Easy to understand where the columnist’s rape comes from – look at who he writes for.
You have Saudi Arabia on one side. You have a murdered journalist on the other. Write criticising MBS, and our columnist will slowly but surely watch his future turning into a desert.
Its easy to see what the writer gains from asking for impartiality. Impartiality when you are dealing with a dictatorial regime on one side only benefits the regime. Let Saudi Arabia turn into a liberal democracy and offer all liberal freedoms, and then we shall talk about using liberal ideas such as bias and objectivity.
Or, at least, let MBS give a press conferences like Trump does – and let the media pose questions to him directly.
You can’t ask for normal rules when you are dealing with kingdoms and crown princes. but its very nature. The only beneficiary of that would be the kingdom that has been accused of a crime.
One does not understand where the columnist’s rage is coming from. The photograph of Jamal Khashoggi’s son paying tribute at the royal court, forced to shake hands with his father’s assassin, as a prelude to being permitted to leave the country with other members of the family, was heartbreaking. Who else in Saudi Arabia could provide the official resources and the sanction for such a grotesque act to be performed within the confines of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Lots of countries, Israel prominent among them, bump off inconvenient people abroad. However, the grisly manner in which this act was carried out, complete with a bone saw to dismember the remains, some accounts suggesting the body parts were dissolved in acid, make for grim reading. The CIA and Turkish intelligence know exactly what happened. Whatever someone’s motives for sharing the truth, the act should be applauded. MbS has caused havoc in Yemen, made a mess of all that he has touched. A peaceful change in the Saudi order of royal succession would be a most desirable outcome of this tragedy.
Easy to understand where the columnist’s rape comes from – look at who he writes for.
You have Saudi Arabia on one side. You have a murdered journalist on the other. Write criticising MBS, and our columnist will slowly but surely watch his future turning into a desert.
Its easy to see what the writer gains from asking for impartiality. Impartiality when you are dealing with a dictatorial regime on one side only benefits the regime. Let Saudi Arabia turn into a liberal democracy and offer all liberal freedoms, and then we shall talk about using liberal ideas such as bias and objectivity.
Or, at least, let MBS give a press conferences like Trump does – and let the media pose questions to him directly.
You can’t ask for normal rules when you are dealing with kingdoms and crown princes. but its very nature. The only beneficiary of that would be the kingdom that has been accused of a crime.
One does not understand where the columnist’s rage is coming from. The photograph of Jamal Khashoggi’s son paying tribute at the royal court, forced to shake hands with his father’s assassin, as a prelude to being permitted to leave the country with other members of the family, was heartbreaking. Who else in Saudi Arabia could provide the official resources and the sanction for such a grotesque act to be performed within the confines of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Lots of countries, Israel prominent among them, bump off inconvenient people abroad. However, the grisly manner in which this act was carried out, complete with a bone saw to dismember the remains, some accounts suggesting the body parts were dissolved in acid, make for grim reading. The CIA and Turkish intelligence know exactly what happened. Whatever someone’s motives for sharing the truth, the act should be applauded. MbS has caused havoc in Yemen, made a mess of all that he has touched. A peaceful change in the Saudi order of royal succession would be a most desirable outcome of this tragedy.