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Crown prince’s interview: Tough questions, straight answers

  • Among the many things for which America’s 1945-1953 President Harry S. Truman is remembered is the plaque on the front of his desk in the Oval Office that read: “The buck stops here.” It meant that whatever any of the hundreds of thousands of Washington bureaucracy employees did, the president ...
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Al-Jubeir stands up to US media ‘soap opera’

  • Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir. (Reuters) Last December, when Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was appointed to a new position as Minister of State, much of the American news media reported that he had been demoted amid the backlash over the killing of Washington Post...
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Angry voices will never bring peace to the Middle East

  • The Arab world listened intently to Barack Obama six months after he was sworn in as US president, when he outlined his “new beginning” in relations with the “Muslim world” in his famous Cairo speech. Obama did not address the “Arab world,” he addressed the “Muslim World” for a reason that ma...
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How MBS went in to bat for the Arab world

  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia last week shattered many of the negative stereotypes about the Arab world that persist in America, and have defined the contentious relationship between the two....
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Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitism (just ask Prince Charles)

  • The tendency of Israel to describe any criticism of its policies as anti-Semitism thwarts the Middle East peace effort and enables extremists to fan the flames of conflict. It also makes it easy for Israelis to denounce anyone who challenges their extremism or violence. ...
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Moderate Arab nations must lead in the Trump era

  • Assertions that US President Donald Trump is unfair to the needs of the Arab world are misleading and contradict facts, much like the claim that he “hates” Muslims. Trump’s efforts to crack down on Islamic extremists who have openly vowed to kill Americans has been widely misinterpreted and wro...
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