Sounds like they fear Turkey more than anyone else.
REVEALED: How Gulf states hatched plan with Israel to rehabilitate Assad
David Hearst
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A billboard in Damascus reads: "If the country's dust speaks, it will say Bashar al-Assad" (AFP)
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have hatched a plan with Israel to welcome Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the Arab League to marginalise the regional influence of Turkey and Iran, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal.
The diplomatic initiative was agreed at a secret meeting held in a Gulf capital last month which was attended by senior intelligence officials from the four countries including Yossi Cohen, the director of Mossad, Gulf sources with knowledge of the meeting have told MEE.
The meeting was also convened in response to a noticeable “cooling†of relations between US President Donald Trump and Riyadh since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.
Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-uae-egypt-israel-syria-khashoggi-1467976694
