Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Saudi Arabia And The Art Of The Deal

Amir Tsarfati

 When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came to the White House Tuesday, Trump returned the honor. It was a royal welcoming unlike any that I’ve ever witnessed with military marches, canon fire, and a fighter plane fly-over. Why would the president of the most powerful nation on earth roll out the red carpet to this extent to a crown prince?

Washington’s Blind Spot: Ideology, Not Economics, Drives the Middle East

Prophecy News Watch

For all the good the Trump administration has done in the Middle East – restoring “Peace through Strength”-style deterrence, rebuilding alliances, and rejecting the Obama-era tilt toward Iran – it is now making a number of mistakes that stem from two fundamental errors that threaten to undermine much of that progress. Both stem from Western misunderstandings of the region’s political and religious realities.