NonCredibleDefense
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Saudis are in long term proxy war against Iran in Yemen, but it's also Iran funding their proxies everywhere and stirring shit. Saudis like to be on good terms with US so they tend to play lawfully, at least when they're not assassinating journalists or committing human rights abuses. Basically lots of Middle East is caught in regional power struggles between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and to some degree Egypt, and also Pakistan if you zoom out a little, but they tend to be less involved. Main covert shit-stirrer is Iran however. Qatar and UAE also try to pull their own things, but they only really have money (and Al Jazeera, owned by Qatar)
Egypt is currently basically a dictatorship and Hamas, which is iranian proxy, has very good relations with Muslim Brotherhood, which is part if opposition. Sisi generally wants to have normal relations with Israel, because stable Israel is for Egypt a buffer against many of their enemies and also he doesn't like to have islamist bombings if he can help it
Jordan is a relatively stable western ally, they have very stable government, so stable that they didn't have arab spring induced change of government (i'll leave for you to guess why). They are however broke compared to Israel which limits their options. There are french airbases there and french radar data were used in shooting down drones, and Jordanian air force intercepted some of them