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Why the CIA doesn't spy on

artappraiser — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:16:41 +0000

Why the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE https://t.co/clBYP3UCvf pic.twitter.com/kCWhUwHd5a
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Pretty pathetic - war against

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 08:52:29 +0000

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Pretty pathetic - war against terror vs personal grudge match?

Grow the fuck up, MBS, and find a soul while you're at it.

MBS hits back at Biden after

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:48:21 +0000

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MBS hits back at Biden after the President confronts Saudi prince about Khashoggi

By Phil Mattingly, Allie Malloy, Tamara Qiblawi and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, Updated 1:14 PM EDT, Sat July 16, 2022

[.....] In response to Biden bringing up Khashoggi, MBS cited the sexual and physical abuse of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison by US military personnel and the May killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank as incidents that reflected poorly on the US, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister, told reporters on Saturday.

“The Crown Prince responded to President Biden’s remarks on … Khashoggi after quite clearly – that this crime, while very unfortunate and abhorrent, is something that the kingdom took very seriously (and) acted upon in a way commiserate with its position as a responsible country,” bin Farhan said. “These are issues, mistakes that happen in any country, including the US. The Crown Prince pointed out that the US has made its own mistakes and has taken the necessary action to hold those responsible accountable and address these mistakes just as the kingdom has.”

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir echoed the sentiment in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer shortly after the end of the meeting, which Jubeir was part of.

“We investigated, punished and ensure that this doesn’t happen again,” Jubeir said when asked about the Khashoggi murder. “This is what countries do. This is what the US did when the mistake of Abu Ghraib was committed.” [....]

[....] “We are not going to

artappraiser — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:37:44 +0000

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[....] “We are not going to be announcing a normalization with Saudi Arabia on this trip,” Thomas R. Nides, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said in a recent podcast hosted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. But this will be the beginning of a process that will “show the importance of regional security,” he added.

Historically, Saudi officials have said that they will avoid a formal relationship with Israel until the creation of a Palestinian state. But leading Saudis have become increasingly critical of the Palestinian leadership, and two Saudi commentators expressed support for normalization with Israel in recent days.

The Israeli news media has also reported on back-channel negotiations to increase the number of Israeli planes allowed to fly over the Saudi mainland, and to secure Israel’s blessing to change the role of international peacekeepers on two strategic small islands near Israel’s southern coast that Egypt handed over to Saudi Arabia in 2017.

An Israeli minister, Esawi Frej, also said on Thursday that he had asked Saudi Arabia to allow direct flights from Israel to facilitate pilgrimages to Mecca by members of Israel’s Muslim minority.

“There is new closeness between Israel and the Gulf,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington. “The question is: Can the United States try to take all these different bricks and build something new with them?”

Mr. Biden’s visit will also give the United States a chance to bridge its differences with the Israeli government over how to contain Iran’s nuclear program [....]

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Biden Will Find a Changed Middle East on His Coming Visit

On his first trip to the region since taking office, President Biden will begin in Israel, which has been building relations with Arab nations. He will also make a stop in Saudi Arabia.

By Patrick Kingsley in Jerusalem for NYTimes.com, July 10, 2022 Updated 11:46 a.m. ET