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The logo of Amnesty International, a human-rights group that has embarked on a campaign to boycott products from Judea and Samaria, in addition to a weapons embargo on Israel. Credit: Facebook.

Tel Aviv court decision is a setback to dubious accusations against NSO

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Since at least 2018, Amnesty International had gone on a mission trying to expose the Israeli cybersecurity Pegasus software producer NSO Group/Q Cyber Technologies of allegedly playing a role in facilitating human-rights abuses, in...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Tel Aviv University touts ‘unprecedented’ Hebrew paper by Saudi academic

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In what Tel Aviv University is calling an “unprecedented” development, the latest issue of one of its academic journals includes an article in Hebrew by a senior Saudi academic. The paper, titled “Contribution to Prophet Muhammad’s...
Muslims visit at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Feb. 28, 2020. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

What is Israel’s next move as Turks and Saudis duel over Jerusalem?

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Tensions have run increasingly high between the Jordanians and Saudis on one side, and the Turks and Qataris on the other over control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. “Turkey’s neo-Ottominism in its foreign policy...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Credit: Leopaltik1242/Wikimedia Commons.

Rep. Ilhan Omar laments Israeli, Saudi influence in Trump administration

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) compared Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Trump administration to that of Israel’s, lamenting the money both have invested in pushing their policies. Ahead of the Tuesday publication of her book This Is...
A promotional image for the series “Umm Haroun” (“The Mother of Aaron”), aired by the private Saudi-owned satellite channel MBC for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Source: Arab Media.

Middle Eastern Jewry and the Arab world

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A drama series broadcast in the Gulf states during the month of Ramadan, “Umm Haroun“ (“Aaron’s Mother”), tells the story of a Jewish family in Kuwait during the 1940s under Arab-Muslim rule. On a small...

Saudi writer: We care about national interests, not the Palestinians

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Saudi writer Abdulhameed Al-Ghobain said in a May 10, 2020 interview on BBC Arabic TV (United Kingdom) that the Saudi public is well-informed today, and that it no longer cares about the Palestinian cause...

Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US: A slippery oil triangle

OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, held a meeting in Vienna on Feb. 6 to try to reach agreement on oil prices and production levels. The meeting ended without agreement following Russia’s refusal to...
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The myth of Saudi moderation

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They almost had me believing. The Saudis, that is. Last week, they almost had me believing that they are truly becoming moderate and really do accept Israel’s existence. Then the mask came off, and my...
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman during their meeting at the White House on March 14, 2017. Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead.

Report: Trump warned Saudis to cut oil supplies or could lose military support

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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil production, Congress could force him to remove troops from the...
Sheikh Muhammad al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League, along with the American Jewish Committee, visit Auschwitz in Poland on Jan. 23, 2020. Source: American Jewish Committee via Twitter.

Saudi columnist: A real bid for peace requires acknowledging the tragedy of the Holocaust

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Saudi author and journalist Abdullah Bin Bakheet wrote in the kingdom’s Al-Riyadh daily in January that any true bid for peace with Israel requires transcending politics and acknowledging that the Holocaust was a “tragedy” and an...