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The Gulf’s Cold War: How Saudi-UAE rivalry is tearing the region apart - opinion

At its core, the Saudi-UAE feud reflects fundamentally incompatible visions of regional order.

 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives The President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022.
VISION 2030: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in ore deposits, rare earth elements reserves - report

 US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman shake hands during a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025.

Saudi normalization with Israel: Is it farther than ever? - opinion

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman attends the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington in November 2025.

Forget embassies: How trains, tunnels could link Israel and Saudi Arabia - opinion


Giving wings to the Israel-Saudi alliance

There may be many obstacles to this alliance, but courage, commitment and dogged determination can yet give it wings.

Members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family and dignitaries attend an allegiance pledging ceremony for Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Mecca.

How significant are Israel's relations with the Arab world?

Israel has found in the past that its apparently warm relations can quickly turn sour.

Rabbi Moshe Sebbag shows a Torah scroll to Secretary General of the Muslim World League Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Kareem al-Issa and Khalid bin Mohammed Al Angari, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to France, during thier visit to the Great Synagogue of Paris this week.

Saudi Arabia hopes US will not recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel

"The recognition will have very serious implications and will be provocative to all Muslims' feelings."

A view of the Western Wall plaza, the Dome of the Rock and the top of Al Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Inside The Prospective Israel-Saudi Arabia Rapprochement

Recent events suggest the Muslim kingdom and the Jewish State may be headed for normalization

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi minister calls out Hezbollah, says Israeli-Palestinian peace deal 'not rocket science'

Jubeir: "Seventy percent of the settlers who are on the Green Line remain in Israel, and the other 30 percent - you offer them compensation and work out housing, and they can move to Israel."

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir speaks at a briefing with reporters at the Saudi Embassy in London, Britain

Skeptical of the Saudis

The Saudis have an old trick...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman attends a signing ceremony between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (not pictured) at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 20, 2017

Castles in the sand

The Saudi crown prince’s reformist ambitions bring to mind the precedents of post-Shogun Japan, post-Ottoman Turkey and post-Mao China – with a few exceptions, some potentially fateful.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, on October 24

IDF Chief of Staff: Israel willing to share intelligence with Saudis

Eisenkot made the statement in a rare interview with Saudi-owned newspaper 'Elaph.'

Gadi Eisenkot

Report: Saudi document lays out plans for peace with Israel

Foreign Ministry paper allegedly offers peace with the Jewish state in exchange for US pressure on Iran.

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman enter the State Dining Room of the White House

Analysis: Bahrain hopes overtures to Israel and Jews will cover up human rights abuses

While one might be tempted to think that the king has undergone a spiritual conversion to Zionism, in fact the Bahraini posture cannot be detached from realpolitik considerations.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) during the first Gulf Cooporative Council's (GCC) " GCC British Summit", in Sakhir Palace Bahrain, December 7, 2016.