MEATO: The Trans-Riyadh-Jerusalem-Athens Alliance

Haaretz reported on Cheney’s speech to the GOP:

“The bottom line is,” Cheney said, “the United States’ position in [the Middle East] is worse than at any time in my lifetime… It’s reached the point where Israel and Egypt, [the United Arab] Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan are closer to one another – imagine that! – than any of them is to us…”

By Mark Langfan, INN

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

It’s a classic case of: “If you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.”

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 counterterrorismexercises 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.

Mark Langfan: The writer, who specializes in security issues, has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen at www.marklangfan.com.