“If the Americans won’t side with Israel against Iran, what is the chance they will side with us?” wonders prominent Arab journalist, Mohammed al-Yahya, former editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab, Saudi-owned news network Al-Arabiya.
IsraelToday That al-Yahya penned his op-ed not for a major American publication, but for The Jerusalem Post already tells you that the Arabs are looking to diversify their alliances, and see in Israel as worthy a partner as any other to whom to air their grievances. The prominent Arab journalist said that while the White House still fails to fully comprehend what’s happening, the Arab states on the Persian Gulf see themselves in the throws of a “divorce.”
At the heart of the Biden administration’s zeal for the Iran deal is a personal vendetta against his predecessor, Donald Trump. That vendetta, along with internal political squabbling, also led to the delisting of the Tehran-backed Houthi militia as a terrorist group in early 2021 — reversing the Trump administration’s laudable action before he left office. In response, the Houthis, who overthrew Yemen’s internationally recognized government in 2014, have ramped up their deliberate targeting of civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Instead of reconsidering its position, the Biden administration doubled down on its apparent strategy of alienating friends.
This breakup began with the previous Iran nuclear deal facilitated by former US President Barak Obama, a deal that for all its efforts to avoid such an outcome still, in the words of al-Yahya, “paves a path for Iran to a nuclear bomb.” Former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was of the same opinion, which is why he so vigorously, to the point of violating diplomatic protocol, opposed the agreement.
Former President Donald Trump’s 4 years in office and his abandonment of the dangerous Iran nuclear deal as well as the imposition of major economic sanctions on Iran, eased the minds of both Israel and the Arab Gulf states (also under threat from Iran). As soon as Biden became president, all that changed.
Now, continued al-Yahya, President Joe Biden is making the same mistake as Obama with the nuclear deal emerging from ongoing talks in Vienna. He lamented that when these concerns were raised at the recent summit in southern Israel, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did little more than “paper over the rift that the nuclear deal has created by presenting an image of regional solidarity, but the region is not deceived.”
The conclusion that the Arabs have arrived at is that the United States no longer has their back, at least not in the way that would protect them from Iranian aggression. Israel has reached much the same conclusion, even if it doesn’t say so in such explicit terms. Repeatedly have Israeli leaders said that the Jewish state can ultimately rely only upon itself for its defense.
It is Israel’s realization in this regard that has the Arabs better understanding where the US really stands, and that they too should start seeking other, or at least additional, allies, including Israel. “If the Americans won’t side with Israel against Iran, what’s the chance they will side with us?” wondered al-Yahya.
He wrote such in regards not only to the dangerous nuclear agreement, but also in response to the oddly feeble American reaction to an Iranian missile attack on US facilities in Erbil in northern Iraq last month. The Iranians claimed the attack targeted secret Israeli installations, and the Biden Administration, at least in Arab eyes, seemed largely unconcerned, if not tacitly approving.
This comes from a foreign policy approach under which both Obama and Biden have stressed “balance” in order to maintain stability. “So, why should America’s regional allies help Washington contain Russia in Europe when Washington is strengthening Russia and Iran in the Middle East?” the Arab journalist stressed.
This is why Israel and the Western-aligned Arab states are increasingly looking to one another and to those other rising superpowers in with wake of America’s faltering. They can’t afford to do otherwise.
From March 2021:
George Soros puppet/Obama puppet Biden and his regime are on the side of every enemy of America and Israel.
The US regime seek the complete, utter total destruction of America in every way you can destroy a country.
And no one in power is doing anything about it.
It seems that the democrats are fixated on restored relations with Iran. The tremendous guilt they feel over Carter’s debacle leading to the hostage crisis drives them to kiss the feet of that regime. I cannot fathom why they care so much about a rogue state. siding with Israel and the Abraham accords would neuter and deprive the Iranians any strategic war making capabilities. Yes, there would still be terrorism, that will always be the case. However, stopping those morons from developing nuclear weapons by isolation, and strangulation makes far more sense than kissing the asses of those Komaniacs. A fifth grader has a better grasp of geopolitics than any democrat in Washington including that scmuck that stole the election.