Robert Parry: A Showdown for War or Peace (Saudis and Israel vs US and Russia)

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/266-32/20351-a-showdown-for-war-or-peace

n pressing for negotiated settlements to the Iranian nuclear dispute and the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama is challenging the imposing lobbying, propaganda and financial clout of the new Saudi-Israeli alliance, with the future direction of U.S. foreign policy - and geopolitical stability - at stake.

Already, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling the strings of his media and congressional marionettes, creating opposition to Obama's diplomatic initiatives. Meanwhile, the Saudi monarchy has gone to unprecedented lengths to register its disapproval of Obama's peace initiatives, even rejecting a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The Saudis also have made sounds about possibly acquiring their own nuclear bomb from Pakistan, which developed the Bomb during the Reagan-Bush-41 administrations with the help of Saudi financing.

Citing "a senior NATO decision maker," Mark Urban, diplomatic editor for BBC's "Newsnight," described "intelligence reporting that nuclear weapons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery." Urban also noted that "Last month Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, told a conference in Sweden that if Iran got the bomb, 'the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring.'"

Urban added that these warnings about the imminent Saudi possession of a nuclear weapon were emanating from Israel, possibly to add pressure on Obama to fall into line and join a military airstrike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. It's interesting that Israel would side with

Saudi Arabia seeing how one would believe them to be more adversaries than allies, but I guess their hatred of the Persians makes friendship a common goal; even if short lived.