IS SAUDI ARABIA HELPING TO OUST ASSAD?

YNET (via PRAIRE PUNDIT):

Arab-Israeli newspaper al-Sinara reported that, last Tuesday, during a ten day pilgrimage to Mecca, Khaddam met with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. ... In response to claims that the King of Saudi Arabia met with former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam - a recognized opponent of Bashar Assad's regime – Syrian media announced Sunday evening that "Saudi Arabia is trying to create a civil war and implement US orders, in order to besiege Syria and harm its stability."

... In an interview aired by a television station owned by the al-Hariri family in Lebanon, Khaddam spoke to the Syrian people in honor of Eid al-Fiter, promising that "the tyrannical regime is about to collapse" and be replaced with a democratic one.

This is long overdue. Perhaps the House of Saud has found new motivation as a result of the Hizballah-Israel War? After all, Hizballah is a proxy of the Iranians, and the Iranians are not Sunni and NOT ARAB. As such, their expanding Middle Eastern hegemony is a grave threat to the House of Saud. The Saudis are realists: they justifiably fear the Iranians more than they do Israel. To contain Iran, Saudi Arabia knows it must defang Hizballah and Syria. Overthrowing Assad accomplishes both. I TRULY expect this to happen very soon. Before any confrontation with Iran.

I feel that there has been hesitation on our part to foment this regime change because we were afraid that it might cause more chaos in the region, and that this would hurt our efforts in Iraq and in the so-called "occupied territories." I feel that the administration has finally concluded that Shia/Iranian/Syrian efforts at destabilization in Iraq and Gaza and the "West Bank" are so widespread, that we have NOTHING TO LOSE. That's why I feel that Assad's days are numbered. I predict he will be gone by Spring.