Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

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1. The leaked docs document the establishment of a security mechanism which included Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar, with Kuwait and Oman listed as potential partners.

   The mechanism was essentially a secret, institutionalized regional system of meetings, training, and information sharing, designed to counter the Iran and strengthen military ties between the Arab states and Israel.

   One of the documents describes international training in identifying and destroying underground tunnels, a technology used by Hamas in Gaza, and another deals with training held last September in Egypt, in which soldiers from the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, India, Britain and Qatar participated.

2. You know when European nations were shaking their fist in the air at Israel to make college students happy while simultaneously doing nothing because they know close ties to a liberal democracy / appeasing the US is more useful than not?

   This is the Middle Eastern version of this. Realpolitiks can be weird.

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