© Jonathan ErnstFILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump, White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
US President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia has been helping the US with Israel, with which the Kingdom has no official diplomatic relations. It marks the first time Trump has publicly recognized the sneaky alliance.
Speaking in the White House, Trump stood up in defense of Riyadh as it is facing mounting international pressure over the killing of
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul on October 2. As more gruesome details of the murder, allegedly perpetrated by a Saudi hit squad, emerge, the White House is increasingly bombarded by calls to punish Riyadh and cancel multi-billion dollar arms deals with the Saudi government.
While the US President has cast doubt on the official version of the events, calling it the
"worst cover-up ever," he pointed to the virtues of the Saudi government,
"a very good ally of ours."Among other things, Riyadh has
"been helping us a lot with respect to Israel. They've been funding a lot of things," Trump said without elaborating.
Comment: The author's right and he's wrong. America is on the 'wrong' side, but the 'right' side isn't an 'Islamic-Democratic Arab Spring' across the region, which wold be mere window-dressing, but instead supporting the Axis of Resistance: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen...
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