Moderate Arabs plan alliance to deal with Iran, Syria

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: September 12, 2006 | Copyright information

Samuel Segev

TEL AVIV -- One month after the end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a subtle, undeclared struggle between the Iran-Syria axis and the moderate Sunni Arab countries in the region has emerged.

Jordan has taken the lead and is trying to forge a new axis composed of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan and several Persian Gulf principalities. Jordan's King Abdullah has already explored the idea with Saudi Arabia, and Egypt's President Hosni Muba...

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