The US doesn’t really care about journalists, they killed them in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their weapons have killed 215 journalists so far in Palestine. It was always about extracting tributes and concessions from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia just doesn’t want to be turned into another Iraq or Libya or Syria or Palestine or any country that got on the bad side of the US. The US is known to hold a grudge, just look at the 67-year embargo on Cuba.

Tusk

By Saudis do you mean all 25 million citizens or just the government?

Mission accomplished

Toyota is Japanese and Alqaeda had more attacks against Saudi Arabia than against the US.

It is not grammar/whatever. They are two very different countries, it is like confusing Britain and France because you think all Europeans are the same.

In Saudi Arabia you can’t be legally married before 18, so that’s effectively the age of consent.

Saudi Arabia wouldn’t dare do anything to Trump when it hosts and is surrounded with US bases and troops.

Qatar is not Saudi Arabia, in fact there was a huge feud and blockade between the two not too long ago. Do you think all Arabs are the same? They even speak different dialects with different vocabulary and phonology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar–Saudi_Arabia_diplomatic_conflict

Shame Trump has a poor taste in food. Local cuisine is infinitely tastier and healthier. Okay maybe not much healthier.

Is he sewage-skeptic too?

Hamas aren’t considered a terrorist group by everybody. Only by a handful of states. The UN and many others see their actions as legitimate self defense against a brutal illegal occupation since 1967.

You should learn some more, because you are clearly misled on both the Palestinians’ right to armed struggle, and on Hamas and what it stands for.

Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle

Palestinian right of armed resistance

UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

Hamas presents new charter accepting a Palestine based on 1967 borders

Hamas accepts 1967 borders and their charter states they aren’t in a war with Jews. Likud refuses any Palestinian statehood anywhere between the river and the sea. Yet the leader of one is demonized and the other’s is welcomed with applause by the US congress.

Quotes from the charter follows:

6. The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation

12. The Palestinian cause in its essence is a cause of an occupied land and a displaced people. The right of the Palestinian refugees and the displaced to return to their homes from which they were banished or were banned from returning to – whether in the lands occupied in 1948 or in 1967 (that is the whole of Palestine), is a natural right, both individual and collective. This right is confirmed by all divine laws as well as by the basic principles of human rights and international law. It is an inalienable right and cannot be dispensed with by any party, whether Palestinian, Arab or international.

16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.

Full charter: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-2017-document-of-general-principles-and-policies

When did he platform the Israeli military?

What’s wrong with supporting Hamas?

Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle

Palestinian right of armed resistance

UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

Then again if this how many US liberals feel, I am glad I left the US.

They are going after white-passing US citizens now?

People are downvoting this but it’s the truth.

A very good and valid reason to object. A lot of Arab governments and heads of state have no business existing, let alone being in power.

More like tributes so they aren’t turned into another Iraq or Syria or Yemen or Sudan or Libya

I have no objections. That’s what it is already called in Arabic.

Fun fact in Turkish it is called Gulf of Basra, after the city in Iraq.

Another fun fact: in the grand scheme of things, Persians and Iranians are relative late comers to the region during the Babylonian Era; and the Gulf already had previous Sumerian, Elamite and Akkadian names. Late is in relation to the history of the region but when compared with the history of other regions 3000 years ago is a long time ago. Turks are even later-comers only 1000 years ago. I say this because they can’t claim that they named it first.

Final fun fact: Persians don’t live on the north coast of the Gulf, not in significant numbers and not historically, only Arabs live on both coasts even on the Iranian side.

PS: I am sympathetic to Iran in their struggle against imperialism and Zionism, and believe they have a right to develop whatever means to defend themselves and deter aggression. This naming dispute though, is something else for me regardless of Trump’s intentions.

During the brief ceasefire that started in January of this year, Yemen halted all attacks on Israel and paused its blockade on Israeli ships and those heading to Israel. Yemen has proven that if the genocide and blockade stops they will stop.