The Amman Terror Attack.

The hot global issue at the moment is the crash of Kogalymavia flight 7K9268 in Egypt on October 31st (31/10/15).

If this was the result of bomb then at the very least you would expect Saudi Arabia to be placed under international sanctions as Libya was following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Under Article 51 of the United Nations (UN) Charter Russia is entitled to go much further then that and there is an obligation on the UN Security Council (UNSC) - on which both Russia and Egypt currently sit - to impose a Chapter 7 resolution authorising international military force against Saudi Arabia.

The big unknown at the moment is which way the US under President Barack Obama will go. Will it uphold international law and norms of behaviour or will it continue to protect Saudi Arabia - perhaps by using it's UNSC veto.

This has led to quite a lot of discussion within the US.

For example on Saturday (7/11/15) a US Navy nuclear capable "Trident" missile was fired over California where it disrupted civilian air-traffic and prompted lots of discussion amongst social media users who thought it was a UFO.

Then on Sunday (8/11/15) there was a big fire in San Francisco. With the palm trees and desert-style buildings this produced images that did look like someone had launched an air-strike against an oil rich Gulf state such as Saudi Arabia. San Francisco is of course the US' gay capital. It is a popular misconception that gay men aren't masculine or tough enough. It's long been suggested that Obama is not tough enough to be US President.

The reason for the concern over which way Obama will go in response to 7K9268 is because his track-record on Saudi Arabia is laughable.

Many people thought that Saudi Arabia had gone too far when it created the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian government. After all it is a clear violation of international law. However Obama responded not only by giving them permission to continue but also provided US support.

Many people also thought that Saudi Arabia had gone too far when it invaded Yemen in an effort to protect Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). After all once again this was a gross violation of international law. However once again Obama not only gave Saudi Arabia permission to continue he again provided US support.

The most comparable incident to 7K9268 are the terrorist bombings that Saudi Arabia conducted in Volgograd, Russia in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics. Here Obama not only moved to protect Saudi Arabia he also fell over himself in a effort to support them.

This involved overthrowing the government of neighbouring Ukraine and starting a civil war there. Although this itself was a gross violation of international law Obama used it as an excuse to impose sanctions on Russia to punish it for it's opposition to ISIL.

Then the US launched it's campaign against FIFA in an effort to protect the 2022 Qatar World Cup while having Russia stripped of the 2018 World Cup. Qatar 2022 is of course the corrupt bid that by it's own admission cannot be delivered.

As a result a lot of people are half expecting Obama to come out and respond to 7K9268 by announcing that the 224 infidels aboard deserved to die and should be grateful they were allowed to give their lives for the Whabbist cause!

Amid this volatile situation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his today visiting President Obama in the US.

Obama's appeasement of the Gulf States has had an extremely dramatic and negative effect on security for both the Israelis and Palestinians.

With Obama effectively acting as little more then Saudi Arabia's butler the Palestinian Authority (PA) have got it into their heads that all they need to do is spread lies about the future of Al-Asqa Mosque to encourage Palestinians to attack Israelis. When the Palestinians are killed in the course of these attacks it will be used as an excuse for the international community to put pressure on Israel.

After almost three months of these attacks it doesn't look like anyone is falling for it. So the killings go on and on yet no-one's rewarded the PA for it's violence.

So today in Amman, Jordan a Jordanian police captain opened fire at a training camp for PA police recruits killing two American and one South African trainers before killing himself.

This seems to be an attempt to send the message that either Obama will continue to do whatever the Gulf States demand of him or the Gulf States will conduct terror attacks against the US.

The fact a South African was killed seems like the sort of bad luck you get when people start spraying bullets about. By portraying Israel as an apartheid state the Palestinians have found a lot of support in a South African government that sees the Palestinian cause as a way to prop up it's own anti-apartheid credentials.

15:10 on 8/11/15 (UK date).