AK, not an unreasonable summary.
The unholy alliance between the UK, the USA and Saudi Arabia.
The equally poisoned one twixt the US and Israel
Without US Support of Israel what would you expect to happen? I expect you would have a holy war to end all wars with much of the ME glassified.
Of the Saudi case, they would probably turn to China and while that is probably popularly
bad. It might not necessarily be bad that the world's manufacturer gets cheap oil to replace dirty coal. Who knows?