Saudi Arabia is working directly with Israel on confronting “challenges” in the Middle East according to CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, the CIA chief also suggested that they could go as far as setting up “a joint military headquarters.”
He said ISIS, Iran and “failed states” pose a challenge to both Saudi Arabia and Israel and advised the two sides to develop their relationship even hinting that a joint military headquarters could provide stability.
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“We’ve seen them [Saudis] work with the Israelis to push back against terrorism throughout the Middle East, to the extent we can continue to develop those relationships and work alongside them – the [Persian] Gulf states and broader Middle East will likely be more secure,” Pompeo said, adding that “It is incredibly important that in the Middle East, where we have failed states, where you have ISIS, where you have Iran, that we have got to develop a stronger coalition of countries that are willing to work together to confront these challenges”
Press TV reports: Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are alarmed by the growing power of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement which has been key to breaking the grip of Takfiri terrorists and other militants on territories in Iraq and Syria.
Pompeo called for building “a strong coalition that can operate – frankly I think with a joint military headquarters that can… target the terrorists in that region, that can basically work together to try to provide stability.”
Saudi Arabia’s closeness to Israel has come in the wake of Riyadh’s aggressive policies under its new rulers who have launched a destructive war on Yemen.
The kingdom has also ratcheted up its hostile rhetoric against Iran, threatening to draw a possible future conflict inside the Iranian territory.
Saudi Arabia has further been associated with Takfiri groups wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraqi for years.
With Daesh almost eliminated, the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and their allies are said to be shoring up Nusra Front terrorists in Syria.
Last month, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Tel Aviv had had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia, in the first official acknowledgement of such relations.
“We have ties that are indeed partly covert with many Muslim and Arab countries, and usually [we are] the party that is not ashamed,” he said in an interview on Army Radio.
Yaacov Nagel, who stepped down as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s internal security adviser earlier this year, said Saudi Arabia was ready to sacrifice Palestinians and their demands for closer ties with Israel.
“They don’t like [the Palestinians] more than us or less than us,” he said, adding the Saudis “don’t give a damn” about the Palestinians.
Niamh Harris
When men such as these believe their own lies or not, and simply open their mouth to deliberately spew complete fabrications and distortions of reality for the purpose of agenda realisation for the Master Puppeteers through war and destruction and inflict misery on millions of human beings, it’s then time for the masses (including military personnel) to come together and rally against such depraved puppets and oust them from any office, then go after the M P. But, that’s never going to happen, is it? And that for obvious reasons, for the whole body is sick, not just the head or the fingers or toes, but the heart, the lungs and the nervous and circulatory system. There is therefore only one solution, and its is coming as sure as the rising of the sun!