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Trump also recently threatened to bomb Amin, who were acting as mediators initially.

So, yeah, I wanted to go through all the main GCC actors and get your analysis of...

their behavior during this war, what they want to happen when it's over.

Right.

We're not the most effective these days, let's say.

Yeah.

So thank you for kind of laying that out.

There are so many questions I have.

Really, this is an American-Israeli war, even if the United States kind of holds the final say.

But that Saudi Arabia will not participate in the way that the Trump administration assumes.

Right.

And I think it's important for listeners to understand the connection, why the Palestinian issue holds such weight for Gulf leaders.

You mentioned, for example, ethnic and sectarian divides in particular countries.

I'm thinking Bahrain or, you know, rising unemployment and dissent and discontent in places like Saudi Arabia.

It's because either explicitly or implicitly, the Palestinian issue in some parts of the Gulf is connected to people's anti-regime sentiment.

which, of course, the Iranian regime is very good at stoking and exploiting.

Let's say like there was so much rhetoric coming out of UAE, like government officials and associated influencers and things like that, that was attempting to kind of change the image of the Palestinian community.