Posted on 11/18/2016 8:34:54 AM PST by zlando
The Saudi royals are petitioning the Israelis to save them. As the president of the Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee, Salman al-Ansari, says in this Hill blog post, the Saudis are imploring Israel to resuscitate their collapsing economy and defend them against their Iranian Muslim brethren. This should not have come as a surprise, given the Saudi ruling familys obsession with its security and mistrust of Arab and Muslim regimes, especially the Persians, with whom they share strategic borders and reciprocal religious hatred. Having risen to and maintained their power by ruthless force, the Saudi rulers have mastered the art of ensuring their survival by all the means they possess, can invent or can buy. For instance, after concluding that there would be long-term adverse reactions, especially by Americans and their Western allies, to the terrorist attack on the U.S. by mostly Saudi nationals on Sept. 11, 2001, the Saudi rulers resorted to what they know well: creating a diversionary stratagem. After the 9/11 attack, global media embarked upon an unprecedented exposure of the Saudis repressive policies, toxic doctrine and support for Muslim extremists and terrorists worldwide. To counter this, the Saudi rulers tried to refocus global attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Twitter: @zlando |
All the money they poured into the Bushes and Clintons, have them ‘begging’ for help...well they did this to themselves and NO they shouldn't be helped...they are, the last I heard was still funding a tribe that was cutting heads off of Christians...
I do not believe BiBi would even listen to them especially after the hand in glove with the Palestine's...
This attitude is the reason I've always detested the Saudis, together with the fact that their money, directly or indirectly, accounts for most of the world's funding for radical Islam and jihad.
I think that the Saudis realize that Trump won't lick their boots as Obama and the Bushes did, and with America independent of Saudi oil, they're looking for any friends they can find. Who will they go running to next? Maybe China would prefer them to Iran, but I doubt that their arrogant, entitled attitude would go over well with Xi.
ek_hornbeck wrote:"I think that the Saudis realize that Trump won't lick their boots as Obama and the Bushes did, and with America independent of Saudi oil, they're looking for any friends they can find...."
Perhaps Trump will get ahead of this. The Saudi's nationalized their oil enterprises...we should do no less.
I don’t mind how they dress - in their own homes. We have a different culture, and if they don’t honor it, they should not be allowed in.
I think DJT realizes we as a country always change sides in the ME. It started with the Russians in Afganistan in the 80s and continues with us for Saddam against Iran, then against, then for and against now rebels in Syria. Hey a shout out to John McCain, “Go F yourself.”
We are moving out of the ME except for our 1 friend Israel.
As far as the Shia Sunni thing in SA, Irag, Iran and Turkey. I say have at it but we aint playing. Does anyone have any pop corn?
I understand your concern, but I'm not sure that having a US version of Pemex is the only or best solution to the problem. Perhaps it would be simpler to have a law preventing US oil companies (and other key industries that are vital to our security) from having majority shareholders who are not US citizens or US-based corporations.
That announcement of 20 billion barrels in the Permian basin in West Texas is so timely as to make one think it may devine providence.
God bless Texas!
I agree, I live in Texas and thought all along this was an easy way for Saudis to bankrupt our frackers and buy for pennies
Not really, they found a big find in Colorado recently. Trust me America still has an abundance of energy.
Listen, I know this sounds crazy but let’s suppose DJT really wanted to lessen our debt and especially our responsibility to pay it back to foreign countries. Let’s sell off all federal lands to American citizens only and foreign lenders can’t reposes them from us citizens.
It can be the NEW HOMESTEAD ACT where only Americans (probably republicans in blue states can but land out west and move).
If the gov auctioned all this land out here, I mean all there land out here, people would move like it was the gold rush
lol, first thing I thought of.
But don’t they have to recognize Israel’s right to exist first?
It’s ALL about the petro-dollar.
It’s ALWAYS about the petro-dollar.
If the Sauds 86 the petro-dollar, the solid body waste will hit the fan in the US.
Ummm that would be a no
------- As you wish
Yeah, we concluded the same thing. Little known to us, however, Jorge Busho was the lap dog of the saudis and preferred them over us. Bush was about as bad as O'bummer.
Let them burn. No friends of ours.
For starters, let the Saudis pay the US for the military protection they have enjoyed all these years (as Trump has suggested)
After that, present Kuwait with a similar bill. Charge them for expenses of their liberation from Iraqi occupation.
The world must be weaned off Saudi oil and become addicted to American oil and LNG. That way, we can pay our national debt. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA.
To Israe: Resist the pleas, please.
And after they have removed those insidious mosques, they must also offer sanctuary to all muzzies so that we don’t have to harbor these barbarians.
And what will happen to ARAMCO?
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