The United States would lose Saudi Arabia as an ally if it blocks the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month, according to a New York Times piece written by a senior Saudi official.
"Saudi Arabia would no longer be able to cooperate with America in the same way it historically has," Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, wrote in an opinion piece that was officially sanctioned by the monarchy. "Saudi leaders would be forced by domestic and regional pressures to adopt a far more independent and assertive foreign policy."
The Obama administration has been firm in denouncing Palestinian attempts to generate support for its bid for statehood and has promised to veto the resolution at the Security Council this month.
If the US follows through on that promise, wrote al-Faisal, "Saudi Arabia would pursue other policies at odds with those of the United States, including opposing the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Iraq and refusing to open an embassy there despite American pressure to do so. The Saudi government might part ways with Washington in Afghanistan and Yemen as well."
Prince Turki al-Faisal stressed that the starting point for peace must be a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders, something the US and Israel have slighted for decades, and still in the Obama administration.
Saudi altruism with regards to Shi'ites a couple of thousand miles away didn't apply to those next door. However, Saudi hypocrisy can not be called by the Americans or the Israelis, since both are saturated in same.
If the US ignores this threat, it could mark the beginning of the unification of World Islam, a situation the US and Israel have forestalled at every opportunity in the last century. If The Saudis and Iran make a pact, fear and trembling would shake the ground in Israel because they now have no secure borders, and even their nominally old friends the Turks are openly antagonistic. If Muslims coalesced around this unity, no shots would be required to rid the ME of its Zionist cockroaches -- they'd flee the gathering storm and the "Jewish Problem" would once again unleashed on a world weary of The Chosen Victims.