US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have supported Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in order to avert the possible collapse of the Saudi government, according to an Israeli political analyst.
In an article, titled “Trump’s Decision to Stand by Saudi Prince Has Netanyahu’s Fingerprints on It” on Friday, Haaretz columnist Amos Harel wrote that Israelis and Americans are concerned that “an attempt to remove the crown prince could topple his government.”
“The collapse of the Gadhafi regime in 2011 flooded the Middle East with weapons looted from the Libyan dictator’s arsenals. If Libya was a boutique, Saudi Arabia is a huge supermarket of advanced weapons systems – which in the wrong hands are also a major threat to Israel,” he added.
While speaking with Israeli journalists at a summit in Bulgaria in early November, Netanyahu…