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The Saudi-Israeli romance has been developing for many years. Bear in mind that it is the Saudi dictatorship that has established these ties. The Saudi people a

The Saudi-Israeli romance has been developing for many years. Bear in mind that it is the Saudi dictatorship that has established these ties. The Saudi people are fiercely opposed to the Jewish occupation of Palestine. Anything the Saudi government says that is critical of Israel should be taken as purely for Saudi domestic consumption. If you want proof that this romance has been ongoing for years, you need only look at the public statements of the Saudi dictatorship during the Zionist attack on Lebanon in 2006. The Saudi regime supported Israel, while of course the Saudi people supported Hezbollah.

Cyph0n 10y ago
That's a more nuanced relationship than you make it out to be. Hezbollah is a Shia group and funded by Iran. KSA has been adamantly anti-Iran, especially after the fall of Saddam. So in your example, it's more "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Great username by the way ;)
- zionism_answers 10y ago
  That type of sectarian analysis is oversimplified at best, inaccurate at worst. Hostility from KSA vs. Iran is largely at the level of the dictatorship and the extreme right wing (eg, Al Qaeda). KSA has a large Shia population.
  - Cyph0n 10y ago
    I didn't say Shia, I said Iran. There's a huge difference there. Many Shia actually don't at all agree with Iran's policies.
    - quirkafleeg 10y ago
      I don't want to get into a political argument, since it's pointless and the post was flagged anyway, but you did say Shia: "Hezbollah is a Shia group"
      - Cyph0n 10y ago
        Yes, but I also said that KSA is anti-Iran, which I intended to be the main point. I mentioned that Hezbollah is Shia to point out its relationship to Iran.
TheGuyWhoCodes 10y ago
Attack? You make it look like Israel was the aggressor with no reason. When in fact it was provoked by rockets fired on border towns and the attack on a border patrol where 3 soldiers died and 2 were captured.
- dosgonlogs 10y ago
  Israel has always been the aggressor. Educate yourself please: https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestine/dp/1531824846 https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestin...
  - TheGuyWhoCodes 10y ago
    You mean when all the Arabs refused the Partition Plan for Palestine and opened an all out war with Israel and every other war since then.
    - dosgonlogs 10y ago
      ? Zionist Groups were already active for decades killing Arabs and Brits and Christians and Muslims and Jews alike that opposed them. Let's just ignore all of the Zionist Paramilitary Groups that founded the IDF that would regularly kill Brits and Palestinians with bombs (King David Hotel Bombing, good place to start), and let's just ignore the Lavon Affair, where Israeli's pretended to be Muslim Extremists and tried to set off bombs, and let's just ignore Israel sinking the USS Liberty deliberately. Miko Peled's father admitted to Militant Zionists always being the Aggressor. You know how much slaughter, fraud and manipulation it took for the Partition Plan to make it to the UN? Militant Zionism was never an accident.
  - rat87 10y ago
    No most times it wasn't. Hezbollah basically did their best to provoke a war by kidnapping soldiers.

Cyph0n 10y ago

That's a more nuanced relationship than you make it out to be. Hezbollah is a Shia group and funded by Iran. KSA has been adamantly anti-Iran, especially after the fall of Saddam. So in your example, it's more "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Great username by the way ;)

zionism_answers 10y ago
That type of sectarian analysis is oversimplified at best, inaccurate at worst. Hostility from KSA vs. Iran is largely at the level of the dictatorship and the extreme right wing (eg, Al Qaeda). KSA has a large Shia population.
- Cyph0n 10y ago
  I didn't say Shia, I said Iran. There's a huge difference there. Many Shia actually don't at all agree with Iran's policies.
  - quirkafleeg 10y ago
    I don't want to get into a political argument, since it's pointless and the post was flagged anyway, but you did say Shia: "Hezbollah is a Shia group"
    - Cyph0n 10y ago
      Yes, but I also said that KSA is anti-Iran, which I intended to be the main point. I mentioned that Hezbollah is Shia to point out its relationship to Iran.

TheGuyWhoCodes 10y ago

Attack? You make it look like Israel was the aggressor with no reason. When in fact it was provoked by rockets fired on border towns and the attack on a border patrol where 3 soldiers died and 2 were captured.

dosgonlogs 10y ago
Israel has always been the aggressor. Educate yourself please: https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestine/dp/1531824846 https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestin...
- TheGuyWhoCodes 10y ago
  You mean when all the Arabs refused the Partition Plan for Palestine and opened an all out war with Israel and every other war since then.
  - dosgonlogs 10y ago
    ? Zionist Groups were already active for decades killing Arabs and Brits and Christians and Muslims and Jews alike that opposed them. Let's just ignore all of the Zionist Paramilitary Groups that founded the IDF that would regularly kill Brits and Palestinians with bombs (King David Hotel Bombing, good place to start), and let's just ignore the Lavon Affair, where Israeli's pretended to be Muslim Extremists and tried to set off bombs, and let's just ignore Israel sinking the USS Liberty deliberately. Miko Peled's father admitted to Militant Zionists always being the Aggressor. You know how much slaughter, fraud and manipulation it took for the Partition Plan to make it to the UN? Militant Zionism was never an accident.
- rat87 10y ago
  No most times it wasn't. Hezbollah basically did their best to provoke a war by kidnapping soldiers.