A top Kuwaiti strategist has asserted that the Arab world would be best off if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Interviewed in the daily Al Siyassah (as reported in Ha’aretz), Sami al-Faraj, a former adviser to the Kuwaiti government, suggested that an attack on Iran would be a good thing--especially if Israel executed it:

Honestly speaking, they would be achieving something of great strategic value for the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] by stopping Iran’s tendency for hegemony over the area . . . nipping it in the bud by Israeli hands would be less embarrassing for us than if the Americans did it.

Iran is a big problem for the entire Arab world, al-Faraj continued, and the last thing the Arab states need is a nuclear Iran. “The question is what would it do if it were a nuclear nation? We have to call a spade a spade and say that burying the military nuclear Iranian project is in the interest of GCC states, and other countries in the area,” he added.

For what it’s worth.