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Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic: Saudi Crown Prince: Iran's Supreme Leader 'Makes Hitler Look Good'
In a wide-ranging conversation, Prince Mohammed bin Salman also recognized the Jewish peoples’ right to “their own land.”
This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies. Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, as well as Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and the entire clerical and military leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a bonus, there are members of his own family, the sprawling, sclerotic, self-dealing House of Saud, who would like to see him gone—or at the very least, warehoused at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, where the 32-year-old prince recently imprisoned many of his enemies and cousins during an anti-corruption sweep of the kingdom.
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WNU editor: This entire interview is a must read. But the remark that caught my attention was this one ....
.... “I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land.”
No Arab leader has ever voiced such a remark. And if he lives long enough .... Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will probably be shaping the Middle East in a manner that no one thought was possible only a decade ago.
4 comments:
Better to support Israel (as Saudis now doing) than have Israel and serious rival Iran as enemies...now to focus on Iran and get help from former enemies, Israel
Pretty bold, this guy. I'll bet the old dinosaurs are pulling their required beards out.
These changes seem quite historical to me. I have a feeling the younger generations are not as opposed as perhaps the older crowd.
Roger
A bigger UAE makes sense.
Hahahahaha , did you know what happened to the last guy who tried peace with israel (assassinated by his own f***ing army during a millitary parade )
And the last king who tried to reform SA ( was assassinated in his office by one of his gards )
Yeah good luck MBS
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