Saudi Arabia: When it comes to Israel and Iran, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

The House of Saud does not want a major conflagration, and it knows that it's one of the targets of an Iranian slaughter. That's because the ferocity with which Shia and Sunni Muslims hate each other is almost equal to their joint hatred for the Jews. It's very likely that the Wahhabi clerics understand this point—something that the tea leaves predicted in 2017 when Saudi Arabia's grand mufti denounced Hamas, an Iranian puppet, and forbade war against the Jews. It's my guess, therefore, that the reason the Saudis openly announced their support for Israel is that Prince bin Salman got approval from the clerics to do so.

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