THE RETREAT OF SAUDI ARABIA--I

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Here’s an attempt at gaining an understanding of where the harmful idiots and their antagonists stand in the Jewish Right’s Greater, New, and Improved Middle East–the one full of cluster bombs and other people’s orphaned children. One finding: the harmful idiots have succeeded in forcing Saudi Arabia to cease and desist from forging a semi-independent (from the United States) foreign policy.

SAUDI ARABIA DOES NOT LIKE SYRIA; AND SYRIA LOVES SAUDI ARABIA.

Let’s start with the recent shouting match between Saudi Arabia and Syria. The Syrian Deputy to the President recently feigned befuddlement at the paralysis of Saudi foreign policy. It’s as if (1) he had never read this blog which a good while ago had talked about the heightened antagonism between his country and Saudi Arabia; and (2) he had forgotten how beholden the Kingdom was to the harmful idiots.

About the latter: I’ve covered what I’ve considered were incrementally nastier and dirtier threats–blackmail–by the harmful idiots against the Saudi governing royal team. The blackmail went from

(1) threatening to incite the Israel-centered U.S. Congress against the Saudis, to

(2) diminishing the historic commitment by this country to protect the Saudi royal system of government to,

(3) in the end, playing dirty, likely going after the very team at the top of the Saudi government–using personal information the harmful idiots had collected over the years.

To expound: I suspect that the blackmail by the harmful idiots had gone as far as to threaten revelations. These would include all the dirt U.S. intelligence services had gathered over the years about this or that prince–not only about corruption but likely about the prince’s personal life.


Politically, the blackmail could’ve gone as far as

(4) threatening to push for more Shia representation in the Saudi government, using propaganda by satellite television and the creation of Saudi Shia opposition groups. (As with the Iraqi Sunni, the Saudis by now would’ve learned that one way to counter the attempt by the harmful idiots to dominate them fully would be to instigate a civil war–in their case, a low-intensity one which would be intensified in proportion to the pressure applied by the harmful idiots. )

The Saudis caved. The team at the top felt helpless, especially when the harmful idiots threatened revelations of matters that were personal. Prince Sultan went (or is planning to go) to Egypt. Saud al-Faisal always is heading there. What’s in Egypt? It’s not like the Egyptians have such a capable army to transfer to the Kingdom. I believe the hajj to Egypt by the Saudi royal team is in part about complaining to a trusted American vassal about the harmful idiots hitting below the belt. All it would take is for the royal team to have placed the Egyptian leadership on the payroll for these to intervene and ask that the harmful idiots refrain from going personal.


The Saudis over-reacted to the statements by the Syrian Deputy to the President. You would’ve thought that he had cursed Islam itself. He hadn’t. He was flirting with them. The Iranian-Syrian team likely sees Syria as the bridge to the Arab World. But the Saudi royal team was in no mood for flirtation. It’s nauseated. It’s made to feel the leaden weight of the American boot on top of its members’ necks. All that, while its world is foundering all around it.


SAUDI RETREAT

They had thought for a while that they had owned Lebanon, financially and politically. Rafiq al-Hariri (May God have mercy on his soul) and the harmful idiots had dragged the Saudis in. The harmful idiots thought Hariri would be the perfect candidate to sign a peace treaty with the apple of the harmful idiots’ eye. A Sunni, for a change, practically member of the Saudi royal family. Not some Arab Maronite from a little speck on the Mediterranean. For the harmful idiots, and for the Saudis, the Arab Maronites were passe. Their alliance to Israel saw them eat dirt. They lost the country they once ran, a financially successful country, once the least corrupt under Shihabi rule, with surpluses and a pound (LL) that ran three to one dollar. (It’s now @ LL 1,510.00 to the dollar.)

Now came the Saudi Rafiq Hariri and sank it into the ground. He pocketed an estimated $17 billion dollars. Better yet, he had his banks–owned I suspect in partnership with the Saudi royals–finance the Lebanese government’s $40 billion debt. In other words, he made and continues to make money twice: once by outright and direct corruption and yet again by less direct corruption: by pocketing interest on the money the state (he) had borrowed, a good portion of which went into his pocket. Historic scheme!

(Mr. Berri and Hizbollah played a significant part in bankrupting the Lebanese state. They put each and every Shia on the state social security payrolls. In addition they had hired the multitude of their people as government employees who "worked" by staying home, yet collected a monthly salary.)

Well, Rafiq Hariri pillaged the country, which he considered and treated as his private farm, importing into Lebanon the Saudi system of half-for-me and half-for-me. And he wasn’t alone. His chief partner: Syrian intelligence. He was in bed with them and shared the booty with them

In the last parliamentary elections, he gave his word to Hizbollah that his government would not seek to disarm it. Accordingly, Hizbollah turned its back on Michel Aoun, its Christian Maronite ally. It instructed its people in the Baabda district to vote for the Hariri slate. Hariri gained ten deputies to parliament, as a result, giving him a majority.

But then the harmful idiots, in symbiosis with the Jewish Right and hyper-inspired by that ethnic right wing, came up with the sophomoric (and extremely harmful) plan for a so-called Greater Middle East, so full of other people’s orphans. Hariri bought into it. Now that he was a billionaire many time over, he decided it was time to disarm Hizbollah and get rid of Syria. He had to do it because he was a foreign “asset” of the harmful idiots, as Blair and now Sarkozi likely are.

(A foreign asset is a politically ambitious and/or greed-driven person who the harmful idiots help along, pushing him/her into this or that prestigious post, often placing him/her on the payroll at an early stage of his/her career, until such time as the harmful idiots have a need for him/her. Other intelligence services likely do similar things. So, if you ever wonder how this person is shuttling among these fancy posts, think of the harmful idiots or of foreign intelligence services.)


Unwise to turn on the people who gave you ten deputies to parliament and made you a “majority.” Hariri put his faith in Bush and the Israelis–in their technology–and he paid the price.

The Saudis lost one. Lebanon no longer looked that attractive. The Shia there have become too prominent for Saudi royal comfort.

Then Iraq. There again the Shia gained prominence soon after the harmful idiots ordered the troops in.

The world for the royal team governing the Kingdom went topsy turvy as a consequence.


BUILDING BRIDGES WITH IRAN. NOT.

If only it had the flexibility. If it did have, the royal team would’ve taken advantage of the new balance of power. Instead of being a threat, Syria would’ve been its bridge to Iran and to various resistance groups inside Iraq. Even Muqtadha as-Sadr and his Mahdi Army could’ve been co-opted in a new historic alliance that would’ve made both the Kingdom and the Arab nation that much stronger.

But the royal team didn’t have the flexibility. It thought it did, at one time, helped along by an immense amount of money from oil revenues. It had showed this flexibility, but only fleetingly. It showed it in the Mecca Accord. But the harmful idiots torpedoed that and issued not-so-subtle ultimata to the royal team. They chilled it. Shoulders down, humiliated, the team accepted its fate and turned to Israel to kiss its ass. When the Syrian Deputy to the President spoke, the Saudis over-reacted. As the seven-year old William did in a water fight I had with him two days ago: When he couldn't reach me to dump the heavy bucket of water onto me, he dumped it onto himself. The Saudi royal team couldn't unleash against those holding it by its balls--the harmful idiots/Israelis. So it dumped the soiled water onto itself. For its backlash against Syria was so absurdly virulent that it revealed the royal team's anger with its new predicament: hands tied and forced to kiss the ass of its tormentor: tha harmful idiots/Israelis.



The telling thing about the Mecca Accord was that it had signaled a Saudi policy of developing a working relationship and inter-dependency with Iran. That was a smart approach, a way to stabilize the region. The Mecca Accord was significant in that it would've established yet another link, along with Iraq and Lebanon, for that evolving working relationship with the Islamic Republic. But it wasn’t to be. The harmful idiots wanted the Saudi royal team to buddy up to Israel instead. Why?

1. Because this administration and likely the one which will follow are Israel-centered. It’s not peace they’re after–not even peace for the apple of their eye. It’s dominance over the Middle East--total, unquestioned domination. This domination looks as if it’s been bought for Israel. It is and it’s not. For years now, there has occurred a symbiosis between the Jewish Right and the U.S. government in what relates to the Middle East. The harmful idiots–both Republican and Democrat–are now Israel-centric, in full. Even Brookings, a prominent government-connected think tank, now hosts the Saban Center, an unquestionably Israel-obsessed mini “think tank.” Not to mention the many other “think tanks” which are an extension of the Israeli quest to monopolize American foreign policy in the Middle East, most recently to instigate an Amerian war on Iran. Revolving doors are such that Israel-obsessed entrepreneurs move between government and the think tanks with total freedom and ease. Call it strategic alliance. Within this framework there’s no room for the Saudi royal team to express any independence or creativity.

In other words: symbiosis between the United States and Israel. So, when the harmful idiots threaten the governing royal team, it’s one and the same as if Israel is issuing the threat. Sadly, the royal team caves. Like Willilam, it dumps the bucket of water onto itself--it agrees to cooperate with its tormentor--the harmful idiots a/k/a Israelis. As a result, we obtain close cooperation between Saudi and Israeli intelligence, inane cooperation and essentially useless. ( There’s so much smoke about cooperation between Saudi and Israeli intelligence that there’s bound to be a fire. Likely a big one.) Why be in a relationship that doesn’t help, even likely hurt? The answer: what else can the helpless royal team do? The harmful idiots are hitting below the belt and the Saudi royal team has little to work with. Not to underestimate the likely feeling, naive and unintelligent, on the part of Saudi intelligence that the Israelis can help them in matters that make a difference.

2. Because this administration is working its hardest to evolve an Israeli-Arab front to confront Iran. And the governing royal team better fall in line, or else.

Here, the Saudi governing royal team can see a serious flaw, fatal; yet it can’t seem to able to communicate it to the harmful idiots in good part because Israel (remember: symbiosis) wants an American war on Iran. The fatal flaw: the way things had evolved, in good part thanks to the invasion and elimination of the Arab nationalist government of Iraq, is such that Iran can shift between swaying the Arab Street and swaying the Arab Shia Street, alternating. Put differently, the Arab-Israeli front against Iran will either have to quiet the Arab (mostly Sunni) Street, or the Arab Shia Street. Unworkable.


SWAYING THE STREET

Daily statements by the Iranian leaders, threatening hell if Iran is attacked, are meant to shovel the shit back at the harmful idiots. These had waged one psychological war after another to rattle the Islamic Republic. Now the latter is doing the same. But one recent statement caught my eye. In that statement, the Iranian foreign minister talked gloriously about the “sbhu3ub” (the masses) who he said the harmful idiots could no longer repress. Likely he was referring to the Streets–Arab, Arab Sunni, and Arab Shia. That Iran can ignite these any time it deems necessary.