Israeli-Saudi Intelligence Ties Stirred, Not Shaken by Iran Rapprochement

Spy agencies will continue to discreetly collaborate when it’s in both their interests

Back in 1982, Pierre Gemayel, the courtly leader of the right-wing Phalange Party, Lebanon’s strongest Christian political group, made what seemed at the time to be a shrewd move. Always on the lookout for a powerful, preferably Western ally to protect Lebanon’s Christians from the neighboring Arabs states and affiliated groups that often meddled in the…