I think for many there has always been an assumption of this. Saudi Arabia has funneled money in the past to terrorist organizations opposed to Israel and the West.

>opposed to Israel and the West

Except that Israel despite being a logical target has mysteriously avoided terror attacks from Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

Does any country in the middle east have a good reason to care that much about Israel? Does Israel truly have a reason to care that much about any other country in the Middle East? As long as Netanyahu's expansionist desires are satisfied by shaving away pieces of his immediate neighbors, US invasion - which has happened to a few countries already - is a more real and present threat.

Of course, why SA would think that terrorism will keep the US out of the Middle East, that's the missing piece of this picture and may invalidate it.

> Does any country in the middle east have a good reason to care that much about Israel? Does Israel truly have a reason to care that much about any other country in the Middle East?

The answer to both of your questions is Iran. Which makes Israel and ISIS strange bedfellows, when Israeli fighter jets dropped bombs on Iranian-backed militas fighting ISIS in Syria.

Before Netanyahu can begin dubiously shaving off little slices of Iran, he'd have to dubiously shave off all of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and northern Saudi Arabia. I have heard about the nukes thing but neither country would stand to gain anything even if the exchange was one-sided.

Netanyahu hasn't been prime minister since June 2021.

This is the current prime minister:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Bennett

Although the background isn't that much different from Netanyahu.

Retaliation is too easy for Israel, it would bring the war too close to home. The US needs the Saudis more than Israel does.

Surprising no one ever. I think Family Guy had commentary on this exact point like 15 years ago

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Allegations or evidence?

> Edit: why does a call for transparency (...)

Perhaps because it does not read at all as a noble call for transparency and instead reads like cynical whataboutism that adds nothing to the discussion.

Talking about it so vaguely will just make all the current believers smugly say yes while everyone else smugly says no. I am perceiving a real piping hot morning mug of smug.

You mean the part where they took a piece of plastic and classified it as a machine gun, and told anyone who bought one to destroy it or go to prison? Meanwhile anyone with enough practice can bump fire a normal gun. All while not compensating a single person without threat of turning law abiding citizens into felons over night.

That's definitely not why this specific event is discussed.

Probably the "how did all that shit get up there" problem is why the story vanished, relatively speaking.

Mass shootings are so common in the US (notwithstanding the anomalous ceasefire forced by COVID) that talking about them is like talking about the weather. Just another Tuesday blurs together with all of the other Tuesdays.

And why bother talking about them when "conversation" always follows the same tedious partisan flowchart?