Professor Alex Bligh, head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Ariel and the former adviser to the Prime Minister on Arab Affairs, told Arutz Sheva that a new opportunity formulating in the Middle East at present. "The whole world is focusing on the obvious issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but is ignoring the underlying internal unrest between the Arab countries," he said.
In what is being perceived a possible olive branch being held out to Israel by the Saudis, Al-Sharq al-Aswat, a London-based international newspaper owned by the Saudi royal family, has stated "There is no longer an Israel-Arab conflict, but an Israel-Turkish-Iranian conflict."