I never said anything about Iran vs KSA though
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Yes, Israel is still the most powerful country in the region, as they have been for decades. I was simply saying that their hegemony demonstrably isn't as strong as it was in the past, and that, in a hypothetical scenario where the rest of the region would more or less unite against them (not attacking them) their actions would be much, much more restrained then they ever was in the first few decades of Israel's existence, when that was mostly the case.
True. What I meant is that, just a decade or two ago, Israel wouldn't bother doing even that, at all, given how much stronger they were than everyone around them. Not so much now, when most of the region is modernizing and Israelis actually need to work with others to contain Iran.
Yeah, but that was the US curbstomping Iraq to hell and back, not Israel
. Iraq was quite powerful at the time, but it was obviously absolutely nowhere near the US, especially given that the US was still riding on the unipolar moment at the time and was still not just a superpower, but a hyperpower. Of course it walked over Iraq with no problem.
It is what it is
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