As Thomas Wichtor sees it, one of the key factors behind the success of the quiet Saudi-Israeli alliance has been the development of a new generation of tactical weapons and munitions, developed by the Israelis and financed by Arab money.
These weapons specifically are drone-related reconnaissance and munitions-carrying drone weapons capable of isolating, observing and attacking targets within the close urban environments of Middle Eastern warfare against insurgents.
The Americans didn't develop these weapons because they didn't need them, and they have concentrated more on longer-range drone warfare on a strategic level.
By contrast the Israelis (and increasingly the Gulf Arabs) realize that in the Youtube age especially, they must play by a different set of rules in urban warfare, where there cannot be flagrant civilian causalities as a side-effect of an operation, one that can be spread virally across the Internet within hours.
If they want to eliminate the Iranian backed subversives, they will need to do it a smart way, they realized.
Also there is a recognition that all the uniformed forces must be seeming to be Arab. This is to create a proud, honor-bound command of Arab special forces with the higher ethic of the great (benevolent_ warrior model of the American, British, and other western special forces. The idea---an old one---is a powerful warrior tends to be a humane warrior.
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