While it is a favorite pastime for many Lebanon and Syria watchers to speculate on the magical benefits of a Saudi-Syrian rapprochement, the current upheavals in the Middle East have once again thrown into stark relief the fact that Riyadh and Damascus are ensconced in rival camps, led by the US and Iran respectively, competing over the future of the region and the shape of its strategic alignment. This has been evident in Saudi-Syrian media tensions over the crises in Bahrain and Libya.
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