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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance
2014-08-29
by Caroline Glick
Long, carefully thought out, and looking further into the implications, ie. typical Carolyn Glick. Here is the set up:
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors in the region begin to reassess the threats they face.

Hamas was once funded by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 and enabled by Egypt. Now the regimes of these countries view it as part of a larger axis of Sunni jihad that threatens not only Israel, but them.

The Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, and its state sponsors Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
 and Turkey, are the key members of this alliance structure. Without their support Hamas would have gone down with the Moslem Brotherhood regime in Egypt last summer. As it stands, all view Hamas's war with Israel as a means of reinstating the Brotherhood to power in that country.

To achieve a Hamas victory, Turkey, Qatar and the Moslem Brotherhood are using Western support for Hamas against Israel. If the US and the EU are able to coerce Egypt and Israel to open their borders with Gazoo, then the Western powers will hand the jihadist axis a strategic victory.

The implications of such a victory would be dire.

Hamas is ideologically indistinguishable from Islamic State.
In the long run, both want a Sharia-based religious tyranny. But Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestinian Territories, and historically the MB branches have been willing to go crabwise toward the end state, rather than crash into it with great massacres of those who desire something less stringent.
Like Islamic State, Hamas has developed mass slaughter and psychological terrorization as the primary tools in its military doctrine. If the US and the EU force Israel and Egypt to open Gazoo's borders, they will enable Hamas to achieve strategic and political stability in Gazoo. As a consequence, a post-war Gazoo will quickly become a local version of Islamic State-controlled djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
In the first instance, such a development will render life in southern Israel too imperiled to sustain. The Western Negev, and perhaps Beersheba, Ashkelon and Ashdod, will become uninhabitable.

Then there is Judea and Samaria. If, as the US demands, Israel allows Gazoo to reconnect with Judea and Samaria, in short order Hamas will dominate the areas. Militarily, the transfer of even a few of the thousands of rocket-propelled grenades Hamas has in Gazoo will imperil military forces and civilians alike.

IDF armored vehicles and armored civilian buses will be blown to smithereens.

Whereas operating from Gazoo, Hamas needed the assistance of the B.O. regime and the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down Ben-Gurion Airport, from Judea and Samaria, all Hamas would require are a couple of hand-held mortars.

Jordan will also be directly threatened.

From Egypt's perspective, a Hamas victory in the war with Israel that connects Gazoo to Sinai will strengthen the Moslem Brotherhood and its Islamic State and other allies. Such a development represents a critical threat to the regime.

And this brings us to Islamic State itself. It couldn't have grown to its current monstrous proportions without the support of Qatar and Turkey.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The House of Saud has only one driving concern in the matter: to make sure the Hashemites don't bother Arabia. They know for a fact that Israel doesn't want Arabia. The entire philosophy here is resolving into "Better the devil you know..."
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-08-29 07:41  

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