{"id":214187,"date":"2016-01-06T04:26:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T04:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=214187"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:04:58","slug":"the-sauds-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-sauds-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sauds’ Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America\u2019s government still supports them and condemns the countries that the Sauds hate: those are the Shia-led nations of Iran and of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

All jihadist terrorism is Sunni, none of it is Shia; but the U.S. government is anti-Shia, not anti-Sunni. There were no Shia involved in the 9\/11 attacks, nor in the Mumbai attacks, nor in the Charlie Hebdo or other Paris attacks, nor in the London bombing, nor in any of the others. All of the terrorism that wracks Afghanistan and Pakistan is Sunni. ISIS is Sunni; Al Qaeda is Sunni. As Sunni fundamentalists, they all hate especially Shia<\/i> <\/span>as \u201cinfidels,\u201d because Shia claim<\/i> <\/span>to be Muslims, and Sunni fundamentalists take that very claim to be not only a lie but a personal insult to themselves as \u2018real\u2019 Muslims, because they \u2018know\u2019 what a \u2018real\u2019 Muslim is \u2013 they\u2019ve been taught<\/i> <\/span>it, and it\u2019s distinctively Sunni. <\/span><\/p>\n

But the U.S. government keeps harping instead against the Shia group Hezbollah, which is at war against Israel because of the barbaric way that Israel treats its Palestinians. But that\u2019s not terrorism in anything like the same sense \u2013 it\u2019s not jihadist, it\u2019s not out for global conquest; and it certainly doesn\u2019t threaten us<\/i>. And it\u2019s really none of America\u2019s business to get involved with, anyway \u2013 it is Israel\u2019s problem, entirely: and Israel flagrantly violates even the Camp David accords that the U.S. government itself brokered; and, so, for America to be involved on either side there is plain wrong \u2013 but the U.S. government donates, from its own taxpayers, over $3 billion every year to Israel, so that it\u2019ll buy weapons from U.S. arms-makers. This give-away to the U.S. weapons-industry<\/i> <\/span>is supposed to be \u2018humanitarian,\u2019 and \u2018foreign aid.\u2019 It actually aids more in killing than it does in protecting; the sheer hypocrisy of that subsidy to U.S. weapons-makers is obscene. But anyway: Hezbollah is a sideshow in a discussion of terrorism, and it\u2019s not at all<\/i> <\/span>jihadist. By contrast, the Saud family fund jihad<\/span><\/a>. And yet the U.S. government considers them allies, if not its top allies. Something\u2019s very wrong here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sauds have impunity, at least from the U.S. government. Instead of the U.S. government being against the tyrants who rule Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>, the U.S. government overthrows the leaders (tyrants or otherwise) who are allied with Russia<\/i> \u2013 which just happens to be another country that the Sauds are at war against. Thus, the U.S. overthrew Russia-friendly Saddam Hussein in 2003, and Russia-friendly Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and Russia-friendly Viktor Yanukovych in 2014<\/span><\/a>, and our government is allied with the Sauds and other top funders of terrorism, global jihadist Islam \u2013 all of whom are Sunnis \u2013 to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, because he not only is Shiite but allies with Russia, and because the Sauds hate Russia almost as much as the leadership of America do (so the U.S. is allied in this with the Sunni dictatorships: not only the Saud royals but the Qatar royals, and the Kuwait royals, and the UAE royals<\/span><\/a>, and all of the Arabic-oil royal families are led by the Saudi King, the world\u2019s wealthiest person<\/span><\/a>, and the organizer of a new Saudi-run Sunni version of America\u2019s NATO alliance against Russia<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

The people who control America are lots more anti-Russian than they are anti-terrorist<\/a><\/span> \u2013 and any old excuse will serve America\u2019s leaders to \u2018justify\u2019 that priority, to the public whom they treat as their suckers, not as the people in a democracy, who are supposed to own<\/i> this government (\u201cWe, the People \u2026\u201d), and from whom it has been stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, something\u2019s fishy here. It\u2019s the U.S. government, obviously, and it emits the stench of rotten fish. The U.S. government\u2019s ulterior motives are constantly reeking. It\u2019s the stench of our government\u2019s constant lying-to-the-public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the reality about our Saudi \u2018friends\u2019:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since 1744, when the gang-leader Muhammad Ibn Saud and the fanatically anti-Shiite Sunni preacher Muhammad Ibn Wahhab swore their mutual oath to one-another, the Sauds have hated Shia and been set upon defeating them. That oath started what we today know as Saudi Arabia: a union of church-and-state (Saudi government with Wahhabist clerics validating that family\u2019s authority to rule) that seeks first to exterminate all Shia Muslims, and then to organize all Muslims together into global conquest, to bring every nation under strict Sunni rule. (And anyone who resists will be\u00a0beheaded and then crucified<\/span><\/a>.) Wahhab hated Shia for their trying to soften the original Islam<\/span><\/a>. (Wahhabism is called \u201cSalafism\u201d when it\u2019s being practiced outside the Muslim Holy Land of Saudi Arabia, but its principles are the same under either name. ISIS is also the same as Saudi, except that it demands the global Islamic leader to be a descendant of the Prophet, which the Sauds are not. In this regard, ISIS poses a real threat to the Sauds. ISIS then is an enemy of the Sauds inside Saudi Arabia, but a useful fighting-oprganization for the Sauds\u2019 objectives outside<\/i> <\/span>Saudi Arabia.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The aggressor in the world isn\u2019t Shia; it\u2019s Sunni. And the custodians of the two holiest places in Islam \u2013 Mecca and Medina \u2013 are the extremist-Sunni Saud family, which America\u2019s government call \u2018friends.\u2019 The Saud family won what they have by conquest<\/span><\/a>: to allege they got it by either \u2018capitalism\u2019 or \u2018democracy\u2019 would be to insult both. Worse yet: it would be to lie. And they\u2019re no \u2018friends\u2019 of America. But maybe they are our masters. Here\u2019s how they managed to grab what they\u2019ve got:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Muhammad ibn Saud began by leading armies into Najdi [today\u2019s Saudi] towns and\u00a0villages to eradicate various popular and Shia practices.\u00a0The movement\u00a0helped to rally the towns and tribes of Najd to the Al Saud-Wahhabi\u00a0standard. By 1765 Muhammad ibn Saud’s\u00a0forces had established\u00a0Wahhabism–and with it the Al Saud political authority.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy marrying his son into Al-Wahhab\u2019s tribe, Muhammad Ibn Saud broke with custom but initiated a process that led to the unification of disparate tribes under one leader. \u2026 In return for their allegiance, Muhammad Ibn Saud offered his followers the prospect of conquest. \u2026 In 1746, Imam Al-Wahhab issued a formal proclamation of jihad against all those who refused to share his vision of Unity.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

That jihad continues today, but the U.S. government joins it, instead of repudiates and condemns it. The U.S. government is instead obsessed with conquering Russia<\/span><\/a>. This obsession started just while the Cold War against the Soviet Union and its communism was ending. It has dominated U.S. foreign policy ever since.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Inside Saudi Arabia, the Saud family, who financed Al Qaeda<\/span><\/a>, behead some of their own jihadists in order to achieve two objectives: first, to get rid of some of the Sunni extremists who say that the Sauds aren\u2019t sufficiently<\/i> extreme or \u201cpure\u201d; and, second, to please American and other suckers to believe that, in America\u2019s allying with the very same people who provide the funding to jihadists, the U.S. isn\u2019t acting against the interests of the American people. Even a beheading can be a PR stunt, in one way or another.<\/span><\/p>\n

And our government has been doing this since at least 1945, and especially since 1971 when the U.S. went off the gold standard and went onto the oil standard instead: oil would now be priced only in dollars<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hypocrisy of America\u2019s leaders<\/span><\/a> is what stinks enough to make rotting fish smell like fragrance by comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t even one<\/i> <\/span>U.S. Presidential candidate promising to end the selling of weapons to those jihadist tyrants (the Sauds and the other Arabic oil-potentates \u2013 all of the Sunni national leaders<\/span><\/a>), and to organize global economic sanctions against the Sauds and their friends the other funders of jihadism? Let those clans sell their oil and gas, but there should be an internationally coordinated arms embargo against them. Instead, the Sauds are by far the largest foreign purchasers of U.S. weapons (and, unlike Israel, they pay for all of it with their own inherited money, not with money that was donated to them by America\u2019s taxpayers).<\/span><\/p>\n

How else can jihadism be brought to an end in our time? Why isn\u2019t the reality behind jihadism<\/span><\/a> even being publicly discussed? Why?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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