{"id":322415,"date":"2017-08-20T02:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T01:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=322415"},"modified":"2018-05-15T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:27:07","slug":"saudi-israeli-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/saudi-israeli-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saudi-Israeli Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Two of the U.S. government\u2019s supposed allies are supposedly not allies of each other but enemies of each other, but, away from the glare of the \u2018news\u2019media, they actually work together with each other to control, by means of their secret actual alliance with one-another, a substantial, if not the major<\/i>, part of U.S. foreign policies \u2014 especially regarding Iran, Russia, Syria, Israel, Palestinians, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Turkey, but much else besides. These two secret allies of each other, who largely determine U.S. foreign policies, are the Saud family, and the government of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is a fundamentalist-Sunni dictatorship in which the royal Saud family actually own the country including its oil company, which is the world\u2019s largest, and in which country the nation\u2019s center of its Shia population is bombed to smithereens if and when that ruling family\u2019s appointed king gets the whim to do so, which he recently did<\/span><\/a> (and see this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a>, so it\u2019s a common occurrence there) \u2014 but the U.S. press doesn\u2019t even report it, because \u2018Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel is the apartheid regime of official Jews against official Palestinians (non-Jewish native Arabs in that land), and it’s ruled on behalf of U.S. and American billionaires, some of whom aren\u2019t even Jewish themselves but merely far-rightwing American billionaires (some of whom call themselves liberals, even while they support their own selective type of racism). Those billionaires (regardless of their religion) own the \u2018news\u2019media and most of the successful politicians, not only in Israel, but also in America. Some of them have dual citizenships, they\u2019re citizens simultaneously in both countries \u2014 something that shouldn\u2019t even be allowed, anywhere, because it means, by definition, split loyalties, which makes any such person an alien agent; and any refusal by such a person to cancel the other citizenship ought to be taken to constitute a hostile act. Every nation has legitimate national-security concerns \u2014 especially when a dual citizen is a billionaire and consequently far more powerful than a mere regular citizen is: the billionaire can buy favorable press-coverage for any political agent he chooses.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saud family and the Israeli government are deep allies of one-another, especially because both of them aim to conquer or destroy the Shia nation of Iran and Shia Muslims in general, such as in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The alliance between the Saud family and the Israeli government has an enormous impact shaping U.S. foreign policies toward Iran and toward any ally of Iran such as Syria, and even toward allies of allies of Iran, such as Russia (which is allied with Syria)<\/span><\/a>. Also affected, but to a lesser extent, are U.S. policies regarding allies and enemies of the countries that are within the circle of those nations of first concern; for example, Pakistan is very tightly allied with Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>, while in the neighboring and increasingly fundamentalist-Hindu nation India, \u201ceducated, well off\/cultured Hindus are falling easy victims to Islamophobia\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and, as a result, \u201ccivil war for a Muslim-free India\u201d is drawing closer, so that, even if today\u2019s tensions between Pakistan and India don\u2019t produce a war between those two, India could become more favorable toward Shiite Iran, because most of India\u2019s Muslims are Sunnis<\/span><\/a> and thus are favorably inclined toward Saud-allied<\/span><\/a> Pakistan, where the relatively few (Pew estimates at only 6% of Pakistan\u2019s Muslims are) Shiites have commonly complained of persecution that\u2019s by, or permitted by, the government<\/span><\/a>. Thus, the internal Muslim, Sunni-v-Shiite, competition, has intensified not only Russia-v-U.S. tensions, but also India-v-Pakistan tensions. And, so, when the nation of Saudi Arabia was created in 1744 by an eternal pact between the Saud family and the Wahhab clergy to eliminate Shia Islam<\/span><\/a>, that aggressive intent exists today, and is now clearly being spread even outside the Islamic world, and so it affects big-power relations, especially between U.S. and Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and the Israeli aristocracy who control Israel\u2019s government, are obsessive in their shared hatred of Iran. (The origins and reasons behind those hatreds are vastly different in Israel than in the Saud family<\/span><\/a>, but the hatreds have the same target: Shia. This shared obsession is sufficient in order to unite them.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saud family have one essential tool to control the U.S. federal government, and it’s their ally Israel\u2019s government, which controls the U.S. government to do everything possible to weaken if not obliterate Iran. Whereas European nations aren\u2019t rabidly anti-Iranian, the U.S. government is, and one big reason for that is Israel\u2019s control over the U.S. Congress, and over most of America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media.<\/span><\/p>\n

The control of the U.S. government that’s exercised by Israel\u2019s government has been amply demonstrated in many ways:<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1967, Israel unprovokedly attacked the USS Liberty, slaughtering 34 of our sailors and injuring 172 others; here, with my emphasized parts highlighted in boldface<\/b>, is an excerpt from the long-suppressed official investigation into it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crec\/2004\/10\/11\/CREC-2004-10-11-pt1-PgE1886-3.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FINDINGS OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE USS \u2018\u2018LIBERTY\u2019\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

1. That on June 8, 1967, <\/i>after eight hours of aerial surveillance, Israel launched a two-hour air and naval attack against the USS Liberty, the world\u2019s most sophisticated intelligence ship<\/i><\/b>, inflicting 34 dead and 172 wounded American servicemen (a casualty rate of seventy percent, in a crew of 294); <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2. That the Israeli air attack lasted approximately 25 minutes, during which time <\/i>unmarked Israeli aircraft dropped napalm canisters on the Liberty\u2019s bridge, and fired 30mm cannons and rockets into our ship<\/i><\/b>, causing 821 holes, more than 100 of which were rocket-size; survivors estimate 30 or more sorties were flown over the ship by a minimum of 12 attacking Israeli planes which were jamming all five American emergency radio channels; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

3. That the torpedo boat attack involved not only the firing of torpedoes, but the machine-gunning of the Liberty\u2019s firefighters and stretcher-bearers as they struggled to save their ship and crew; the <\/i>Israeli torpedo boats later returned to machine-gun at close range three of the Liberty\u2019s life rafts that had been lowered into the water by survivors to rescue the most seriously wounded<\/i><\/b>; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

4. That there is compelling evidence that Israel\u2019s attack was a <\/i>deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill her entire crew<\/i><\/b>; evidence of such intent is supported by statements from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Undersecretary of State George Ball, former CIA director Richard Helms, former NSA directors Lieutenant General William Odom, USA (Ret.), Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.), and Marshal Carter; former NSA deputy directors Oliver Kirby and Major General John Morrison, USAF (Ret.); and former Ambassador Dwight Porter, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon in 1967; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

5. That in attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed <\/i>acts of murder against American servicemen and an act of war against the United States<\/i><\/b>; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

6. That fearing conflict with Israel, <\/i>the White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of the Liberty<\/i><\/b> by recalling Sixth Fleet military rescue support while the ship was under attack; evidence of the recall of rescue aircraft is supported by statements of Captain Joe Tully, Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, and Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, the Sixth Fleet carrier division commander, at the time of the attack; never before in American naval history has a rescue mission been cancelled when an American ship was under attack; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

7. That although the Liberty was saved from almost certain destruction through the heroic efforts of the ship\u2019s Captain, William L. McGonagle (MOH), and his brave crew, <\/i>surviving crewmembers were later threatened with \u2018\u2018court-martial, imprisonment or worse\u2019\u2019 if they exposed the truth; and were abandoned by their own government<\/i><\/b>; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

8. That due to the influence of Israel\u2019s powerful supporters in the United States, <\/i>the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this attack from the American people<\/i><\/b>; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

9. That due to continuing pressure by the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, <\/i>this attack remains the only serious naval incident that has never been thoroughly investigated by Congress; to this day, no surviving crewmember has been permitted to officially and publicly testify about the attack<\/i><\/b>; <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

10. That there has been <\/i>an official cover-up without precedent in American naval history<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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On 30 September 2016, I headlined “Why Does U.S. Gov\u2019t. Donate $38B to an Enemy Nation?\u201d<\/span><\/a> and provided my answer to that title-question. But, regardless, the fact is that the U.S. government\u2019s subservience to the government of Israel is recognized by some Americans, and it\u2019s acceptable to most Americans, since there is no well-funded organized movement in the U.S. to oust from Congress all of the Senators and Representatives who have voted for the continuation of America\u2019s formerly $3 billion-per-year and now $3.8 billion-per-year annual donation to that apartheid enemy nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 15 August 2017, Philip Giraldi<\/span><\/a> at unz dot com, headlined \u201cIsrael’s Chorus Sings Again: Less than total loyalty to Israel is un-American\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and he opened:<\/span><\/p>\n

Congress is on a one-month summer recess. You would think that given the recent turmoil over the bill to eliminate Obamacare and the upcoming debate over tax policy the nation\u2019s legislators would be back in their home districts talking to the voters. Some are, but many are not. \u201cMore than fifty\u201d Congressmen are off on an all-expenses paid trip to Israel to demonstrate that \u201cthere is no stronger bond with any ally we have.\u201d Yes indeed, a congress which cannot pass legislation to benefit the American people finds that it has only one voice when it comes to our troublesome little client state that also doubles as the leading recipient of U.S. tax dollars in the world.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

How do they do it? They do it by relentless courting of the congress critters and media talking heads, all of whom know how to repay a favor. Some readers might be asking how Congress (spouses included) can accept these free trips from a foreign government? The current trip is estimated to be costing $10,000 per person. Well, the answer is that they can\u2019t do it directly, which would be illegal, so the clever rascals at the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have created an \u201ccharitable\u201d foundation that pays the bills. It\u2019s called the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF). AIEF is a tax exempt 501(c)3 foundation that had income of more than $80 million in 2015. As it is tax exempt that means that its activities are, in effect, being subsidized by the U.S. Treasury so the congressmen are being \u201ccharitably educated\u201d while they are also being wined and dined and propagandized in part on the taxpayers\u2019 dime. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

If this were instead a Saud-run working vacation for members of the U.S. Congress, it would be far more repulsive to America\u2019s voters than it is when Israel\u2019s government does this. Whereas America\u2019s old right, like the KKK, have knee-jerk hatred of Jews, America\u2019s new right, like Southern Baptists and the rest of America\u2019s fundamentalist Christians, support Israel because \u2018God gave it to the Jews\u2019. Plus, most Jews are likewise knee-jerk supporters of Israel\u2019s government against Palestinians. And, most liberals also have been that, because Jews generally are voters for Democratic Party candidates. Thus, a huge solid political base exists in the U.S. for continuation of the U.S. government\u2019s donations to, and alliance with, the government of Israel, notwithstanding Israel\u2019s slaughter of America\u2019s sailors on the USS Liberty, and the treason of Israel\u2019s spy in America Jonathan Pollard<\/span><\/a>, and any other warring by Israel against the U.S. But it doesn\u2019t exist for continuation of the U.S. government\u2019s alliance with the Sauds. The Saud family is the wealthiest on the planet.<\/span><\/a> They can afford to pay \u2014 in favors if not in cash \u2014 for Israel\u2019s government to carry their PR water in Washington DC. Thus: Israel does the lobbying and PR work for the foreign policies of the Saud family, in Washington, and the Palestinians obtain an outsized proportion of their Muslim support from Shia Muslims instead of from Sunni Muslims<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back on 21 August 2012, the New York Times<\/i> headlined \u201cSkinny-Dipping in Israel Casts Unwanted Spotlight on Congressional Travel\u201d<\/span><\/a>. Little has changed, except that a Republican is the President now, and a Democrat was the President then. In foreign policies, the U.S. President does whatever the U.S. and Israeli billionaires allow him to do, and that doesn\u2019t change much over the decades \u2014 say, ever since 1967, at least. Americans are sympathetic to the apartheid racist nation of Israel, but not to the outright dictatorship of Saudi Arabia. So: the excuses to overthrow Iran\u2019s government are in line with Israel\u2019s stated fears against Iran but not with the Sauds\u2019 stated fears against Iran<\/span><\/a>. Israel\u2019s government is thus the front-man in the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the Sauds\u2019 side of this Israel-Saud control of the U.S. government, that control is practiced almost entirely behind-the-scenes. But it\u2019s just as real. Their attacks against the United States included the ones on 9\/11<\/span><\/a>, which however relied heavily upon inside participation by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as well as by a few others in the U.S. government at the time<\/span><\/a> \u2014 but the U.S. government has consistently blocked this information from reaching the U.S. public. The Sauds control the foreign policies of the United States government even more than does the government of Israel, and much more quietly, because the Sauds have virtually unlimited wealth at their disposal.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The coup de gras<\/i> of all this, is that Iran \u2014 the nation that the U.S. aristocracy raped in 1953<\/span><\/a> and that both the Sauds and Israel want to destroy \u2014 is the nation (and the only nation) that in U.S. courts has been blamed for having been behind the 9\/11 attacks and has been fined $10.5 billion to restitute victims of the 9\/11 attacks, which Iran wasn\u2019t at all involved with<\/span><\/a> and which was a 100% Sunni operation (but with inside help from a few American insiders \u2014 none of them Shia).<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, as I documented in my 20 July 2016 \u201c9\/11: Bush\u2019s Guilt, And The \u201928 Pages\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a> Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, who was the family\u2019s man-in-Washington for decades and personally close to the Bush family as well as to Zbigniew Brezinski and many other leading U.S. neoconservatives, was, as Sharmine Narwani documented in her 28 August 2013 \u201cBandar ibn Israel\u201d<\/span><\/a>, known to the U.S. government at least as early as 2007, to be the family\u2019s chief tie between the governments of U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia, by which he personally coordinated the Saud-Israel agenda, and Bandar was assigned by King Saud in 2011 to lead the Saudi Intelligence Agency in order to coordinate the Saud-U.S.-Israel \u2018Arab Spring\u2019 \u2018revolution\u2019 to bring tens of thousands of jihadists from around the world into Syria in order to achieve the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.<\/span><\/p>\n

These things might seem impossible, at least in the view of almost all Americans, whose \u2018news\u2019 that we read, see, and hear, doesn\u2019t include much, if any, of these facts. But they\u2019re not just true, they\u2019re easy to explain, once one recognizes that the U.S. isn\u2019t a democracy but a dictatorship<\/span><\/a>. And, of course, being a dictatorship, our press doesn\u2019t report to the public such facts, as that the Sauds (in conjunction with U.S. insiders) did the 9\/11 attacks<\/span><\/a>, and that in 1967, Israel intentionally targeted and attacked the USS Liberty and almost succeeded at sinking it, and that all of this has been covered-up by the U.S. President at the time, and by all subsequent U.S. Administrations. Facts such as these, indicate what type of bipartisan dictatorship this country really is, which is the sort of information that such a dictatorship would most prohibit its public from knowing \u2014 much less, from understanding. But it\u2019s all documented, right here, in the links, and in the links within the links, in this article. And that\u2019s just some<\/i> of the evidence for it. (There is much more.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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