Forget the polite fictions of the Arab League diplomacy.
The most explosive alliance in the Middle East today is not signed on paper—it is coded into radar screens and encrypted channels.
Israel and Saudi Arabia, two supposed “enemies”, are now partners in the shadows, quietly trading intelligence to stop the Iranian war machine before it hits their skies again.
This is not speculation. It is a fact.
Back in 2017, Israel’s top general, Gadi Eisenkot, told a Saudi outlet, ‘Elaph’, that Israel was “ready to share intelligence” to confront Iran. The interview, verified by Reuters and the Asia Times, was a rare on-the-record admission that the IDF was prepared to exchange intel with Saudi Arabia and other “moderate Arab states.”
Translation: the lines were already open. And this was no diplomatic fluff; it was a military signal.
That is why Eisenkot emphasized that Israel and Saudi Arabia shared “many common interests,” especially in countering Iran’s influence across Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon.
Fast forward to 2024, when Iran hurled over 300 missiles and drones at Israel in its largest-ever strike, something unique happened.
According to ‘The Wall Street Journal’, out of the 300 incoming threats—170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and several dozen cruise missiles—Israel’s air defenses, backed by US and regional partners, intercepted 99% of these threats.
Doubtlessly, this was an unprecedented success rate in modern warfare. But it did not happen by luck.
According to the same newspaper and ‘The War Zone’, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), alongside Saudi Arabia, quietly supplied Israel with radar data and early-warning intelligence from their own defense networks before and during the attack.
Although Riyadh denied involvement, radars do not lie—and those signals traveled through shared CENTCOM channels linking US, Israeli, and Arab systems.
That operation exposed a new Middle Eastern reality: the Jewish State and the guardian of Mecca are now ‘de facto’ allies.
The reason? Iran.
Tehran’s drones menace both Jerusalem and Riyadh, and the Jewish State and the Al-Saud family understand that slogans won’t stop missiles. Shared intelligence will; that is why Washington’s decision to move Israel under CENTCOM in 2021 created the perfect bridge for this.
The “Middle East Air Defense Alliance”—a US-backed framework—was built precisely to link Israel with Arab radar systems. In 2022, Axios reported that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Jordan participated in a joint radar early-warning initiative involving Israel, despite the absence of formal ties, as part of this initiative.
Arising from this, America’s CENTCOM stitched them together under one unspoken command: defend the region, kill the threat.
That is why this is the Middle East’s worst-kept “secret”.
While Saudi Arabia preaches about the Palestinians by day, at night it trades flight paths and radar signatures with the IDF.
Israeli and Saudi sensors now watch the same Iranian skies, tracking drones that launch from Isfahan, skirt Iraqi airspace, and threaten both nations’ critical infrastructure.
Even the WSJ noted that early-warning data from Saudi and Emirati radars helped Israel calibrate its interception timing to near perfection.
But what unites them is not love—it is survival.
Hence, let’s call it what it is: the birth of a covert deterrence axis.
This is not a diplomatic peace but a power alignment.
The US calls it “regional integration.” Iran calls it betrayal.
But on the ground, it is the only thing standing between civilization and the chaos Tehran exports.
Both Riyadh and Jerusalem understand the stakes.
Iran’s drones already pounded Saudi oil facilities in 2019 and 2021; Hezbollah and the Houthis now act as Tehran’s long arm.
Certainly, without this intelligence pipeline, the next strike could devastate the entire Gulf.
Thus, while diplomats chase mirages of “peace conferences,” Israel and Saudi Arabia are already fighting the same war—from different bunkers, but under the same radar.
The truth is simple and explosive: the Middle East’s future alliance is not Christian or Muslim—it is anti-Iran and it is already here.
And that is precisely why the integration of Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords is not a matter of if but when.
Stemming from this reality. Donald Trump’s recent comments that Riyadh could soon join these diplomatic efforts only confirm what radar data and CENTCOM channels have already revealed: Saudi Arabia has crossed the Rubicon in practice.
The kingdom’s historical demand for a “pathway” toward a Palestinian state has become a diplomatic placeholder, not a strategic barrier.
When your survival depends on shared intelligence, not slogans, normalization becomes a matter of formalizing what already exists.
Trump, ever the realist, simply says out loud what the radars have been whispering for years: the Abraham Accords are expanding, and Saudi Arabia is already in their shadow.
In the end, it won’t be Iran alone that binds Israel and Saudi Arabia together, but the looming menace of Turkey and Qatar—the Brotherhood’s new patrons and the gravest threat to the West, to freedom, and to what remains of democracy in the Middle East.
Jose Lev Alvarez Gómez is an American–Israeli scholar and security analyst whose work centers on Israel Studies and Middle Eastern geopolitics.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience with a Minor in Israel Studies from The American University in Washington, D.C., completed a course in Bioethics at Harvard University, and holds a Medical Degree. He went on to pursue advanced graduate studies, earning three master’s degrees in International Geostrategy and Jihadist Terrorism (INISEG, Madrid), Applied Economics (UNED, Madrid), and Security and Intelligence Studies (Bellevue University, Nebraska).
A former sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces Special Forces “Ghost” Unit and a U.S. Army veteran, Alvarez Gómez combines rigorous academic training with firsthand experience in military and intelligence operations. His multidisciplinary background allows him to analyze security and deterrence through both strategic and empirical lenses.
Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Intelligence Studies and Global Security at Capitol Technology University, where his research explores Israel’s national security doctrine, particularly the Doctrine of the Periphery and the geopolitical implications of the Abraham Accords for regional stability and alliance-building.
Fluent in several languages, Alvarez Gómez has authored over 200 academic and non-academic publications on topics ranging from Israeli defense strategy to global security architecture.
He is a member of the Association for Israel Studies and serves as a geopolitical analyst for multiple radio and television networks across Latin America, where his commentary bridges academic insight and real-world policy relevance.