Saudi Arabia is also not full of bloodthirsty white supremacist fascists like the zionist entity. It’s a bad replacement because it’s population doesn’t see itself as white, isn’t democratically represented by the princes (democratically the Jewish population of the zionist entity fully supports the genocide, apartheid, and colonial expansion against Arabs by contrast). And Saudi Arabia doesn’t guilt Europe into supporting it on the basis of some past atrocity or history of racism.

i don’t think the genocidal settler colony part of things is necessary for the geopolitical purpose israel serves the greater empire. I don’t even think the expansionism and hot genocide is necessary for the settler colony part if they weren’t in a hurry, but all the nazis here and over there are in it for the love of the game