WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, blocked in their effort to pass a bill disapproving of the Iran deal, tried another tactic : Give President Barack Obama his nuclear deal, but only on the condition that Iran agree to recognize the state of Israel and release the four U.S. citizens it holds.

A problem with this strategy, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brought to a vote on Thursday, is that some of America's strongest allies in the Middle East -- such GOP favorites as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- do not themselves recognize Israel.

So The Huffington Post asked Republican senators if they thought those Gulf states should also be required to recognize Israel in exchange for access to weapons, intelligence sharing or even nuclear secrets, to which the UAE is privy as the result of a 2009 deal.