Israeli efforts to prevent Trump from supplying Saudi Arabia with an atomic reactor















Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves no chance to praise Israel's relations with "moderate Sunni" Arab states, in a clear reference to Saudi Arabia, the latest of which was his astonishment at Saudi Arabia's approval for the Indian airline to fly to Israel through the Saudi airspace, Toward Tel Aviv on Thursday.

On the other hand, when it comes to national security issues or Saudi attempts to strengthen its military power, under the guise of confronting the Iranian threat, Netanyahu's remarks quickly evade the common interests that bind Israel and "moderate Sunni states" to confront the Iranian threat.
In this context, the newspaper "Haaretz" Israel on Friday, that with the start of the visit of Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to the United States, and the Saudi talk about the trend towards building a nuclear power Saudi Arabia to confront Iran.

 Israel and its friends in the US Congress have launched a major campaign aimed at preventing US President Donald Trump from accepting a deal to sell Saudi Arabia an atomic power plant, fearing it could lead to Saudi Arabia acquiring technology to develop nuclear weapons infrastructure.

Although Israel's position is not new and is rooted in the Israeli-American dispute over the nuclear deal with Iran, Israel claimed that the agreement meant launching a nuclear arms race in the region, but Haaretz said the new Israeli campaign also relied on Mohammed bin Salman's "We want equal rights like other countries," he said
 According to the Israeli interpretation of this statement, if Washington insisted on continuing to work in accordance with the nuclear agreement with Tehran and not to get out of it, and allow Iran to enrich uranium at low levels, Saudi Arabia also has the right to obtain it.

The newspaper pointed to the Saudi aspiration under the plan 2030 to provide alternative sources of oil energy, and thus the establishment of 16 nuclear reactors to produce electricity and alternative energy, starting with the construction of two reactors production capacity of between 12 and 16 thousand megawatts.

Israel and its supporters in the United States claim that Saudi Arabia, which has the second largest oil reserves, does not need atomic reactors.

According to Haaretz, Saudi Arabia's nuclear deterrence formula puts the United States and the Trump administration in a difficult dilemma. If Saudi Arabia rejects the offer, Riyadh can go to other countries such as Pakistan, with which Saudi Arabia has excellent relations, and perhaps also China and Russia. Sees a problem in selling this technology to Saudi Arabia even beyond the required nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes.

However, the arguments raised by Tel Aviv in its opposition to the deal are leading a diplomatic campaign and putting pressure on Trump and members of the US Congress to reject the deal by claiming that Saudi Arabia, even if it is now considered the closest state to the United States, lacks internal stability. Radicalism and radicalism that enjoys freedom of action within Saudi Arabia.

 The conclusion of the deal and the construction of atomic reactors in Saudi Arabia means the provision and rehabilitation of a generation of Saudi engineers and scientists in this field (which Saudi Arabia currently lacks). In the future, they can develop expertise to build a nuclear project for military purposes. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia has hired the services of three US lobby companies that claim that Saudi Arabia can buy a ready-made reactor and therefore does not need to qualify local experts.

Haaretz said that the US State Department understands the Israeli position and claim before Trump to compel Saudi Arabia to accept American supervision and supervision. Until Saudi Arabia's maturity or balance of terror against Iran, Washington will have to reach an agreement with Riyadh not only on the issue of uranium enrichment, but also in ensuring US supervision and control, such as those currently imposed on Iran under the nuclear deal.
But from the point of view of Israel, the absence of censorship, as in the case of Pakistan and Iraq, at the time, and North Korea and Israel, which have not signed the Convention and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

 Given the Israeli intelligence failure to discover Libya's efforts and Libya's approach to nuclear capacity building before the US-British agreement with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime and the late discovery of the Syrian nuclear reactor at Deir al-Zour, various countries can make significant progress in developing nuclear capabilities and weapons. Without any international monitoring and without revealing the various intelligence services.

States that have reactors for peaceful purposes can also move to develop reactors for military purposes as well.

According to the report, Tel Aviv hopes that Saudi Arabia will accept a military and security alliance that guarantees Saudi Arabia's safety and order. According to Haaretz, the contradiction lies in Saudi Arabia's opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran.

 Riyadh, which insists on its desire to deter Tehran, is supposed to agree to the nuclear deal and convince Trump not to break the agreement, which provides it with the time needed to build a Saudi nuclear power without risking a regional war that could turn into an international war.

On the other hand, Israel, which is urging Trump to get out of the agreement and cancel or modify it, may find itself in the face of two nuclear powers and not only against Iran, which declared that if the agreement is canceled, it will resume its nuclear project.

 It is noteworthy in this context, the statement of the Chief of Staff of the army of occupation, General Gadi Eisenkot on Wednesday, with the recognition of Israel
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