Swiss media: The “secret” Israeli-Saudi alliance develops with a Saudi approach to purchase Israeli weapons and equipment

The Swiss media revealed details of the “secret alliance between Tel Aviv and Riyadh, under which the Kingdom is considering the purchase of weapons and equipment from Israel, primarily the defense system” Iron Dome “, in order to repel the rockets fired by Ansar Allah towards Saudi territory, (Baseler Tsitung) Swiss, Saudi Arabia and the occupying entity are forming a secret alliance to prevent Iranian expansion in the Middle East.

According to the report, which was based on high-level sources in the Saudi capital, the kingdom is seriously studying the purchase of weapons systems from the Jewish state, adding that despite the absence of official relations between them, the two countries have extensive cooperation in the two countries.

In order to stop the Iranian plan to control other areas in the Middle East, the Saudi source told the Swiss newspaper.

In addition, the Hebrew site, citing the Swiss report, stressed that Saudi Arabia is very interested in buying Israeli weapons, in particular systems for the defense of tanks, in addition to the “Iron Dome” system, in order to prevent the threat of Yemeni missiles fired into its territory by the group Ansar Allah (Houthis).

The newspaper also revealed a series of meetings that brought together Israeli and Saudi soldiers in order to enhance cooperation between them.

The newspaper also quoted sources in Riyadh that recently met with former leaders of the Saudi intelligence with their counterparts from Israel and discussed together US policy in the region.

Israeli sources revealed, quoting sources in both Tel Aviv and Washington, that America is actively seeking to form an informal alliance between several moderate Arab countries in the region in addition to Israel, in order to confront what is called in Washington and Tel Aviv axis of evil, which includes Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.

The military analyst in the newspaper “Yediot Ahronot” Hebrew Alex Fishman, that in the first stage the Americans are not talking about a regional defense alliance in the Middle East in the form of NATO, but they emphasize the establishment of cooperation between these countries in the exchange of information Security, estimates and meetings.

The analyst stressed that deep things are going on behind the curtain between Riyadh and Tel Aviv, likely to move to the public, explaining that Saudi-Israeli cooperation is very sensitive, but the US administration knows very well that any cooperation between Tel Aviv and a group of Arab countries, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because the latter believes that this cooperation carries a security importance for the Jewish state, he said.

Fishman said that the US administration does not rely on Egypt, which it describes as half the state, but at the same time seeks to include Qatar and Bahrain into this informal alliance, which the Americans decided to form first and foremost in the face of the Iranian threat, Israel, in addition, the countries that the Americans planned to enter into this alliance, also combines prevent the smuggling of weapons from Tehran to Damascus, and from Damascus to Amman, and from Libya to Egypt and Sinai, and from Sudan to Sinai and the sector, and from Iran to Yemen, And to Sinai and Gaza, as security sources in Tel Aviv reveled.

In connection with the above, the Israeli Orientalist, Dr. Eddie Cohen, who is very close to the Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv, revealed that relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv increased with the launch of the Saudi initiative in 2002, pointing out that informal meetings between the parties and that relations improved and developed very much in 2015, Official meetings were held between representatives from Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

In an article published in Israel Hayom newspaper, the orientalist stressed that the main engine for the development of relations between the two sides is their total opposition to the Iranian nuclear program.

He noted that in the past he published a visit by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Saudi Arabia.

The relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have reached a peak after the report, which confirmed a meeting between Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Cohen, a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv.