Saudi Arabia has offered Egypt $5 billion in aid Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
Saudi Arabia Re-Emerges As Powerful Middle East Player -- The Telegraph
Saudi Arabia has re-emerged as the Middle East's most powerful influence-peddler, with its presence being felt in both Egypt and Syria, says Richard Spencer.
It may be the least revolutionary country in the world, but this week Saudi Arabia won the full support of the world's greatest insurrectionists.
Sayed Sami Hassan has been in Cairo's Tahrir Square since January 25, 2011, and in that time has seen off an American-backed dictator, a military junta, and an elected Muslim Brotherhood president. He is the sort of street rebel whom, at home, Saudi Arabia's autocracy most fears.
But this week he gave the absolute monarchs from across the Red Sea his absolute backing. "The Saudis are our brothers," he said, from his tent in Tahrir's continuous encampment.
"They are Muslims, they believe in God. President Morsi, now he was an agent of America and Qatar, but the Saudis are helping us."
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My Comment: They have the oil and the money .... case closed.
1 comment:
The insights of an irrational rebel...
Someone should tell the rebel that the Saudis are also in bed with America..
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