Gulf countries rely on Israel, not America, to protect them from Iran and the Muslim Brotherood

"Islamic terrorism and other enemies of the US do not consider Israel to be the number one influence on their policy. They view Israel as the vanguard of the US in the Middle East. They view Israel, and rightly so, as the most effective US beachhead in the Middle East. Iran's Ayatollahs refer to Israel as the 'little Satan', while referring to the US as the 'great American Satan,' which tells us about the priorities.

There is no zero-sum game between US relations with Israel and US relations with Arabs, namely…[this idea that] the US is losing Arab favors the more it gets closer to Israel. The fact is that the US has maintained very productive relations with Israel, and at the same time, very productive relations with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, and Jordan. And all these countries, in fact, have considered Israel to be an asset rather than a liability.

For the Saudis and the Emiratis and Bahrain, and also Egypt and Jordan, Israel has been regarded as a power of deterrence in the face of the threat posed by Iran's Ayatollah and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis and the Emiratis and Bahrain have the machetes of the Ayatollahs and the Muslim Brotherhood at their throat, and they look around and ask themselves, 'Who can we rely on?'

Well, sometimes they can rely on the US, depending on the tenant in the White House. Does the tenant try to appease the Ayatollahs, or is the tenant facing the Ayatollahs very decisively? So, the US sometimes is reliable, as far as they are concerned, sometimes not so reliable. They have written off the Europeans because the Europeans have lost their will to flex a muscle against Islamic terrorism.

Every single, relatively moderate Arab regime has the machetes of terrorists at their throat. The only country upon which they can rely, to an extent, has been Israel. And therefore, American ties with Israel are not at the expense of American ties with the Arabs, because the Arabs realize Israel serves as a major line of defense of the Hashemite regime in Jordan - the pro-American Hashemite regime in Jordan [for example.]

Israel has developed pretty close defense ties with Saudi Arabia. The same goes for the King of Morocco, who highly respects Israel's capabilities in combating terrorism. And the bottom line is that when it comes to facing Islamic terrorism, the US and Israel and the pro-US Arab countries are facing a mutual enemy." - Yoram Ettinger

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