England tar av utlandshjälpen, Sverige stjäl av pensionärernas pengar.

UK to use foreign aid money to pay for housing Syrian refugees                     

†Illegal invandring †England . .........

Kvinnor får rösträtt i Saudiarabien.

Saudierna mjuknar långsamt långsamt. Man undrar om något påverkas av att de är tvingade att samarbeta med Israel mot teamet Iran/Obongon.  Blir det något öppnare påverkar det nog många andra saker också. Liksom samarbetet med Egypten, med Sisis berömda (utanför Sverige) Nyårstal mot den grövsta islamismen.

Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Run in Local Elections

Saudi Arabia allows women to register to stand in local elections for the first time.

By Ben Ariel
First Publish: 8/31/2015, 2:42 AM



Muslim veil
Flash 90


Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, a historic first for the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, AFP reports.

In a country where women face a host of restrictions, including a driving ban, the move was welcomed as an important step forward.

At the same time, noted AFP, it also faced criticism from hardline conservatives and rights groups who said it does not go far enough in providing women with equal rights.

The moves comes after another first earlier this month, when women started to register as voters for the December local elections at centers run by all-female staff, separate from registration facilities for Saudi males.

Women in the oil-rich Gulf state, which applies a strict segregation of the sexes, are banned from driving and have to cover themselves in public from head to toe.

They also have to obtain the consent of a male guardian to travel, work, apply for a passport or to marry.

The driving ban is perhaps the most notorious. Activists have launched a campaign against the ban and have encouraged women to post pictures of themselves driving on Twitter under the hashtag #IWillDriveMyself, as well as on Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp.

Many women have driven since the campaign was launched in 2011, some of them have posted videos of them doing so, and many have been arrested and forced to sign a pledge that they will never drive again.

In recent years there have been several minor examples of women receiving more rights: For example, last year it was announced that the SaudiGazette had appointed a female editor, a first in the kingdom. The news of the first female newspaper editor in the kingdom followed an announcement about the first female lawyer in Saudi Arabia.

Nevertheless, a study in November 2013 found Saudi Arabia has the third worst women's rights in the Arab world.

Despite all this, Saudi Arabia won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, along with other countries with questionable human rights records, including China, Russia, Algeria, Cuba and Vietnam.

†Saudiarabien †Egypten †Antisemitism †Israel. .........

DN: "En avrättning varannan dag i Saudiarabien"

Illa det. (Ca 356/2 = 178/år Men.....

Iran: 27 executions in past week
27x52=1404/år

2 Baluchi men hanged in southern Iran prison

Executions come swiftly and often in Iran's 'justice' system

Iran: 14 Executions, 3 Carried Out in Public


NCRI: Human rights deteriorate in Iran after nuclear deal

Wikin




Vad som är helt klart är DN:s stora intresse för att sätta åt Saudiarabia jämfört med deras undvikande att nämna något negativt om Iran, där brott mot mänskliga rättigheter är mycket större. För att inte störa EUs frenetiska shoppande med terrorstaten? Efter utrikesblondinens hat mot saudierna?

†Saudiarabien   †Iran †Israel. .........

Egypten och Saudiarabien överens på ett antal punkter.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt sign “Cairo Declaration” boosting wide-ranging ties

Agreement includes plans to create joint Arab military force, define maritime boundaries, and increase economic cooperation

A handout picture provided by the Office of the Egyptian Presidency on July 30, 2015 shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (R) speaking with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed Bin Salman during a military academy graduation ceremony in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. (AFP Photo/Ahmed Fuad/HO/ Egyptian Presidency)

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement which they have dubbed the “Cairo Declaration,” aiming to boost ties across several sectors, a statement from the Egyptian president’s office said on Thursday.

The agreement, signed during a visit by Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed Bin Salman to Cairo, aims to increase military, economic, and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

As part of the declaration, Riyadh and Cairo have agreed to work together to create a joint Arab military force. They will also begin the process of formally defining maritime borders between both countries along the Red Sea, the statement said.

Both sides will also increase mutual investments in the energy, electricity, and transport sectors and have promised to strengthen economic integration.

A number of joint cultural and media projects between both countries have also been agreed, which will aim to counter what the statement said were increasing efforts to destabilize the region politically and culturally.

During the visit on Thursday Prince Mohammed met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and later attended a graduation ceremony for cadets at Egypt’s Military Academy.

President Sisi said Prince Mohammed’s visit and the signing of the declaration came at a crucial time for both countries and the region as a whole.

“At this current period which the Arab world is facing, we need to work together, because the threats are many, and we will not overcome them unless we work together. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the two pillars of Arab national security, and together we can confront these challenges,” Sisi said.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir accompanied Prince Mohammed during the visit and on Thursday met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shokry.

Speaking at a press conference following the meeting, Jubeir said there was a real desire from both countries “to boost and intensify the bilateral, strategic, and historic ties” between them.

He added that the new declaration would take relations between both countries “to a new level.”

Relations between Riyadh and Cairo have strengthened since 2013 when the army, then headed by Sisi, ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Mursi following mass protests against his one-year rule.

The Brotherhood is banned in Saudi Arabia and several other Gulf countries and Egypt declared the group a terrorist organization in December 2013 following a series of attacks targeting security and military personnel which authorities said were linked to the Brotherhood.

†Saudiarabien †Egypten  †Islamister †Israel. .........

Saudierna räknade fel, snart bankrupta.

Saudiarabien och OPEC försökte sälja billigare än amerikansk skifferolja men har misslyckats totalt. Saudierna har inte utvecklat nån industri och har inget att sälja.

Analyst: Soon to be Broke Saudis 'Fooled Themselves' on Oil

A gambit by Saudi Arabia to break the back of its oil competition has fallen flat on its face, a respected UK analyst said Wednesday.

By Yaakov Levi
First Publish: 8/6/2015, 9:48 AM


Oil rig (illustration)



A gambit by Saudi Arabia to break the back of its oil competition – the North American shale oil business – has fallen flat on its face, a respected UK analyst said Wednesday. As a result, Saudi Arabia and OPEC face a bleak economic future, according to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. “If the oil futures market is correct,” Pritchard wrote in the Daily Telegraph Wednesday. “Saudi Arabia will start running into trouble within two years. It will be in existential crisis by the end of the decade.”

That crisis will gravely affect not just Saudi Arabia, Israelis analysts said, but also the clients of what had until now been the Sunni Muslim “money machine” that funded projects the world over for the advancement of Arab and Muslim causes. Among the biggest victims is likely to be the Palestinian Authority, which has been a major recipient of aid from the Saudi government and Gulf oil moguls.

Oil prices started to slip late last year, after the Saudis continually pumped up production, despite a worldwide glut. Prices fell, but still Saudi – and eventually OPEC – production was not cut, or even increased, to the point where oil now regularly trades in the area of $50 a barrel, a third of its price just a few years ago.

Analysts believed that the Saudi strategy was to “starve” the American shale oil industry, which has emerged as a major competitor to OPEC oil. Thanks to shale production and new oil well discoveries, the U.S. this year became the world's leading oil producer.

However, shale oil, the Saudis believed, could not be produced profitably at rates below $60-$70 a barrel – and if oil were to be maintained at prices like that, they believed, the U.S. shale producers would shut down, leaving OPEC once again the “kings” of the international oil market, and its prices.

But Riyadh was wrong, said Pritchard. “If the aim was to choke the US shale industry, the Saudis have misjudged badly, just as they misjudged the growing shale threat at every stage for eight years,” he wrote. “The problem for the Saudis is that US shale frackers are not high-cost. They are mostly mid-cost. Advanced pad drilling techniques allow frackers to launch five or ten wells in different directions from the same site. Smart drill-bits with computer chips can seek out cracks in the rock. New dissolvable plugs promise to save $300,000 a well.”

Pritchard quoted a Saudi oil expert as admitting that the policy has failed. “The policy hasn't worked and it will never work,” the expert said – but according to Pritchard, it's too late to change things. “OPEC now faces a permanent headwind. Each rise in price will be capped by a surge in US output. Saudi Arabia is effectively beached. It relies on oil for 90pc of its budget revenues. There is no other industry to speak of, a full fifty years after the oil bonanza began.”

The implications of this situation will be profound, he wrote. “The government can slash investment spending for a while - as it did in the mid-1980s - but in the end it must face draconian austerity. It cannot afford to prop up Egypt and maintain an exorbitant political patronage machine across the Sunni world.

“Social spending is the glue that holds together a medieval Wahhabi regime at a time of fermenting unrest among the Shia minority of the Eastern Province, pin-prick terrorist attacks from ISIS, and blowback from the invasion of Yemen. Diplomatic spending is what underpins the Saudi sphere of influence caught in a Middle East version of Europe's Thirty Year War, and still reeling from the after-shocks of a crushed democratic revolt.”

The Saudis, he added “took a huge gamble last November when they stopped supporting prices and opted instead to flood the market and drive out rivals, boosting their own output to 10.6m barrels a day (b/d) into the teeth of the downturn. Bank of America says OPEC is now 'effectively dissolved.' The cartel might as well shut down its offices in Vienna to save money.”

†Saudiarabien †OPEC   †Israel. .........

Hur reagerar Saudiarabien på Obamas vansinnesavtal?

Iran firar avtal.

Saudi-Iranian understanding key to nuclear deal's success

Iran's July 14 signing of a nuclear treaty has reduced the historic strain between Iran and the West, but it cannot be expected to foster peace without broad consideration of other players in the region, particularly the Sunni Arab axis.

Summary⎙ Print The nuclear deal should be a prelude to major coordination between Saudi Arabia and Iran if it is to help bring about peace in the region.

Author Ali Mamouri Posted July 24, 2015

Translator: Joelle El-Khoury

Saudierna backar Israel om Obamas vansinnesavtal med Iran.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman backs Israel over Iran nuclear deal concerns

Saudi monarch raises questions about verification and sanction "snap-back" mechanism in meeting with US defence secretary even while saying he welcomes agreement



U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter , left, meets with Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, right, at the Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah Photo: Carolyn Kaster




By Robert Tait, Jerusalem and Peter Foster, Washington

7:37PM BST 22 Jul 2015

King Salman of Saudi Arabia voiced misgivings about the Iran nuclear deal to Ashton Carter, the visiting US defence secretary, on Wednesday, as the battle for hearts and minds over this month's agreement moved from the Middle East to Washington.

Mr Carter, on a mission to sell the July 14 accord to America's Middle Eastern allies, said the Saudi monarch had expressed reservations even while ostensibly welcoming it when they met in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.

It was the second day running Mr Carter had listened to allied concerns about the agreement thrashed out in Vienna, which lifts a catalogue of crippling sanctions against Iran in exchange for its theocratic rulers accepting strict limits on the country's nuclear programme.

The Pentagon chief on Tuesday met Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who has denounced the deal as a "historic mistake" and rejected the Obama administration's offers of beefed-up military aid as "compensation" in favour of fighting it in the US congress.

The Israeli leader declined to respond to President Barack Obama's offer to boost Israel's offensive and defensive capabilities when the two spoke in the immediate aftermath of the deal last week, Haaretz newspaper reported, lest it be interpreted as tacit acceptance of the agreement.

Mr Netanyahu and Mr Carter dispensed with the normal protocol of public statements at their Jerusalem meeting- reportedly at the request of the US delegation, according to one Israeli official.

King Salman, who inherited the Saudi throne in January, expressed doubt about the nuclear deal's verification process, as well as questioning the "snap-back" mechanism for re-imposing sanctions if Iran violated its terms, Mr Carter told reporters.

"Those are the same issues that we know will arise" during the agreement's implementation, said the defence secretary, who also announced that the king had been invited to Washington to meet Mr Obama.

Saudi Arabia's Sunni leadership regards mainly Shia Iran as its main regional adversary. The two countries are directly opposed in armed conflicts in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere.

Mr Netanyahu has alluded to Saudi concerns in his repeated denunciations of the deal, which he amplified on Wednesday in a speech to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, honouring Matteo Renzi, the visiting Italian prime minister.

"In Israel and in many countries in the Middle East, there is broad agreement – this is a bad agreement that must be opposed," he said.

Israel intensified its lobbying offensive to torpedo the deal in the US Congress when Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to Washington and Mr Netanyahu's close confidant, met between 30 and 40 Republicans from the House of Representatives.

The Israeli envoy emphasised Iran's supposed untrustworthiness, according to those present. "It's not so much what was on the table, it's who was on the other side of the table," Trent Franks, a Republican, said of Mr Dermer's message.

The White House launched a counter lobbying exercise, with John Kerry, the US secretary state, visiting Capitol Hill on Wednesday along with Edward Moniz, the energy secretary, and Jack Lew, the treasury secretary.

John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, said it would do "everything possible" to block the deal.

"Members of Congress will ask much tougher questions this afternoon when we meet with the president's team, and because a bad deal threatens the security of the American people, we're going to do everything possible to stop it," he said.

†Barack Hussein †Saudiarabien 

†Iran †Antisemitism †Israel. .........

Obama har fört Saudierna och Israel närmare, ISIS för Hamas och Saudierna närmare.

Hamas, Saudis to Work Together Against ISIS?

There's no love lost between Hamas and Saudi Arabia, but a common enemy may bring the two together.


By Yaakov Levi
First Publish: 7/16/2015, 10:22 AM

Hamas and Saudi Arabia may have their disagreements on Iran but a common enemy could bring the two together.

On Thursday, reports said that Hamas top terrorist Khaled Mashaal was on a three day visit to Riyadh to meet  top Saudi officials, where they will discuss the threat Islamic State poses to each.

ISIS has threatened Hamas numerous times, claiming it is not “Islamic enough” because it has failed to impose shari'a Koranic law on Gaza.

The terror organization has also threatened Saudi Arabia because, despite its Wahhabi fundamentalist version of Islam, it too is not deemed sufficiently loyal to the teachings of the religion.

Saudi Arabia has supported the US-led coalition bombing ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, but the Saudis are interested in raising an army that will fight against ISIS directly – and Hamas could supply the personnel needed,analysts said.

The decision to reengage with Hamas was made personally by King Salman Abd el-Aziz, despite misgivings over the move because of Iran's support of the group. Another reason for those misgivings has been Saudi Arabia's opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is an offshoot.

The Saudis have also sought recently to lower the tension between Hamas and Egypt.

Egypt just removed Hamas from its list of terror groups, despite the fact that Hamas, Cairo believes, is actively supporting the Islamists in Sinai who have been attempting to take over the peninsula.

†Hamas  †Saudiarabia †Egypten  †ISIS †Antisemitism †Israel. .........