Sa'udi Counter-posturing in a Post Abrahamic Accord Environment - Ensuing Sunni-Shiite Causes of Future Conflicts

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jun 2, 2022 at 14:36

Of the many causes of the still simmering disquiet in the region that holds both the Israeli future and the non-Jewish populations at bay is the refugee status, which still bears the psychological mistreatment of both sides in that none can agree who was damaged the most when large Arabic populations evacuated the Mandate territories with a promise of return in order to clear the 'killing' fields for the attacking Arabic neighbors to squash the Jewish refugees escaping from the rejections of European nations after the Third Reich's failure to do the same. When the Arab incursion failed in its attempt to 'purge' the escapees and the Nation of Israel was formed in its rebirth, the perception of refugee status changed dramatically and Jordan and other regional national entities bore the brunt of what do we do now. International diplomacy failed t produce a desired result and thereby forcing the Sa'udis to adopt their 'brothers and sisters' approach of absorbing what Jordan, or Egypt, could not. At least, the Sa'udis recognized the issue in allowing Arabic refugees, however referenced, a place for true refuge.
Counter-intuative to this is the Iranian Islamic Regime's alternative claim to the existence of Israel to exist, a non-Arabic attempt to expand a former ideological claim to rule in the Middle East and the further claim to Shiite supremacy of an Islamic empire in spite of all other comers that try to make their own claims.
This comes back to the potential claim of the Sa'udis; are they the arbiters of a refugee return or do they risk losing that argument for having absorbed so many brothers and sisters in the intervening years and thereby costing Jordan their argument also?
Actually, it's all academic, since Jerusalem will never lose its Zionist status, all refugee status notwithstanding.

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