Saudi Arabia, Israel Seeking to Weaken Shiite Axis

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) “The Saudis, leaders of the Sunni Islamic bloc in the Middle East, want the United States to attack Syria to weaken the Shiite Syrian-Iranian axis – their arch rivals,” Ivan Eland said in an article for Antiwar.That is why Saudi officials try to combine their finance resources with Israel’s lobby power in the US Congress and Administration as leverage to push the country towards attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities and also invading Syria. “Although the Sunni Arab bloc and Israel are unfriendly to each other, they both share an interest in weakening the Shiite Syria-Iran axis. And they both want the United States to do their dirty work for them,” Eland said.He added that besides the fact that the US public is exhausted with ever continuing military involvement in different parts of the world, any probable attack on Syria or Iran for the appeasement of Saudi Arabia and Israel would wreck havoc on the US national interests.