Saudis, Sotto Voce: We Helped Defend Israel

Saudi Arabia acknowledged that it had helped the newly forged regional military coalition — Israel, the United States, Jordan, the United Kingdom, and France — repel an Iranian attack against the Jewish state early Sunday morning, in an unusual post on its royal family’s website.

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It referenced a story on KAN News about the Saudi involvement in the military defensive operation in which 99% of the Iranian drones and missiles were destroyed before hitting their targets. ...

Jordan has been public about its involvement, while the closest Saudi Arabia has come to acknowledging it was the story it posted on its website summarizing what a source from the Saudi royal family had told KAN.

Ed Morrissey

To paraphrase Blazing Saddles, in twenty-five years, the Saudis will talk to Jews in daylight! Not that this is insignificant, of course; it's a testament to work begun under Donald Trump with the Abraham Accords to isolate Iran and create a united counterweight to their terror-sponsoring regime. Now if we could just get Joe Biden to join the effort, rather than appeasing Iran ... 

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