Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket”
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/ftc-facebook-chuck-schumer
#MBSsile_heureux
Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket”
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/ftc-facebook-chuck-schumer
Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-arab-spring.html
Morceaux choisis pour un texte dans lequel Thomas Friedman se dépasse, c’est dire !
Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last. The crown prince has big plans to bring back a level of tolerance to his society.
I never thought I’d live long enough to write this sentence: The most significant reform process underway anywhere in the Middle East today is in Saudi Arabia. Yes, you read that right. Though I came here at the start of Saudi winter, I found the country going through its own Arab Spring, Saudi style.
Unlike the other Arab Springs — all of which emerged bottom up and failed miserably, except in Tunisia — this one is led from the top down by the country’s 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and, if it succeeds, it will not only change the character of Saudi Arabia but the tone and tenor of Islam across the globe. Only a fool would predict its success — but only a fool would not root for it.
(...) Iran’s “supreme leader is the new Hitler of the Middle East,” said M.B.S. “But we learned from Europe that appeasement doesn’t work. We don’t want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East.” What matters most, though, is what Saudi Arabia does at home to build its strength and economy.
(...) Now they have a young leader who is driving religious and economic reform, who talks the language of high tech, and whose biggest sin may be that he wants to go too fast. Most ministers are now in their 40s — and not 60s. And with the suffocating hand of a puritanical Islam being lifted, it’s giving them a chance to think afresh about their country and their identity as Saud
Pour Mohammad Ben Salmane, Khamenei est un « nouvel Hitler » - L’Orient-Le Jour
▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1085813/pour-mohammad-ben-salmane-khamenei-est-un-nouvel-hitler.html
« Saad Hariri (...) ne va plus continuer à accorder une couverture politique à un gouvernement contrôlé essentiellement par le Hezbollah, qui à son tour est contrôlé par l’Iran », a confié au New York Times le prince héritier saoudien.
Frédéric Pichon on Twitter : « Pour le NYT, la modernisation de l’#Arabie_Saoudite et le réformisme de ses dirigeants est un #marronnier qui date du siècle dernier. Voir cet excellent thread ▻https://t.co/4Beyhe3T6P ▻https://t.co/Hl0jM8zcMJ »
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/Fred_Pichon/status/934335917204090881
Doug Henwood on Twitter: “Who will Tom Friedman use as a source when cab drivers are replaced by self-driving cars?”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/DougHenwood/status/934107359307354114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nak
70 ans d’histoire d’amour entre le New York Times et la saudie :
الميادين | آخرها عن « الربيع السعودي ».. السعودية في صفحات « نيويورك تايمز » خلال 70 عاماً
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Saudi Arabia’s prince is doing #damage_control
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/saudi-arabias-prince-is-doing-damage-control/2017/11/16/e3710ba4-cb14-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html
The Hariri episode appears to have convinced Washington and Riyadh that their interests are better served by stability in Lebanon than instability, even though that approach requires some cooperation with Hezbollah, the dominant political faction. A Saudi official told me that the kingdom plans to work with the United States to support Lebanese institutions, such as the army, that can gradually reduce the power of Hezbollah and its patron, Iran. MBS seems to have recognized that combating Hezbollah is a long game, not a short one.