The damage done by these sheikhdoms in private was much dire and consequential than their overt acceptance and eventual show of hand. This hand has been played and there is no turning back... yahoo knows it and which is why all this nose rubbing routine on steroids, seemingly for no apparent reason... or is there? Jews are big on symbolism, are they expecting the mashiach? Or perhaps laying groundwork in earnest on behest of someone? But the genie is out of the bottle and no putting it back this time around.
They had fooled many and used the sanctity of the Holy places to their advantage... used it, to soften, brow beat or plain veneration of the place to blackmail and hijacked the mandate of Muslims worldwide. It is high time that the mandate of Hijaz be taken away from these usurper and handed over to a common body of worldwide or at the very least under local patronage, people with historic connection, acclaim and ancestral stewardship.