Whether it "bores" you or not, Saudi Arabia is responsible for about a quarter of the world's oil supply, and is the only country with sufficient production overcapacity to stabilize oil prices in the case of a sudden supply deficit.
Whether it "bores" you or not, Israel has somewhere between 100 and 400 nuclear warheads, and is surround by 50 million screaming Arabs that want to destroy her. (It probably won't interest you, either, that the president of Iran several months ago publicly mooted the possibility of nuking Israel, suggesting it may be acceptable for the more populous Arab world to accept the counter-strikes in exchange for the elimination of Israel.)
If, God forbid, Israel's nukes ever fall on or near the Arabs' oil fields, I suspect the results of that (a killing global depression) will grab your attention.