As Obama Blinks On Syria, Israel And Saudi Arabia Make Common Cause

[Purveyor]

JERUSALEM/RIYADH: If President Barack Obama has disappointed Syrian rebels by deferring to Congress before bombing Damascus, he has also dismayed the United States' two main allies in the Middle East.

Israel and Saudi Arabia have little love for each other but both are pressing their mutual friend in the White House to hit President Bashar al-Assad hard. And both do so with one eye fixed firmly not on Syria but on their common adversary — Iran.

Israel's response to Obama's surprise move to delay or even possibly cancel air strikes made clear that connection: looking soft on Assad after accusing him of killing hundreds of people with chemical weapons may embolden his backers in Tehran to develop nuclear arms, Israeli officials said. And if they do, Israel may strike Iran alone, unsure Washington can be trusted.

Neither US ally is picking a fight with Obama in public. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the nation was "serene and self-confident"; Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal simply renewed a call to the "international community" to halt Assad's violence in Syria.

But the Saudi monarchy, though lacking Israel's readiness to attack Iran, can share the Jewish state's concern that neither may now look with confidence to Washington to curb what Riyadh sees as a drive by its Persian rival to dominate the Arab world.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/As-Obama-blinks-on-Syria-Israel-and-Saudi-Arabia-make-common-cause/articleshow/22230927.cms

[Crimson76]

1. Barack Obama, a uniter, not divider.

[Marrah_G]

2. Why don't they put their own lives on the line then

God knows we give them enough damn aid.

Leave our military out of it.

[darkangel218]

3. There will be no troops on the ground.

[doc03]

4. Why the fuck do we have to be Israel's protector? They have what

a couple hundred nukes and the best military in the middle east. If they want a fucking war
do it themselves!

[darkangel218]

6. Do you honestly belive Obama wants us to intervene because of Israel??

Wow!! Lmao!

[doc03]

9. We have been interveneing because of Israel for the last

65 years. I really don't know what Obama wants. I say if they want to
start a war do it, don't expect us to do their fighting forever.

[doc03]

10. The op says Israel is pissed because Obama isn't doing anything. I didn't say

a damn thing about Obama wanting to do anything.

[SidDithers]

5. Oh FFS...

Sid

[Scuba]

7. Spin alert: Not "mulls over", not "gives thoughts to", not "contemplates". Nope, "blinks on".

I didn't need to read any more.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. A gathering of vultures.

[Scootaloo]

11. Israel and Saudi Arabia have been buddies for a long time

Handjobs under the table, of course, but still, they're linked by being favored client states of the US.