Historiographers: Islamophobia scarecrow pretext to shore up underhanded Saudi-Israel ties

Historiographers have recently spotlighted the mounting underhanded Israeli-Saudi partnership, bolstered under the red herring of intents to fight political Islamism and terrorism in the region.

A fuss has been lately triggered by a visit paid by the shadowy chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency Tamir Pardo to his Saudi counterpart, local Hebrew sources said quoting Israeli security apparatuses.

The same sources said Saudi Arabia is expected to supply Israel with oil, a scenario that was not ruled out by Saudi officials themselves.

The Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum Ali Al-Naimi said his government is ready to sell oil to all world countries.

“Israel is recognized by most of the world’s states,” sources quoted the minister as further claiming. “Nothing prevents trade cooperation with Israel.”

The Saudi Arabia-Israel partnership, which had always been carried out in the shades, have emerged to the surface and become as evident as day light.

Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum, a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at the Bar-Ilan University, said such deals between the two parties are likely to result in a Saudi back-up to the Israeli occupation in case the latter opts to hit Iran’s nuclear installations.

He pointed to the key-role played by the U.S. administration in the current deals struck between the two parties.

The shift from a state of underhandedness to a lack-of-guile phase as far as the Saudi-Israeli ties are concerned does not just fit the former’s intents to fashion an image for itself as the lookout-tower of Islam, so it might stop such cooperation in the event its image was harmed, Prof. Teitelbaum added.