Dr. Eli David

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Having spoken to a senior Saudi official about the NBC article regarding Project Freedom, I honestly think the article completely misunderstood what actually happened because it was written almost entirely from a US perspective rather than from a GCC perspective. First of all, contrary to the impression being created, the GCC were NOT blindsided by Project Freedom. They knew about it beforehand. Roughly half a day before. The airspace was opened. The facilities were available. Nobody objected. There was broad support for the idea because, at least publicly, Project Freedom was supposed to be a limited humanitarian-security operation aimed at relieving the 22,000 sailors trapped around Hormuz and allowing shipping lanes to breathe again. Nobody in the GCC had a problem with that. But here is the issue .. and this is the part the NBC article completely misses. If you are asking GCC countries to participate in such an operation, then you need to be upfront about the rules of engagement from day one! You cannot say:
“Please open your skies and bases, expose your energy infrastructure” …only for everyone to discover afterwards that the actual American policy was apparently: “Oh by the way, if Iran attacks you with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones in several waves, we still won’t retaliate because Donald Trump is busy chasing The Deal.” And this is exactly what shocked the Saudis. Not the Iranian attack itself. The UAE/GCC expected retaliation.. This is Iran. Nobody in the Gulf is naïve about that anymore. The shock came from the American reaction afterwards. You had attacks against Emirati infrastructure. Fujairah was targeted. Multiple waves involving drones, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles. And Washington’s response was basically:
“Meh. Minor incident. Let’s not escalate.” Minor incident?! For the GCC that was madness. Because what Riyadh, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi suddenly realized was that Trump’s obsession with preserving “The Deal” had apparently reached the point where Gulf energy infrastructure was now considered acceptable collateral damage in the pursuit of his precious negotiations. Everything became:
The deal.
The deal.
The beautiful deal.
The greatest deal.
The mother of all deals. The ultimate “Art of the deal” Or perhaps, more accurately:
The ultimate fart of the deal. Because from the Gulf perspective, this stopped looking like strategy and started looking like desperate political vanity mixed with deadly wishful thinking. Had the GCC been told beforehand:
“Listen, whatever Iran does to you during Project Freedom, America will not retaliate because we do not want to endanger negotiations…” …they would have almost certainly refused participation from the start. The problem was not Project Freedom itself. The problem was discovering midway through the operation that the GCC countries were apparently expected to sit there quietly as punching bags while Washington played negotiation theatrics with Tehran. So the Saudis and Kuwaitis pulled plug! Because the GCC know something US usually forgets: Iran plays the long game. You can freeze enrichment.
Pause enrichment.
Delay enrichment.
Sign ten agreements.
Twenty agreements.
Forty agreements. But if the infrastructure remains…
If the centrifuges remain…
If the IRGC remains…
If the proxy network remains… then eventually the game resumes. There will be another distraction.
Another pandemic.
Another financial crisis.
Another war somewhere else.
Another paralysis in Washington. And while the world is distracted, enrichment quietly resumes again. Ironically, much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile expanded during the pandemic years precisely because global attention was elsewhere. Judging by the reaction to the UAE attacks, the Saudis and Kuwaitis concluded that Trump’s version of deterrence had become: “Please absorb the missiles quietly because I’m trying to write the sequel to “The Fart of the Deal.”

I will not be paying taxes this year, at the request of Pakistan.

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER _

Today my son told me he doesn't want to go to school, at the request of Pakistan.

Today I called my bank and told them I won't be repaying my loan, at the request of Pakistan.

I was about to reply to emails. But decided to watch TV instead, at the request of Pakistan.

My new Out Of Office message: Thank you for your email. I would have loved to respond promptly, but at the request of Pakistan I am on vacation. I will get back to you within 48 hours, or next week, or later if asked by Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Prediction: There won't be a deal with Iran. Much like haggling in a bazaar, they see Trump's threats and backtracking as weakness, prompting them to raise their demands.

סעיף ז' בחוקת הליכוד קובע שמטרת התנועה היא: ”...כינון משק חופשי-תחרותי הנושא את עצמו והמבוסס על יוזמה חפשית, והימנעות הממשלה, ככל הניתן ממעורבות במשק.“ מה הקשר בין הסעיף הזה, לבולשביקים כמו "ששי ביצים" וחבורתו? צריך להעיף אותם שיצטרפו לנעמה לזימי הקומוניסטית.

ח"כ @dillouz צודק במאה אחוז. מבחינה אידיאולוגית, "ששי ביצים" (ודומיו) בליכוד זה כמו אחמד טיבי ב"עוצמה יהודית".

@odlo434901 יו"ר הכנסת היחיד שבכל שנה *קיצץ* בתקציב הכנסת. ליברל לא רק בדיבורים, אלא בעיקר במעשים.

@DrEliDavid סליחה במה בדיוק אוחנה ליברל? מה הוא עשה בעניין?

”אחי, למה אתה יורה בתוך הנגמ"ש?“ ​כשהאויב חודר לתוך הנגמ"ש, אין לך ברירה. בולשביקים, שבעצמם מודים שאין הבדל בינם לבין נעמה לזימי הקומוניסטית, חדרו לתוך ”מפלגה לאומית ליברלית“.

Amazing speech by UAE's @SultanAlJaber 👇 “In the UAE 🇦🇪, we don't not simply endure hardahips; we emerge from them stronger.” The UAE's strong backbone and moral clarity firmly established it as the leading Arab nation in the world.

🚨 Breaking: France surrendered, following Pakistan's request.