Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 12/01/2010 by Juan Cole
Wikileaks Quote of the Day:
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Paris, February 8, 2010:
“… the Saudis always want to ‘fight the Iranians to the last American…’ “
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Get ready for a rocky 2011 thanks to the Israelis and their insistance that the US bomb Iran. If this happens oil will soar to several hundred dollars per barrel. Say goodbye to any economic recovery. I just bet those guys over at AIPAC are purchasing oil futures. As Rahm Emmanuel said, “Always take advantage of a crisis!”
Isn’t that the Israeli plan too.
What the saudis have really done is to fight the arabs to the last American, be it in Morocco or in Palestine or in Iraq, and now in Yemen.
Iranian influence in the Gulf Area goes back hundreds of years. Saudi Arabia knows the Iranian populations inhabiting Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Eastern Saudi, UAE, Oman, be they Sunni Iranian or Shia Iranian. Much of the Gulf economy is held by massive rich Iranian families like Kanoo and families among the Lawati in Oman.
The same can be said for Israel.