Saudi, Israel backing terror to Balkanize Mideast: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Ken O’Keefe, a former US marine from London, and Jihad Mouracadeh, a Middle East expert from Beirut, about the unholy Tel Aviv-Riyadh alliance, which was further exposed after Israeli military intelligence chief Herzi Halevi publicly praised Riyadh for its aggressive polices towards Iran.
O’Keefe says Saudi Arabia and Israel are working hand in glove to support the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, an al-Qaeda offshoot. He adds Qatar and some other Persian Gulf states are funding the Takfiri outfit as well.
He adds that the Tel Aviv regime pursues its “agenda of greater Israel” and tries to Balkanize the Middle East using the Takfiri militants.
Saudi Arabia is also “feeding the Balkanization policy” in Syria and Iraq, says the analyst, adding that the kingdom “is nothing but a stooge for the West.”
Elsewhere in his comments, he described the so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue as a “disaster” for the Palestinian nation.
The Riyadh regime “could have been helping the Palestinians rebuild Gaza” or using its influence to reopen the border between Gaza and Egypt instead of supporting such a solution, which is in fact worse than the original Nakbah, O’Keefe says.
Mouracadeh, for his part, praises Saudi Arabia for making efforts to broker “peace” between Israelis and Palestinians.
Riyadh and its other Arab allies believe Iran is a threat against their interests in regional countries.
The analyst points to the Saudi anger over last year’s nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, saying the rulers in Riyadh felt threatened by Iran, and that is why they joined hands with Israel in attempts to counter the Islamic Republic.
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