French President Francois Hollande announced at an official dinner with Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz at the Elysee presidential palace on Monday that Lebanon is a “great but vulnerable country” which “needs security.” The Saudi prince is also his nation’s deputy prime minister and defense minister.
Hollande claimed, “We have come together, Saudi Arabia and France, to help Lebanon on the condition that it also helps itself, for its own security.” For whose security?
The one thing that does ring true, however, is that both Hollande and Saudi King Abdullah have warned the international community of the growing threat posed by the rising Islamic State (IS) terror group, particularly in Syria and Iraq. And the joker in the deck is an accusation by Hollande, who recently accused Syria’s president of being a ‘de facto ally’ of the Islamic State.
If Assad — and by default, Hezbollah and therefore Iran — has become an ally of the Islamic State — what does that mean for Israel?