This is absolutely true, and is the salient point in this case: Khashoggi’s job was to “discredit MBS and legitimize the terror-supporting Qataris while making pro-jihadist progressives feel good about themselves. I’m not saying his murder was justified. I am saying he doesn’t deserve the tears of anyone who opposes jihadist terror and jihadist regimes, cares about human rights or wants to avoid a major war in the Middle East.”
So why is Biden publishing this report showing that MBS may have been involved in Khashoggi’s murder? Because Khashoggi was Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslim Brotherhood lobby is very strong in the U.S., as all the major Muslim organizations in this country are linked to the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood hates the Saudi regime, as it is a chief obstacle to its dreams of a caliphate in the Middle East. The Saudis also oppose Iran, which Biden’s handlers are so very anxious to appease. Thus Biden’s handlers had two reasons to betray Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, if they’re naive enough to be looking for a governing entity in the Islamic world that is not brutal and repressive, they’re going to be looking for a long time.
“The Khashoggi Passion Play,” by Caroline Glick, February 27, 2021:
The Biden administration’s decision to publish the intelligence report on Jamal Khashoggi’s death in late 2018 was as predictable as it was destructive to U.S. national security and to the security and stability of the Middle East.
It was predictable for two reasons. First, this is Obama’s third term. And in Obama’s first term he played a central role in overthrowing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the anchor of the U.S.’s alliance system in the Sunni Arab world in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological anchor of every Sunni terror group in the world.
Obama’s consistent policy for eight years was to side with the jihadists. Obama’s anti-colonialist worldview bred his anti-Western sensibilities. He and his neo-Marxist advisors viewed the jihadists as the “authentic” voice of the Islamic world. They were favored because they were “revolutionary” and anti-Western. In every conflict that pitted either conservative Sunni leaders, Iranian anti-regime forces, or Israel against jihadists from Hamas to Hezbollah, to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Houthis, to Iran, Obama and his people supported the jihadists. For this reason, Obama admired both Turkish dictator Erdogan and the Qatari ruling family. Like him, they supported jihadists.
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman (MBS) and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ) from the UAE were big problems for Obama, Robert Malley and their ilk. They appeared out of nowhere.
Young and vigorous, they seek to liberalize their conservative societies. They are deeply opposed to Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. They are open to peace and cooperation with Israel. They support Israel in its campaigns against Hamas and Hezbollah. And they are certainly “authentic” Arab Muslims. When the UAE declared the Muslim Brotherhood, and Obama’s key supporters and ideological allies at CAIR terrorist organizations, Obama and his comrades were so angry they could barely put together a coherent sentence.
This brings us to Khashoggi. As Lee Smith reported after he was found dead in the Saudi consulate in Turkey, there were a lot of things about Khashoggi that made him a strange hero for Americans of any stripes. He was a Qatari agent of influence. He was a former Saudi intelligence officer who sided with the Wahabist jihadists in the royal family who supported al Qaeda. He was friends with Osama bin Laden and mourned his death. The al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran and Hamas supporting Qatari regime was essentially writing his columns in the Washington Post.
On its face, Khashoggi’s receipt of a green card made no sense given his open support for al Qaeda. On its face, his gig as a columnist at Jeff Bezos’s paper made no sense given his relationship with Saudi intelligence and with the Qatari ruling family. But they made perfect sense in the context of the efforts made by Obama’s deep state friends, particularly former CIA director John Brennan, who opposed MBS from the outset to empower the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian regime.
When seen in this light, it is clear that Khashoggi, a terror supporting Qatari agent who opposed the modernizing, pro-American, anti-jihadist and pro-Israel Saudi Crown Prince was an important political warfare asset for Obama’s clique. His job was to discredit MBS and legitimize the terror-supporting Qataris while making pro-jihadist progressives feel good about themselves.
I’m not saying his murder was justified. I am saying he doesn’t deserve the tears of anyone who opposes jihadist terror and jihadist regimes, cares about human rights or wants to avoid a major war in the Middle East….
jirtu says
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I am not defending the despicable Saudis, but I found ridiculous the way mainstream media elevated hoodlum Khashoggi to the skies as Mr. Integrity and Martyr.. Am not impressed by journalist Carolyn Glick.
juleonly says
Muslim Bros against Saudi. MB all over Qatar, Turkey, filling up Jordan/Hamas, plus any gang with a similar goal therefore working even with Iran.Islam will start a world war and I do not see how we cannot be involved while they destroy Africa, Libya, Syria, Indonesia. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, France, Germany. Hitlers Germans were always very willing to work with Islam.I hope we are all ready and that Russia fights with us as they did against Germany.
roberta says
”Live by the sword, die by the sword.” They can break out the sawzalls on one another any time they please. I’ll overnight ship fresh batteries to them at my expense.
mortimer says
Why are Bribed-en’s handlers trying to sabotage the US relationship with Saudi Arabia?
They must want wars in the Middle East.
Wellington says
I think, mortimer, Biden’s handlers don’t know what the hell they want unless it opposes Trump himself or Trump’s policies in some way.
The key to understanding the dimwit Caesar, Biden, and his handlers, is to grasp that whatever Trump wanted, they don’t. This is how hollow Biden and his handlers are, of which there are many and right now competing among themselves in petty fashion to be at, a la Disraeli, “the top of the greasy pole,” and all the while the fraudulently elected Biden resides at the most exclusive new nursing home in America—the White House.
Things are out of joint. Boy, are they ever. And again I assert that most of the time mankind is an idiot. All those who ACTUALLY (all caps necessary here) voted for Biden only confirm this verity once again.
Oh yeah, thanks ACTUAL Biden voters. I respect none of you, especially those over 40.
gravenimage says
Great analysis, Wellington.
James Lincoln says
Seconded!
gravenimage says
I am *no* fan of Biden, but the bloody Saudis, with their involvement in 9/11, are *not* our allies.
juleonly says
Against Iran, they have to be.
Infidel says
Ideally, in Yemen, we don’t have a dog in that fight. The side we’re officially against – the Houthis – do have a flag that denounces both us and the Jews, while the side we’re supposedly ‘on’ includes AQAP – Al Qaeda. So I’m fine w/ arming the Saudis, but there needs to be something in place to ensure that AQAP doesn’t end up w/ weapons. Also note that the UAE has its own faction in eastern parts of Yemen
gravenimage says
Jule, I don’t think that the Saudis murdering almost 3000 Americans or their funding Jihad terror and terrorist Mosques and schools makes them our allies. Better to hold all Islamic states at arm’s length.
gravenimage says
Khashoggi’s job was to make ‘pro-jihadist progressives feel good about themselves’
………………
Pretty much. Of course, no one deserves to be dismembered with a bone saw.
One can point out that Saudi Arabia murdering people–including those who are nominally our citizens–is a bad thing without in any way whitewashing the character of the victim. Not that this is what the Biden administration is doing, of course.
There are no good guys here.
Infidel says
While that is true, $500 billion in arms sales was nothing to sneeze at, given that there ain’t too many revenue streams for Uncle Sam these days, even while expenses due to the Chinavirus continue, as well as the list of pet projects of Dems. That’s why President Trump kept on the deal w/ the Saudis: it’s not b’cos he was a fan of Wahabi islam (unlike Bush). It’s just that he didn’t want those deals going to the likes of Russia, China or other powers
All I can see that Biden has achieved here is the US losing a transaction, which in turn would work downstream in slowing economic activity and employment in companies that make defense equipment. Like w/ the Keystone Pipeline, ANWR and fracking, there’s nothing that this administration hates more than American jobs
And of course, I’m sure that Russia, China, Israel or India wouldn’t dream of selling the Saudis alternatives to the weapon systems that they couldn’t buy from us
gravenimage says
Infidel–with all respect–I don’t think we need blood money from the Saudis. Our economy, even in these days of the Coronavirus, is not that weak.
And I don’t think we should *ever* be arming Jihadists. Not a good idea.
juleonly says
Also when things get pushed it will be Saudi, Gulf, Israel, France,NATO to defend against what the set up so they can War on the World. We cannot submit. They will never submit or change away from their Solid Supremacy backed by Allah to rule the earth. Africa looks hopeless!!!!!!
juleonly says
It was not as bad as they make it sound. They killed him first and after dead cut up the body to sneak it out of Turkey.
Fred van de Bunt says
Muslim business. Killing each other and non-Muslims is their greatest hobby. I would not get involved with them, as I stay out of mafia business in general. Leave it to the CIA: the guys that live safely on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. See my society in Western Europe already changing enough with that religion of peace and more and more of those mosques around.
underbed cat says
Saudi Arabia is the origin of sharia law yes? came from the Quran ,etc, so why would MB hate Saudi Arabia is beyond me, it was in a cave in SA , unless they have left as the “organizing principle of the middle east which is suggesting reforms but I don’t trust that since they are presenting a new face…as they modernize but will still be sharia based which directs them to conquest as they allow Iran to be the special group of jihadists, but now SA has new warplanes to use, presenting as only a defense from Iran.or is it….it seems crazy that we just can’t see this…situation and Biden is complicit or clueless. So is Israel alone now? What the heck is going on? I am completely confused and real concerned.
b.a. freeman says
ubc, the MB hates saudi barbaria because the 35000+ royal family members keep and use most of the oil money to please themselves rather than spending it on jihad. all MBS has to do is declare jihad and start murdering kuffar, and the MB will be kissing his a** as the caliph.
the only reason that MBS is “reforming” is because he is vain and wants westerners to like him more, the better to get them to spend *their* money on him rather than forcing him to spend his. right now, saudi barbaria has the best weapons that the US has (a really stupid idea for us to sell our best weapons, BTW), but they aren’t powerful enough to go on an official jihad; therefore, they lie and act all western rather than going all ahkbar on us. the time for the latter will come soon enough.
the bottom line is that if we can get the ummah to fight among themselves at minimum cost to dar al-harb, fewer american citizens will have to fight these monsters. and BTW: *A*L*L* muslims have been trained to be monsters; those who are “moderate” need only to be evangelized by the pious to become jihadis.
as for “old joe,” he is a sad shell of a plagiarist who doesn’t really matter. president-in-thief comma laharris is who matters, and her goal, along with that of the other nazis in her administration, is to destroy the US. they are busily importing muslims (~10% of whom will be pious and will almost certainly make random attacks on their host society) as a proxy army to throw society into chaos. they are busily running up astronomical debts, so that when china begins insisting on payment in renminbi rather than dollars, and the rest of the world makes the renminbi the world’s default currency rather than the dollar, the debt-ridden US market will collapse with hyperinflation. they are busily setting up an unconstitutional nationally-mandated voting system to ensure that all elections are forever more won by nazicrats. they are almost certainly planning to grant amnesty to illegal aliens so that there will be 11 or 12 or 15 million more nazicrat voters. they are “defunding the police” so that a national police force – the SS – can replace all local policing, the better to arrest and “re-educate” deplorables. they are desperately trying to stir up race wars among as many ethnic groups as possible, again to destabilize society so that they can easily seize absolute power. from all appearances, they hate jews, so they ignore the antisemitism of the ummah. they think black people are stupid, and can’t figure out that leftists hate them; the CDC estimates that 47.2% of black pregnancies end in abortion.
in other words, the left has a multitude of irons in the fire, and unfortunately, *A*L*L* of them seem to be working *very* well. if things continue along current lines for much longer, there will be a civil war, a financial collapse, a race war, and societal collapse. the US is likely to split up into multitudes of little enclaves, all fighting one another. a war with that many participants is not likely to end with the nation intact. worse yet, the nazicrats will seize power in many of them, but that probably won’t matter much once iran starts nuking US cities. in fact, i would be surprised were the chinese not to seize control of most of the west coast, since those areas are almost all leftist.
i have my shelf-stable food and water (which i am consuming FIFO), along with weapons and ammunition, but i strongly suspect that a leftist minion or a pious muslim will end my life prematurely with one or more bullets in the back of my head. nevertheless, i fully intend to fight to the bitter end to end these horridly evil systems. i am a born-again christian, and am not worried too much about dying, but it is unfair to bequeath leftist or muslim tyranny to my children and grandchildren, or to those of my friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
that’s what i see as “going on,” anyway.
gravenimage says
underbed cat, The MB hates the Saudis largely because they have control over the “kingdom of the two holy places”. This is mostly just a power struggle, rather than ideological.