Ultimately, Abdulaziz bin Saud’s unification of the Kingdom in the late 1920’s could even be reversed, making the last eight decades an anomaly in the Arabian Peninsula’s long history of fragmentation. Such an outcome would effectively make Yemen and the rest of the Gulf states ungovernable, allowing the Sunni-Shia confrontation that is currently unfolding in the Levant to overwhelm the region.
最终，阿卜杜勒国王（Abdulaziz bin Saud）20世纪20年代末统一沙特王国的大业可能毁于一旦，过去八十年将成为阿拉伯半岛长期分裂史的一段例外时期。这样的结果既有可能让也门和其他海湾国家变得不可治理，将目前正在勒旺（Levant）上演的逊尼派-什叶派冲突席卷整个地区。