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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must side with the Palestinians , writes Jamal Khanna .
Khanna : The Saudi government wants to bolster its security, but normalization was not, and is not, the only way for the Saud family dynasty to strengthen its hand.
The kingdom is shifting its source of legitimacy, which has long rested on the monarchy’s relationship to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam , Khanna says.
Saudi leadership sees ideologies and movements that encourage transnational meddling as dangerous.
It has, accordingly, banned many of them, including the Muslim Brotherhood .
Instead, Riyadh ’s vision of the global order is technophilic and neoliberal.
Saudi Arabia wants to move beyond its rentier welfare state, which employed two-thirds of the workforce.
Saudi Arabia has refused to join the U.S.-led maritime coalition to stop Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The Saudis expect that their economic interests, over time, will outweigh more militant ideological commitments.
But MBS is not naive about his enemies’ will to harm his country, nor is he naive about their capabilities.
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