a rare opportunity to achieve a strategic breakthrough, puts pressure on the Saudis to reassess their discrete contacts with Israel in favor of open alliance against the common enemy, to drop the impossible condition of peace with Palestine as a pre-condition to recognition. In this emerging matrix Syria is the lynchpin to regional conciliation and alliance. With the US a declining power increasingly pre-occupied in Iraq and Afghanistan, less able to confront Iran in what would be a three-front war, Israel is the new defense shield to the Peninsula, and its oil interests.
Whats in it for Israel? Nothing less than her long held strategic dream of reduced regional threat, greatly expanded economic growth resulting from increased regional trade and tourism, etc. And the reduced military threat contributes also to economic growth through reduced spending and reduced taxes.
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