Al-Akhbar: ‘As Saudi Arabia’s predicament deepens, Israel offers its services’ /
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Danny Citrinowicz: ‘The Houthis are tightening the Saudi trap’ /
‘Netanyahu leveraging Houthi threat in secret Saudi normalisation push’ /
Ibrahim Al-Amine: “How a handful of free men succeeded in shattering the castles of sand with a single blow” /
AnsarAllah takes control of UAE-Israeli security infrastructure on Red Sea Islands
CONSEQUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS —
‘As Saudi Arabia’s predicament in Yemen deepens, Israel offers its services’ (Al-Akhbar, leading Lebanese pro-resistance daily):
Saudi Arabia’s allies do not, as yet, appear prepared to offer more than intelligence support and security advice … [despite] Saudi Arabia having exhausted more than two-thirds of its ‘Patriot PAC-3’ ammunition in protecting US facilities ... In this round, Israel has come to occupy a more prominent position in the effort to support Saudi, although it remains reluctant to launch a pre-emptive strike against Yemen, based on the assessment that any new military action might fail to achieve the objective of deterrence … As an alternative to direct military involvement, Tel Aviv is proposing to strengthen intelligence support and to participate in the construction of air defence systems to protect the Kingdom’s airspace …
Professor Robert Pape revealed that Riyadh has – in secret – asked Tel Aviv to bolster its air defences … via a channel brokered by US Central Command, through which Riyadh is integrated into the early warning system and receives tracking and monitoring data to help it detect and intercept threats. Pape believes that this development reflects a shift in the regional security landscape, characterised by the integration of Israeli intelligence capabilities into Saudi Arabia’s defence mechanisms [as] Washington appears less willing to bear the cost of direct military intervention.[However, Pape] describes [this] as a ‘survival deal’, rather than … an immediate precursor to a political agreement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv …