For decades, ever since President Roosevelt talked with King Saud on the USS Quincy on Feb. 14,1945, the United States has labored under the delusion that the primitive kingdom, in thrall to Wahhabi Islam and largely owned by a single family, was our loyal ally. This fiction was maintained because we didn’t want to look […]
Biden’s Middle East Trip: Not Much to Write Home About
Biden’s much-ballyhooed trip to the Middle East amounted to very little. The Saudis did not agree to increase their oil production. Nor did they make any move toward joining the Abraham Accords, as so many had confidently predicted they would. They insisted that while they would let Israeli planes use Saudi airspace, this should not […]
Biden Brings Up Khashoggi, But What About Nizar Banat?
Reuters has this: “Biden confronts Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi murder, expects action on energy,” by Steve Holland, Aziz El Yaakoubi and Maha El Dahan, Reuters, July 15, 2022: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday [July 15] he told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he held him responsible for the murder of […]
Saudi Journalist Linked to MBS: No State Between Israel and Jordan
A Saudi journalist, Ali Shihabi, known to be close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has just published an article insisting that the world abandon the notion of creating another Arab state – “Palestine” – between Jordan and Israel. A report on this remarkable piece, that appeared in Al-Arabiya news in early June, is here. […]
Adam Schiff: Biden Must Not Visit Saudi Arabia
Joe Biden is scheduled to visit the Middle East sometime this summer – likely in July — and his itinerary, though not fixed in amber, is said to include Israel and Saudi Arabia. And of course he will, during his Israel visit, go to Ramallah to pay his respects to Mahmoud Abbas. Democratic Congressman Adam […]
Saudi Arabia: Crown prince justifies mass executions by saying death penalty is ‘clear teaching in the Quran’
All of this is based on the Qur’an. Note that “in 2019, the kingdom beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly nailed the severed body and head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. […]
Saudis, Emiratis Alarmed by U.S. Capitulation to Iran
Though much attention has been given in the media to Israel’s great unhappiness with the Iran deal that the Americans are close to concluding in Vienna, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are also most unhappy with the revived deal. A report on how they have expressed their alarm and displeasure is here: “Saudi Arabia, UAE […]
Saudis and UAE Won’t Lower Oil Prices Until Biden Helps Them With This Problem
New in PJ Media: America, in these halcyon days of Old Joe Biden’s foundering regime, is in free fall, and the whole world knows it. As PJM’s inimitable Stephen Green put it Wednesday, “The alleged American president’s response to the Ukraine War has been so detrimental to America’s own interests that everyone sees him as weak. On […]
Saudi Crown Prince: ‘I do not care’ what Biden thinks
This is testimony to decline of American influence worldwide, and a Saudi recognition that Biden’s handlers have clearly made a decision to support Iran over Saudi Arabia. “Saudi crown prince says ‘do [sic] not care’ if Biden misunderstands him – The Atlantic,” Reuters, March 3, 2022: DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman […]
Saudi Arabia, UAE won’t lower oil prices unless Biden works with them in Yemen
In Yemen, the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthis are waging jihad against the Sunnis in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Biden’s handlers, anxious to replicate Obama’s disastrous Iran nuclear deal, are making concession after concession to the Iranian mullahs. The Saudis and the UAE have noticed, and want Biden to play ball with them before they will […]