Tag: Saudi Arabia
Senate votes to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan
In three votes on Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed 22 resolutions to prevent arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan without congressional approval.
The tally of the first two votes was...
Saudi writers: Israel ‘destined to disappear; accepting it is treason against ourselves’
In the past two years, Saudi media have published no few expressions of support for Israel, and for normalizing relations with it. The Iranian threat, and its tangible manifestations in Yemen, Syria and Iraq,...
Coming to grips with the truth about Qatar
This week the national press has continued to keep the heat on Saudi Arabia as more details about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have made it clear that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
Will Saudi Arabia establish full diplomatic ties with Israel?
What do you do when you are condemned for allegedly ordering the murder of a journalist and your country is under fire for leading a war in Yemen? You try to turn the world’s...
FIDE cancels chess contest in Riyadh after legal action
The international chess governing body—the Fédération lnternationale des Échecs (FIDE)—has agreed to strip Saudi Arabia from the right to host a forthcoming chess tournament after a lawyers’ letter was sent by two Israeli nationals.
Saudi Arabia was due to host...
State Department continues to see Saudis as player in Mideast peace process
Despite the criticism that the Trump administration has gotten over its reaction to last month’s killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the State Department stood by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s response.
“It’s a mean, nasty world...
Israelis barred from Saudi chess tournament demand action from world chess body
Two Israeli nationals are requesting that the international chess governing body—the Fédération lnternationale des Échecs (FIDE)—guarantee nondiscrimination after they were prevented from taking part in a chess tournament in Saudi Arabia last year because...
US, Israel express concern over whether bin Salman can deliver on Mideast peace
After a backlash over the alleged Saudi killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the United States and Saudi Arabia have reportedly expressed concern regarding whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can help deliver stability...
![By Felton Davis (065 Procession) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/800px-065_Procession_39025167311-324x235.jpg "Saudi role in Yemen more brutal than Khashoggi murder")
Saudi role in Yemen more brutal than Khashoggi murder
The cold-blooded killing of the journalist Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales compared to the brutality and gross human rights violations Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen. The Saudis are deliberately preventing food and medicine from...
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Khashoggi shakes up the Middle East at a horrible cost
The death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the premises of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul threatens to upend the fundaments of fault lines across the Middle East. In fact, his killing threatens to...