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Israel Strategic Value: Western Theater 1.0

Published on April 25, 2014 by Mark

Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Israel's Security, Israel’s Strategic Value, The Watchman, Threats To Israel

MEATO: The Trans-Riyadh-Jerusalem-Athens Alliance

We may be on the verge of a geo-political earthquake.

Published on April 13, 2014 by Mark

Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Physics states “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

It often seems that the Third Law applies not only to the world of physical objects, but also to the world of foreign affairs.  Evidence of Newton’s Third Law application can be found in Obama’s “withdrawal” from the Middle East, and his concomitant anointing of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the new Muslim Hegemonic Imanate.

For, it is now clear there tectonic shifts in alliances are taking place that could place Israel’s military might as the cornerstone to a new Middle East-Mediterranean alliance from Riyadh to Athens that will transform history.  The Pan-Greek-Israel-Saudi alliance will be called MEATO, Middle East Alliance Treaty Organization.

In what is a ground-breaking event, the New York Times reported:

“Emerging from meetings with his Israeli counterparts on Monday, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that discussions included ‘an outreach to other partners who may not have been willing to be partners in the past’.”

“He added, ‘What I mean is the Gulf states in particular, who heretofore may not have been as open-minded to the potential for cooperation with Israel, in any way.’ While General Dempsey did not go into specifics, other American military officials said that possibilities include intelligence-sharing, joint counterterrorism exercises and perhaps looking for how Israeli and Saudi troops could jointly work on the training of Syrian opposition fighters.”

Now, for the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to openly state that “What I mean is the Gulf states in particular” are the countries with which the “outreach to other partners” will occur is a 10 on the geo-political Richter scale.  Either he was trying to sabotage the budding Israeli-Saudi alliance, and failed, or, he was incapable of escaping the reality and robustness of the alliance. Either way, in the wake of Obama’s abandonment of America’s historical allies, things are dramatically in flux.

What’s even more amazing, and puzzling, was the second half of the article that went on to report:

“Another thing potentially bringing Israel and Gulf states together is their intensifying criticism of American foreign policy. When President Obama met in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, for example, he heard the same disquiet over the continuing talks on Iran’s nuclear program that General Dempsey heard on Monday in Jerusalem.

“A Defense Department official, who like others agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, noted that ‘there’s a convergence of agreement between them, and in opposition to what we’re doing’.”

In light of the above, why is the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff assisting a non-American alliance where a US Defense Department official goes on record telling the New York Times that “there’s a convergence of agreement between them [between Israel and Saudi Arabia], and in opposition to what we’re [i.e. Obama is] doing”?

Could Chairman Dempsey be trying to work in opposition to what Obama is doing?  After all, Obama is attempting to destroy every last vestige of America’s strategic hold in the Middle East. More likely, when Obama visited Riyadh, he realized the US didn’t know how far the Israelis and Saudis had connected, so Obama sent the only person in the world he thinks the Israelis trust (Dempsey) to pry out of the Israelis the actual state of Israeli-Saudi rapprochement.

What is the latest Obama-Israel-Saudi scorecard?

In Egypt, Israel and the Saudis support the secular General Sisi, and Obama wants to actively overthrow General Sisi.  Obama is grotesquely withholding from Egypt the urgently needed IMF loans to stabilize his country, and the Apache helicopters necessary to rout the terrorists in the Sinai.  Strike one against Obama.

Israel and the Saudis want Iran’s nuclear program destroyed, Obama is doing anything, and everything to, de facto, protect and enhance Iran’s nuclear weapons’ program.  Strike two against Obama.

Israel and Saudi Arabia see the destruction of Syria’s Assad as a prime element in the destruction of Iran’s waxing hegemonic enterprise from Tehran to the Mediterranean Sea. And, Obama has starved the Syrian rebels of the weapons it needs to destroy Iran’s puppet, and its house of terrorist cards.  Strike three.  Obama is out.

Still, why is Saudi Arabia forced to ally itself with Israel?

First, Saudi Arabia eliminated the other Muslim heavyweights.  The only other two possibilities for Saudi Arabia are two 80 million plus populations of either Turkey or Egypt.

Anyway, by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, and due to Erdogan’s delusions of Ottoman Caliphate grandeur, Turkey and Qatar are working in the opposite direction than is Saudi Arabia.

Next, Egypt can barely support itself, let alone militarily help the Saudis.

Unlike everybody, the Israelis don’t covet Saudi oil, or have designs on Mecca.  They just want to tan themselves on Tel Aviv beaches, pray to the G-d of Abraham, and invent internet billion-dollar companies.   The only way for the Saudis to cost-effectively keep their northern front of Jordan stable is to have Israel, de facto, protecting Jordan’s western and northern borders, and to supply Jordan with gas from the Med.

Without Israel stabilizing the strategic Med Sea seamline, Saudi Arabia would be crushed from the north.

Only through Israel can the Eastern-Theater-Saudis also graft into Israel’s Western-Theater-Mediterranean Sea alliance with Greece.  A joint Middle East alliance between the Saudis, Israel, Egypt, and Mediterranean Greece would be a watershed event.  Such a topologic-geographic connective east-west span through the Levant could open a gas-oil-pipeline from the Persian Gulf to Europe that would change history.

In fact, in the 1936-39 “First” Arab-Israel War, Britain trained and armed the Jewish “Special Night Squads” (SNS)  (Hebrew: Plugot Ha’Layla Ha’Meyukhadot ) that protected the critical British east-to-west-to-Med-Sea oil pipeline from Iraq through to Haifa.  The Mandate Jewish SNS saved Britain’s oil pipeline and refinery at Haifa that fueled Britain’s WW2 fight against Hitler’s Rommel Panzers in North Africa, and the Queen’s navy and air force in the Mediterranean Sea.

The crystal of the pre-1948 Jewish SNS special operations force soon morphed into the post-1948 present-day Israel IDF.

Today, the IDF would serve a modern-day SNS protecting Europe’s oil and gas supply from the Sunni Gulf.  Such an energy pipeline would render Israel as a strategic-lifeline of Europe’s energy existence.

Apart from the United States, the Saudis know that only Israel has the order-of-battle necessary to damage Iran’s nuclear program.  Since, Obama has made it abundantly clear that the United States is reaching an entente with Iran, Obama has left the Saudis no choice but to seek out Israel.  It’s the Saudi’s ally of last resort, but an ally nevertheless.  It’s a classic case of: “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.”

It’s also clear that Iran will attempt to go nuclear under Obama’s tenure.  So, a move against Iran will have to be made inside of the next 2+ years.

Even outside the Obama’s remaining two-plus years, Israel, and only Israel, can deliver the cost-efficiency stability and trustworthiness the Sunnis and the Saudis need to remain the Sunni’s and the Saudi’s cornerstone ally.

So, we may be witnessing a revolution in alliances that could determine the fates of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Sunnis, Greece, Cyprus, and Europe for a century.

Filed Under: Articles, Op Eds Tagged With: Israel National News

10 Reasons Why Russia Will Invade Ukraine

It makes more sense for Russia to invate Ukraine than it does for it to stay put.

Published on April 8, 2014 by Mark

With pro-Russian forces storming the South Ukrainian government buildings, the countdown has started on Russia’s invasion of South Ukraine.  A NATO general has predicted such an invasion would take 3-5 days.

Here are 10 reasons why Putin will likely make a dash westward to Moldavia... Share on X

10.  Russia believes it must stop the expansion of NATO before it grabs South Ukraine’s weapons industry.  If NATO controlled Ukraine’s weapons’ exports to Russia, Russia’s ability to re-arm would be paralyzed.

9.    South Ukraine holds the connective path to the Russian Majority Trans-Dniester Moldavia.

8.    South Ukraine holds and controls electric power to Crimea.  So, without Russia controlling South Ukraine, North Ukraine’s control of South Ukraine can turn Crimea’s lights out.

7.    South Ukraine holds Zheltiye Vody the center of Ukraine’s Uranium mining, and Dneprozerzhinsk, the Heavy water production site, which could produce 250 metric tons of heavy water per year.

6.    South Ukraine holds critical Soviet-era nuclear, coal, hydro-electric power plants.

5.    South Ukraine holds existing gas pipeline to Romania, and from the Romanian Black Sea coastal plain the gas pipeline would wind its way up the Danube River Basin into the heart of Europe – the Black Forest of Germany.  Russia would moot the need to spend tens of billions building the Black Sea, or alternative Crimean leg of Russia’s planned South Stream gas pipeline.  Russian control of the South Ukraine gas pipeline would provide an “end-run-around” what is now North Ukraine’s stranglehold bottleneck on Russian gas exports to Europe.

4.    South Ukraine holds many vital Soviet-era military industry, ship-building, and land arms factories necessary for Russia army and navy.  In fact, many of the key components, such as helicopter rotors, are made in South Ukraine.  For Russia, no South Ukraine means no Russian helicopters.  Now, Ukraine is the 4th largest exporter of weapons in the world, mostly from South Ukraine.  Also, South Ukraine is arming Russian client-states such as Assad.  So, for Russia, no South Ukraine means no easy ability to arm client states.

3.    South Ukraine holds huge Iron Ore Deposits, and other vital minerals.

2.    South Ukraine, like Crimea, holds huge natural gas and conventional oil deposits, as well as off-shore deposits in the Black Sea.

1.    South Ukraine holds a significant Russian majority.
Like Crimea, the South Ukraine holds a considerable majority of ethic Russians who speak Russian as their primary language.

 

Time will tell if Putin’s assessment of Russia’s needs trumps international opinion.

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Yoran Ettinger interview at AFSI event

Published on April 2, 2014 by Mark

Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Americans For a Safe Israel

Mark Langfan at AFSI event

Published on April 2, 2014 by Mark

Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Americans For a Safe Israel

IDF Intercepts Iranian Shipment of Rockets to Terrorist Organizations in Gaza

Published on March 5, 2014 by Mark

The M-302 missiles that #Iran tried to smuggle into #Gaza are capable of striking anywhere in #Israel, threatening millions of lives

— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) March 5, 2014

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