Francis Foster

The Saudis want to trade with Israel.

And the other reason is they have a common enemy, which is Iran.

All the other countries, particularly the Gulf countries, they fear Iran a lot more than they fear Israel.

a lot more than they care about Israel.

Iran is their number one problem.

It's a threat to them.

And so if you can get the entire Middle East, other than Iran, maybe Qatar, I don't know, together, working together, they don't then have the incentive to continue this conflict because they're trading, they've got way more to lose by this continuing.

So that's the end goal.

The difficulty is as long as Hamas is in power,

I mean, they did October 7th to prevent that from happening, basically.

They wanted to derail the long-term aspiration for peace.

And Iran wanted them to do that because Iran doesn't want those countries to work together.

Right.

Yeah.

And then the crazies come in.

Yeah.

And you've got this, you know, 7th century shit going on.

Oil companies.

I hope they feel bad.

I hope the Ayatollah just wakes up one day and goes, ah, I've been a bad guy.