Saudi Leader: U.S. Hindering Palestine Vote Could Cost Alliance

[Purveyor]

September 12, 2011

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The United States stands to lose Saudi Arabia as an ally if it thwarts a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood this month, a former top Saudi official said.

"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, said in a New York Times opinion piece that could not have been published without official sanction. "Saudi leaders would be forced by domestic and regional pressures to adopt a far more independent and assertive foreign policy.

"Like our recent military support for Bahrain’s monarchy, which America opposed, 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."

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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/09/12/3089338/saudi-us-hindering-palestine-vote-could-cost-alliance

[aquart]

1. They funded 9/11 when we were best friends.

And now they're threatening to become our enemy? LOL! How will we be able to tell?

I'm assuming Arab spring has them totally spooked because their great Palestinian love has been most notable for its absence, lo these many years.

[KansDem]

2. Yeah, what're they going to do?

Fly airliners into our tallest buildings?

Oh, wait...they already did that.

[leftyohiolib]

3. they wont cause we already fought their war for them when we got saddam