the Eastern province is where all the oil is, right? A million or so Indians and Pakis in Saudi, right? How about arming the slaves and giving them a state there?
Years ago, Peres or Rabin recommended that India start a policy of settlements in Kashmir.
Saudi runs on foreigners: American/European technologists, doctors,teachers from India and Pakistan, labor from Filipinos to Bangladeshis. even the stewardesses on some of the Gulf airlines are from malaysia, pakistan, india.