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That’s the thing, increasingly they do get along. One of the major reasons that Hamas pulled the trigger on October 7 was to make sure that accords between KSA and Israel didn’t proceed. One after another countries in the region have made peace with Israel and vice versa, with notable exceptions that aren’t at peace with anyone.

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The crux of the instability is that the ruling classes of these nations have made peace while the populations in each of them have not.

That’s the entire strategy behind the Oct 7 attack and why it was intended to disrupt normalization. There was a miscalculation on Hamas’s side of both how successful Oct 7 would be (lots of military personnel deployed to protect settlers elsewhere, Air Force on strike due to Bibi’s attempted coups, and apparently Bibi ignored several warnings from partner states), and how vicious Israel’s response would be.

But the basic theory of their attack “worked.”

The leadership-public support gap in KSA is much like the situation vis a vis the United States actually, where Israel is quickly becoming persona non grata across the entire political spectrum for Americans <30

Does your “not at peace with anyone” label apply in both directions now or just one?

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