By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The Saudi journalist murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey was no lover of Israel.
Jamal Khashoggi often wrote disapprovingly about Saudi's relationship with Israel.
He wrote that public diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel will hurt the standing of Saudi Arabia in the rest of the Muslim world. He wrote that it was irresponsible and myopic and shortsighted of Saudi leadership to not to see that.
This puts Israel into a difficult, almost a near impossible, situation.
On the one hand, Israel needs the Saudis to challenge Iran.
On the other hand, Israel cannot be seen as supporting Iran and ignorant of the culture of torture that still goes on Iran.
Saudi Arabia is not as evolved as Western countries forced themselves to believe they were.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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