Ashley Perry on Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and Israel

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1. 7:03around a month ago, Saudi Arabia signed what was called the Mecca Joint Defense
2. 7:07Agreement with Turkey and Pakistan.
3. 7:10Um, and that was supposed to basically, uh, say that if one of the countries is
4. 7:16attacked, something similar to NATO, then the other countries have to come to their
5. 7:20defense. Well, what we've basically seen is like, unfortunately, many of these types
6. 7:26of, um, agreements in the Arab world, in the Muslim world, um, basically they're not
7. 7:32worth the paper they're written on. We've seen many defense pacts, uh, in the Middle
8. 7:36East, or as I said, in the Arab or Muslim world, and usually they don't come, you
9. 7:41know, with any real significance. Uh, and really Saudi Arabia learned that, um, to
10. 7:47its own detriment, uh, this week when it called on Turkey and Pakistan to live up to
11. 7:52the, uh, letter of the agreement, and neither of them did anything except send
12. 7:57communiqués and condemn the attacks, et cetera, et cetera.

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