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Powergamz1 -> RE: Primer on the Middle East (2/9/2013 2:48:05 PM)
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Upon the death of Abdullah, all sorts of interesting claims will no doubt be raised. When the oil goes (or more likely, when the Chinese reach full capacity in the Sudan) all bets will be off.
Right now the complaints you have mentioned seem to have a lot of currency, and little traction... that is of course subject to change.
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Since an attack on the Sauds is an attack on Mecca and Medina, and on their supply of oil to the outside world, 'bloody' is putting in mildly. I don't imagine that they see the need for reconciliation, as long as they hold that hand.
And they do need to intermarry for purely genetic reasons, it can't be pleasant getting those medical procedures all the time.
The House of Saud's notorious inbreeding aside (I see the Saudis are ranked as the most inbred population on the planet by medical studies on such matters) I was referring to the Jordanian rulers being Sayids (and also claimed to be the rightful rulers of part of "Saudi" Arabia. There are also other Sayid nobility/families around the world, even in Europe.
Some of the bloodier conflicts in Europe and other lands were ended but such marriages.
As for a revolt, I don't think it would matter about the oil, recall that certain extremists seized the shrines some years ago, and it took the Saudis, along with French Special Forces much of a week to drag them out.
And when the oil does start to end, the Wahhabi Disneyland the Sauds have built will come tumbling down, it is certainly the most luxurious welfare state on the planet for the people, and that itself will not be a pretty thing, and the social unrest could be easily turned against the House of Saud by any number of interests.
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