Zeroing Out and Changing the Rules of the Game
In his article about the US President’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, a prominent New York Times columnist claimed that it would change the rules of the game in the region. Regardless of the “story” of peace, the rules of the game in the region have clearly totally changed. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz spearheaded this shift. Since the AlUla Agreement, the US-Gulf and US-Arab summits, then the Gulf-Arab summits with China, and most recently, the Arab Summit in Jeddah, regional dynamics have totally changed.