The only reason for this is that Hezbollah are Shiite.
For once I completely agree with you BRTD.
Thet didn't do it in the past, which marks it as an improvement.
Shiites weren't in the lead of the events in the past either. And, most definitely, they weren't taking over the allegiances of some of the Sunnis, which they seem to be successfully doing now (look at the Hamas/Hezbullah cooperation). Saudi clerics do, probably, feel threatened.
What seems might be happening is, the pendulum might start going back from the religious movement to a nationalist movement (which it was until fairly recently). Pan-arabism has been on the decline, but that might have been halted.
