Media attention to attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on Saturday has diverted attention from other schemes that could really change the rules of the game in the Middle East, a Western scholar said.
The Slovenian philosopher and critic Slavoj Cicek, in his article in the British newspaper The Independent, that one of those plans recently announced Israel's intention to annex large parts of the West Bank characterized by the fertility of its territory, which would mean that all talk about a two-state solution is nothing more than "empty talk" intent Including a "blackout" on a colonial project with a contemporary definition.
Saudi complicity is silent
He said Israel was unveiling its project in light of what he called "silent Saudi complicity" which is yet another testimony that a new axis of evil is forming in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
Cicek, a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, said the emergence of this axis is "the real changer" of the rules of the game.
Commenting on Saturday's attacks by the Yemeni Houthi group, the author argues that the incident could be a somewhat game-changing act in the region, as long as it partially disrupted global oil supplies and made a large-scale armed conflict in the Middle East very likely.
The hand that hurts
However, Cicek is seeking some excuse for the Houthis to launch such attacks even after international condemnation, as it alleged that the group held Saudi Arabia from the hand that hurts, according to the article.
According to the writer, the destruction inflicted by Saudi Arabia on Yemen and the subsequent response of the Houthi group is merely an integral part of the "geopolitical tricks", stressing again that Israel's intention to redraw the West Bank is a game-changing measure.
The soft planes targeted last Saturday two oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, one of them a huge processing plant for crude oil, which led to a decline in global oil production by 5%, has adopted the Houthi group in Yemen attack.