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Items by Hassan Al-Brari
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The price of silence will be high for Bin Salman
There is no doubt that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is fighting for his political life. Once the international community accepted that the evidence pointed to his personal involvement in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom began to look for...
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The bankrupt Saudi discourse
After the series of defeats suffered by Saudi diplomacy, some had hoped that Riyadh would seize the opportunity at the UN General Assembly to stand in favour of the Kingdom’s genuine national interests and turn a new page with the rest of the Arabs in order to avoid further...
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Normalising relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes every opportunity possible to boast that his country has reached an advanced stage of normalised relations with major Arab countries, in a clear reference to Saudi Arabia. Sources close to Netanyahu note that observers have only seen the tip of the iceberg, indicating...
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Targeting refugees in Jordan
According to a report in America’s Foreign Policy magazine, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s advisor and son-in-law, “Pressed Jordan to strip its more than 2 million registered Palestinians of their refugee status so that UNRWA would no longer need to operate there.” The only way to understand Kushner’s inflammatory step...
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The arms race
It is not yet clear whether or not Moscow will supply the Syrian regime with an S300 missile system in response to the tripartite attack by the United States, the United Kingdom and France against specific targets in Syria. Some statements and leaks from Russia indicate that Moscow was...
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Rapprochement with Israel carries a heavy price tag for Riyadh
Riyadh is convinced that rapprochement with Israel is the cornerstone of its desperate attempts to achieve any victory for Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman before he officially takes the throne. Many Arabs did not believe the Israeli Prime Minister’s statements over recent years that there was a great understanding...