Première livraisons des #kissinger_cables analysés par Al-Akhbar, et ça tombe bien, ils s’intéressent à l’« arme du pétrole » (the Oil Embargo) que je commençais à peine à étudier. Du coup, je crois que je vais me mettre en vacances…
Revisiting US-Arab Diplomacy : Operation Boulder and the Oil Embargo ►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/revisiting-us-arab-diplomacy-operation-boulder-and-oil-embargo
Contrary to the romanticized memories of Saudi King Faisal Bin Abdulaziz al-Saud’s use of an oil embargo to support the Egyptian-Syrian surprise attack on Israel in 1973, cable documents show that Faisal was vehemently opposed to using oil as a weapon to deter the West from aiding the Zionist state.
When hostilities broke out in October 1973, US officials in the Jeddah embassy noted that Faisal was likely “dismayed at these developments because they may result in (a) setback to his efforts to diminish Arab alignment with [the] Communist Bloc, (b) increased radical criticism of SAG’s [Saudi Arabian government] generally moderate pro-US stance, and (c) perhaps even demands that SAG resort to oil weapon to assist a cause which defeated military and diplomatically on defensive.”
