The New Yorker: Washington selects Saudi Prince to remake Middle East
SANAA, April. 3 (YPA)- The New Yorker magazine said that the US administration of President Donald Trump found Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to be the “agent “to carry out the task of changing the Middle East region.
That came in a lengthy conversation done b Isaac Chotiner with by the American journalist Dexter Filkins , who said that Mohammd Binf Salmad had done a lot of Staff in the Middle East.
“If you look at what he’s done around the Middle East, he tried to overthrow the government of Qatar. He tried to overthrow the government of Lebanon. He‘s conducting a brutal and inexact bombing campaign in Yemen, and he’s jumped into the middle of the oldest conflict of our time: the Palestinian–Israeli one. I think by any measure, he’s been pretty rash in how he’s conducted himself,” Dexter Filkins said.
Asked Journalist Isaac Chotiner, about the” comparisons you draw in the piece is between Jared Kushner and MBS”, Do you think MBS is smarter or more competent, or does he just seem that way from far away?
Dexter Filkins answered: I think they kind of found each other, and whether that’s because they’re roughly the same age and they come from wealthy families, it’s hard to say. I think I find they have a lot in common, and I think they have a common vision for the region or one that’s pretty close. Jared said somewhere publicly when asked about the Middle East and all of its historical problems, he said, “I don’t care about the past.” In the Middle East the history is everywhere, all the time. So I would think that that would be a very fundamental difference between them, the kind of natural respect and reverence for the past that somebody like MBS would have to have, and contrast it with Jared’s kind of, you know, “The world began yesterday” view.
“I think they both do. I think they have different motivations, clearly, but Jared I think has certainly two goals. One is to solve the Israeli–Palestine conflict, and the other one is to contain Iran. I think he wants to do the first one in order to get everybody on board for the second one, so let’s solve the Palestinian problem very quickly, and then we’ll have the entire Arab world and Israel forming a kind of united front against Iran, and I think that’s kind of how he sees the region”, Dexter Filkins added.
Trump’s advisers, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon who wishes to bring about change in the region and that Mohammed Bin Salman was most glad to hear it and thus he was embraced as an agent of change, the magazine said.
The article talked about the role of Ambassador in Washington Yusuf Al Otaiba in the promotional campaign for the Crown as the next King of the next 50 years to come.
Abu Dhabi’s Mohammed Bin Zayed, is the one behind Mohammed Bin Salman’ influence because he saw a benevolent leader to fight his enemies, according to the magazine.
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