Mohammed bin Salman

column
Ziad Abdelnour14.11.2018
The Middle East needs strategic vision, not moral outrage
Let’s be clear. All Arab rulers are prepared, if necessary, to murder those who stand in the way of their political ambitions. So let’s move on.
Ziad Abdelnour (Twitter)
news
Saudi killing of Khashoggi is ‘business as usual’ in the Arab world
Ariel Ben Solomon08.11.2018
The only threat to stability remains from outside actors—particularly, arch-rival Iran, and from some Western governments and businesses that have cooled on the kingdom of late. But this will surely blow over because of the Saudis’ vast economic clout.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaks with former U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a meeting at the Pentagon, June 16, 2016. Credit: Department of Defense Photo by Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz
brief
US, Israel express concern over whether bin Salman can deliver on Mideast peace
05.11.2018
“What happened in the Istanbul consulate was horrendous,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Yet at the same time, it is very important for the stability of the world, of the region and of the world, that Saudi Arabia remain stable.”
U.S. President Donald Trump with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during their meeting on March 14, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
column
Yigal CarmonMEMRI05.11.2018
Khashoggi’s murder and the battle for supremacy in the Sunni world
Now that Saudi Arabia has acknowledged its responsibility for the Khashoggi murder, it is time to clarify Turkey's role and responsibility in the affair, from the perspective of the battle between Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Saudi Arabia's Muhammad Bin Salman for the leadership of the Sunni world.
Yigal Carmon (Credit: MEMRI)
column
Israel Hayom
Eyal Zisser05.11.2018
Saudi Arabia is still a partner
As of now, Israel and the United States don't have another partner in the region, not one as reliable and stable as Saudi Arabia.
column
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies:
Besa Center
James Dorsey04.11.2018
Muhammad bin Salman: For better or for worse?
Embattled Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman could prove to be not only a cat with nine lives, but a cat that makes surprising jumps.
Dr. James M. Dorsey, a non-resident Senior Associate at the BESA Center
column
Israel Hayom
David M. Weinberg26.10.2018
Don’t throw MBS under the bus!
For all its legendary wealth, Saudi Arabia is, after all, a failed state with tribal divisions, byzantine oligarchic intrafamily enmities, zealously rigid religious leaders and a barbaric “justice” system.
David M. Weinberg (Twitter)
column
Israel Hayom
Yaakov Amidror26.10.2018
Saudi Arabia’s sticky situation
The Saudis loath the Turkish dictator, who dreams of resurrecting the Ottoman Empire—and the feeling is mutual.
Yaakov Amidror (Credit: JISS)
column
Israel Hayom
Clifford D. May24.10.2018
Appropriate consequences for barbarism
The U.S. president and his advisers are likely to impose sanctions, probably using the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which will allow them to target specific individual Saudis clearly implicated in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Wikipedia
column
Israel Hayom
Reuven Berko24.10.2018
The little prince
There is an Arab saying that “the apology is sometimes worse than the crime.”
(Israeli American Council)
column
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies:
Besa Center
James Dorsey23.10.2018
Khashoggi shakes up the Middle East at a horrible cost
The killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul threatens to severely disrupt the U.S.-Saudi alliance that holds together many of the Middle East’s fault lines.
Dr. James M. Dorsey, a non-resident Senior Associate at the BESA Center
brief
Mnuchin discusses Iran oil sanctions with Saudi prince
23.10.2018
The two “stressed the importance of the Saudi-U.S. strategic partnership and the future role of this partnership in accordance with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030,” according to the Saudi Press Agency.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. Credit: Ricky Harris/The White House.
column
Zvi Mazel21.10.2018
Unlike Iran, Saudi Arabia can’t get away with murder
The West will have no choice but to do “something,” however limited in scope, until it can move on.
Zvi Mazel
column
Endowment for Middle East Truth
Sarah N. Stern16.10.2018
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend
Saudi Arabia is no bastion of Jeffersonian democracy. Nor is Turkey, Syria, Qatar, Iran or any Islamist nation.
column
Israel Hayom
Eyal Zisser15.10.2018
The princely bubble has burst
Political experience and shrewdness are acquired ‎with agony, and the crown prince has proven reckless ‎more than once.‎
Load more