On Friday, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, with its Article 5-style clause ostensibly treating an armed attack on any one of them as an attack on all.
We have now covered part one and part two of the implications.
Now it’s time to look at it from Israel’s perspective.
Israel is at war on multiple fronts, diplomatically isolated in the West, and ten weeks away from an election where Netanyahu may lose power.
Into that moment arrives a signed defense compact joining NATO’s second-largest army, the Muslim world’s only nuclear arsenal, and the world’s largest oil exporter.
We will walk through the implications from Israel’s perspective and explore questions that the Israeli public will have to answer in the October elections.
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