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Posted 01 April 2015 - 10:21 AM

Although it’s rarely acknowledged in the mainstream U.S. media –

Israel is now allied with Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Persian Gulf states which are supporting Sunni militants in Al-Qaeda and, to a lesser extent, the Islamic State


Both Israel and the Saudi bloc have identified Shiite-ruled Iran as their chief regional adversary and thus are supporting proxy wars against perceived Iranian allies in Syria and now Yemen.

What has most outraged Americans has been the behavior of these Sunni extremists, from Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks to the Islamic State’s beheading of helpless hostages and religious minorities in Syria and elsewhere. And, the principal backer of this Sunni extremism has been Saudi Arabia where wealthy prince-playboys buy leniency for their licentious behavior from the religious ulema (or leaders) by financing the extreme Wahhabi teachings.

The West has had grievances with elements of the Shiite world, too, such as the seizure of U.S. Embassy hostages in Iran in 1979 and excessive violence by the Syrian military against opposition forces in 2011. But the most intense American anger has been provoked by the actions of Sunni fundamentalists involving mass murder of innocents.



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Posted 14 April 2015 - 09:20 AM

Although it’s rarely acknowledged in the mainstream U.S. media –

Israel is now allied with Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Persian Gulf states which are supporting Sunni militants in Al-Qaeda and, to a lesser extent, the Islamic State


Both Israel and the Saudi bloc have identified Shiite-ruled Iran as their chief regional adversary and thus are supporting proxy wars against perceived Iranian allies in Syria and now Yemen.


The Obama Doctrine——Breaking From The Prison Of Cold War Relics

Untethered to old allies, Barack Obama is grounding his Middle East policy on what he sees as the new realities.

And the policy shifts he is making are unlikely to be reversed, for the discarding of old friends in altered circumstances is an American tradition.


What is the new reality Obama sees across the Middle East?

It is that America’s most dangerous enemies are al-Qaida and its progeny, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq. And in the war against al-Qaida and ISIS, the Ayatollah’s Iran and its allies – Hezbollah, Syria’s Bashar Assad and Iraq’s Shiite militias – are on our side.

Obama is not wrong here. If NATO’s Turkey, Israel, and the Gulf Arabs prefer Sunni Islamists in Damascus to an Alawite regime with which we have coexisted for 40 years, then President Obama is right to move us away from our old allies. U.S. national interests come first.

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