Compare this to the Israeli Ambassador recently praising Christianity in Israel while rabbis remain shamefully silent on the subject.

It looks like the Saudi Heritage Festival, Janadriyah, will have two guest countries next year. One will be Arab and the other a friendly outside country. Iran is poised to receive this honor, but the matter has not been officially decided yet.

The conflict in Tunis was over the Saudi desire to form an Arab Peacekeeping Force to be used in Syria. The conflict arose when the Saudis suggested something along the lines of what the African Union has been trying to form. This would create a semi-permanent force—under Saudi guidance of course.

The US is against this, as it would encourage the type of situation that exists in Bahrain, where Saudi forces are being used to quiet the Arab Spring movement.

That very much looks like the young Arabs in that ultra-conservative country are finding a way to have sex without clerical punishment.

But that has been the historical norm. Our pilots have always been trained to fight superior enemy forces. The problem is that for 38 years they have had no real combat experience. Training is all very fine, but our pilots lack those daily encounters we used to have with Egyptians. IAF has become accustomed to slam-dunk raids against Palestinian and Lebanese targets.

The Saudi monarchy is as doomed as any monarchy. Saudi moderates are as doomed in the short term as any moderates in Arab countries. Saudi nuclear scientists will fall under the rule of Muslim radicals.

After a decade of Iran’s military nuclear program, Israeli still finds it politically problematic to bomb Iran, perhaps the most radical country on earth. Much less we would be able to attack the nuclear infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, the backbone of the world’s oil supply. Our chances are specifically minimized by Saudi Arabia’s claim that it needs nuclear weapons to protect its oil sources, and thus the world’s oil supply.

Iran will have to act quickly to realize its nuclear advantage. Suffering years of isolation in pursuit of nuclear weapons, only to see its new-found power balanced by Saudi nuclear capability, would be an unimaginable loss to the ayatollahs. The Saudi nuclear program could well trigger an Iranian nuclear strike. It remains to be seen where the strike will land.

And the West, which protects the Saudis against Iran, will tolerate that racket.

The Saudi army is irrelevant against Iran, mainly because of its lack of fighting spirit, but also because its low numbers and poor training. Our worry is that the Saudi monarchy is doomed to fail like other monarchies around it, and its weapons will fall into the hands of Islamic extremists, just as Qaddafi’s arsenals ended up with terrorist groups.

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef promised Shiite rioters that failure to exhibit loyalty to the state would result in forfeiture of their citizenship—and the numerous welfare perks that go with it.

The Saudis all but lost their war in Syria when the NATO did not get involved and Assad wiped out the insurgency. The Saudis are also losing Jordan, which will fall to Iranian-supported Hamas. Coupled with the insurgency in its own east, those developments can break the region’s only moderate Islamic state, and the major Arab ally of Israel.