{"id":4677,"date":"2019-01-08T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2019-01-08T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:51:07","slug":"how-gulf-states-hatched-plan-with-israel-to-rehabilitate-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/08\/how-gulf-states-hatched-plan-with-israel-to-rehabilitate-assad\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW GULF STATES HATCHED PLAN WITH ISRAEL TO REHABILITATE ASSAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASSAD-e1546990834435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/ASSAD-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p>By David Hearst<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was also convened in response to a noticeable \u201ccooling\u201d of relations between US President Donald Trump and Riyadh since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has publicly stood by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the CIA and members of the US Congress hold responsible for Khashoggi\u2019s killing<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/saudi-uae-egypt-israel-syria-khashoggi-1467976694<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Middle East Eye By David Hearst 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/08\/how-gulf-states-hatched-plan-with-israel-to-rehabilitate-assad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW GULF STATES HATCHED PLAN WITH ISRAEL TO REHABILITATE ASSAD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}