In a commentary, Dr James M. Dorsey, a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and Senior Fellow at the RSIS, discussed how the Saudi kingdom, with its image tarnished by multiple missteps, is seeking to ensure that it is not perceived as the odd man out as smaller Gulf states establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

…Dr. James M. Dorsey, a Non-Resident Senior Associate at the BESA Center, is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture.