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What was heard underground and with reservations, but was not confirmed, is ultimately true, a reality. It is seen that politics has no limits and does not obey sentimentality, prejudices and general perceptions. The guide is and should be the interests of a state entity. Traditional enemies or friends? Probably not true for everyone and forever. Israel and Saudi Arabia have recently proven it. We have and say.

The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dore Gold1, recently reposted on his Twitter account an article by The New York Times titled Can Israel and the Arab States Be Friends?, as well as an article by The Jerusalem Post titled “Signs of Breaking Down Taboos on Israel in Saudi Arabia.”
As reported in the above publications, although Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have formal diplomatic relations [the Saudis have not even recognized Israel as a state], there are indications that Israel's relations with Saudi Arabia, as well as with other Sunni Arab states, are not only improving, but, after many years of secret contacts between them, could develop into a clearer alliance, as a result of their mutual distrust of Iran. As is known, Saudi Arabia is the leading power of Sunni Islam, while Iran is the leading power of Shiite Islam, and the differences between Sunnis and Shiites in the Middle East in particular, but also in the rest of the world, are so great that they transcend religious differences and interpretations of the Holy Books of Islam and have remained for centuries, from the death of the Prophet and the dispute over his succession to the present day, unbridgeable, destructive and mortally hostile to each other.

It should also be noted here that the state media in Saudi Arabia seem to be adopting a softer stance towards Israel, with unprecedented reports on the prospect of rapprochement between the two countries, referring to statements by Israeli officials and including in their news, fewer negative stories about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians. This shift in the public agenda – from media outlets such as, among others, local or state-owned media outlets such as the Al-Arabiya news network and the Riyadh newspaper – is indicative of the
secret, “under the table” contacts of the Arab kingdom with the Jewish state that have been ongoing for years. And what is the reason? On the one hand, the political perception that Iran is the greatest threat to both Israel and Saudi Arabia, and on the other hand, the change in US policy in the Middle East and the rapprochement and “friendship and cooperation” with Iran. So common interests now unite traditional enemies. The impossible becomes possible. And as traditional British diplomacy used to say, with the inimitable British phlegm of: "We have no friends or enemies, we only have interests."