Posted on 11/23/2016 7:49:57 PM PST by FreedomUS
While many writers in the Saudi and Gulf media reacted to the election of Donald Trump for U.S. president with mixed emotions, expressing hopes for cooperation with him but also concern because of his hostile statements regarding Muslims,[1] Turki Al-Dakhil, the general manager of Al-Arabiya's news channel, took a much less ambivalent position, stressing the possible benefit of Trump's election for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. In a November 13, 2016 article titled "On Trump-Phobia," he wrote that Trump's statements against African Americans, Latinos and Muslims had been mere propaganda aimed at achieving electoral gains, and that now that the elections were over, Trump would rule according to law. He also stressed that Trump's foreign policy advisor, Walid Phares, had confirmed Trump's desire to strengthen U.S. ties the Gulf in order to combat terrorism and confront the Iranian expansion, and this in contrast to Obama, who flirted with the Iranian axis and rewarded it.
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I still don’t believe that all Jazeera (which is Doha based) will be soft on Trump
Is that his real name? On thanksgiving?
Thanks for making us smile...
Yeah, cause Trump completely forgo and let go of 9/11.
He wont perform a military attack on them, but he can bury them with bankruptcy by making us 100 percent independent regarding oil.
I suspect few will weep, even on the Democrat side, when Obama when the White House door finally hits Obama on the rear end. While there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over Hillary's election loss, Democrat history will see Obama as the proximate cause of the death of the Party.
I suspect few will weep, even on the Democrat side, when the White House door finally hits Obama on the rear end. While there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over Hillary's election loss, Democrat history will see Obama as the proximate cause of the death of the Party.
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