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The people cheering for the Houthis to “destroy” Saudi Arabia need to answer one question: who actually benefits? The Houthis don’t represent Yemen. They hold roughly a third of the country, and plenty of Yemenis are fighting them, not with them. Cheering them on as some pan-Islamic liberation force erases their own record of violence against the Yemeni civilians who refuse to fall in line. And the people calling for Gulf destruction conveniently forget who actually fought Israel. Saudi troops went into the 1948 war. Shaykh Faisal led the 1973 oil embargo, a real economic weapon against the West over this exact issue, decades before any of today’s keyboard revolutionaries were born. Saudi Arabia still refuses normalization without a Palestinian state attached. Qatar never normalized at all, and Israel has called them hostile for it. Most of the Gulf has not relations with Israle; Qatar paid Gaza’s civil servant salaries. So what happens if Saudi Arabia actually collapses? Not Riyadh’s elite, the ordinary people, the millions of migrant workers across the Muslim world whose remittances depend on these economies functioning, the institutions and causes these states fund across the region as well as billions in humanitarian aid. None of that gets better. It gets worse, and it gets filled by whoever’s left standing in the wreckage, exactly like Iraq, exactly like Syria, exactly like Yemen itself. We live under a nation-state system. Every state puts its own interest first, that’s what a state is. Apparently, unless you’re willing to sacrifice your own population, infrastructure and economy in a suicidal war you cannot guarantee winning, against a nuclear-armed Israel backed by the West. you’re an Israeli ally. The actual question was never “why won’t they martyr themselves fighting a nuclear-armed power with full Western backing.” It was always “what’s the honest calculation they’re making,” and the honest calculation includes funding, diplomacy, and refusing normalization, not suicide. Destroying these states helps no Palestinian. It only helps whoever wants to watch the whole region burn.