Tel-Chai Nation

Najat al-Saied wrote about Joe Biden's doing more harm than good to any positive connection Israel could have with Saudi Arabia:

In rewarding political Islamist ideologues, the enemies of peace and stability in the region, as well as simultaneously punishing America's allies, the Biden administration's recent decisions have sent dangerous signals.

For instance, on what basis did the Biden administration scramble to resume negotiations with Iran? What did the Iranian regime do for it to be rewarded with this kind of appeasement, while at the same time Biden's administration freezes weapons sales to America's allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, even though the latter has launched a historic peace process, the first "warm" peace with Israel in the region?

The Biden administration has also removed from the terrorism list Yemen's Houthi rebels, which is affiliated with Iran, while it keeps attacking Saudi Arabia over the Jamal Khashoggi case.

No one can deny that Khashoggi's assassination, which Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself described as a "heinous crime" and a "mistake" on the part of Saudi government agents, is indefensible. But the danger here is that this anti-Jewish political Islamist, a strong advocate of the Muslim Brotherhood who mourned the death of Osama bin Laden, is portrayed as some kind of virtuous idol and a proponent of democracy and freedom.

Khashoggi was never a genuine advocate of these or he would have called for this a long time ago, and he would never have held a government position, such as media advisor to Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the former director of Saudi intelligence. He only called for democracy and freedom after MBS came to power because he was against his reforms, chiefly the crown prince's battle with the Muslim Brotherhood and radical supporters of the religious institute, because he knew such reforms would put an end to political Islam not only in Saudi Arabia but across the region.

Khashoggi also attacked Saudi intellectuals who called for the normalization of relations with Israel. He also threatened the author of this article for pursuing peace with Israel, saying, "I wish you and people like you would shut up because you are the cause of the Arabs' and Palestinians' hatred of our country."

Well that was certainly disgusting Khashoggi would make such an attack. Now, because of the alarming way Biden's staff approach these middle eastern matters, relations between Israel and Arabia could be ruined when maintaining relations could actually be very helpful. Very sad.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, House of Saud, iran, islam, Israel, jihad, Moonbattery, political corruption, terrorism, UAE, United States, yemen