That’s true, and the monstrous, terrorist pseudostates like the PA and Hamas are also faces of the Arab regimes. Despite our usual stance around here, there is moderation among the Muzzies — but only when they need something.
The rumors (3 or 4 years ago?) about the IAF repurposing an obsolete airbase in n. Saudi Arabia was denied at the time, and may have been just some anti-Saud agitprop, but it’s likely that Israel has been participating on the down-low with Saudi AF and anti-terrorism training, and that it has been going on on for some years now, perhaps as long ago as the Gulf War.
Remember years ago, when that self-proclaimed Mahdi took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca? It took two weeks and the efforts of a good chunk of their entire army for the House of Saud to prevail against those nuts, in a tiny little spot, with no resupply for the jihadists. The fighting in the honeycomb of underground catacombs was so awful that the government had a construction company (ironically, I think it was Bin Laden’s) fill most of those tunnels and chambers with concrete.
The Saudis got so desperate they obtained help in the form of analysis from three agents of French intelligence; also the Wahhab imams extracted some concessions from the regime in order to declare the “Mahdi” and his followers apostate. If the House of Saud had been on the ball, they’d killed the Wahhab imams first, then the Mahdists, and afterward started systematically clearing the oilfields of Shia (that’s where the Saudi Shia live, figures, huh?) and resettled the entire oilpatch with foreign workers from, for example, the United States. Generally speaking, US workers don’t blow up their workplaces, start oilwell fires, or strap bombs to themselves.
Oh no,...this is reallly getting dangerous.
Wasn’t it someone in the Obama Administration that leaked Israel’s plans to use Ajerbajan or Armenia or somewhere around there to launch an attack on Iran that was then scrapped as it was made public. Don’t think the Israel will forget about that.