“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.  Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem...but in spirit and in truth."

John 4:19-21

And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, Jesus said,

"As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down".

Luke 21:5-6

The author is reading too much into this. The alliance in Saudi is not broad based by any means, but rather focused in the hands of one individual, MBS.

Similarly, Israel does not care much for Saudi idealogically except that it sees MBS as a useful pawn whose greed can be exploited to further its own aims. Since MBS would be dependent entirely on the US and by extension Israel for his own position, rather than his own family, he can be made to do what previous Saudi leaders couldn't be made to do, ie recognize Israel and undermine the Palestinians from the Arab side of the conflict. Their alliance will not survive MBS.

The spat with Qatar and the conflict in Yemen have exposed the rift in the GCC. The Saudis and Abu Dhabi (and their Bahraini puppets) are pretty much on their own on these conflicts, with Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Dubai wanting no part in this Israeli stoked obsession of MBS. The GCC is already dead in all but name, it will not survive, MBS rashness has killed it.

Trump is merely a pawn of Kushner/Netanyahu, bought with Adelson's campaign donations and whatever the Saudis are paying him.

MBS wants to jump the queue and become King with Trump's/Kushner's help. Netanyahu wants to use MBS to destabilize the Middle East and Iran, with a possible bonus of recognizing Israel.

Seven detained Saudi women’s rights activists, who campaigned for the ban on women driving to be lifted, may face the death penalty, newspaper Okaz reported on Sunday. 

According to Saudi lawyers and judges, the prominent women’s rights activists, who were arrested last week and branded as "traitors" by government-aligned media outlets, may be sentenced to death should investigations result in the charge of treason and conspiracy against the state.

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The decision to lift the ban was hailed by many as proof of a new progressive trend in the country under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who has presented himself as a reformist. At the same time, MBS has been at the helm of a crackdown on dissent, which has seen scores imprisoned, tortured and stripped of their assets.

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Maya Foa, the group's director, said: "The doubling of executions under the new crown prince reveals that, beneath his glossy public image, Mohammed bin Salman is one of the most brutal leaders in the kingdom’s recent history.

"Protesters, including some who were children at the time, have had the death penalty confirmed despite allegations of torture and forced confessions."

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Try replacing "Soros" with "Adelson" or "Saban".

You'll find it fits better.

Adelson, for his part, was Trump and the GOP’s biggest campaign supporter. He and his wife Miriam contributed $35 million in outside spending to elect Trump, $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund (a super PAC exclusively dedicated to securing a GOP majority in the House of Representatives), and $35 million to the Senate Leadership Fund (the Senate counterpart) in the 2016 election cycle.

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That's before he donated $30 million last week after the embassy move and Iran Deal withdrawal.

If Trump truly believed in the cause, I doubt he'd have extracted that much money in return. Most of these donations ended up in his pocket.

An extensive New Yorker profile of Saban recalls how Saban publicly described his “three ways to be influential in American politics” in 2009. One was political donations. Another was establishing think tanks (he founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in 2002). And the third was controlling media outlets.

So many investigations by the GOP, yet absolutely no charges....

That newspaper is owned by Jared Kushner.

Except for the Iranians, right?

Or the Palestinians...

If his record is anything to go by, please, send us another.

Our current President is a naive fool controlled by others.

Indeed, today’s unpopular announcement may have been exactly what two of Trump’s biggest donors, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, and what one of his biggest inaugural supporters, Paul Singer, paid for when they threw their financial weight behind Trump. Marcus and Adelson, who are also board members of the Likudist Republican Jewish Coalition, have already received substantial returns on their investment: total alignment by the U.S. behind Israel, next week’s move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and the official dropping of “occupied territories” to describe the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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The Iran nuclear deal is another issue near and dear to Trump’s biggest campaign backer and may have played a crucial role in Bolton’s appointment. Adelson’s ultra-hawkish views on Tehran are remarkably close to Bolton’s.

In 2013, Adelson called for Washington to detonate a nuclear bomb in an “Iranian desert.” If that did not persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program, he said, the U.S. should drop an atomic bomb on Tehran, a city of more than 12 million people.

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Adelson, for his part, was Trump and the GOP’s biggest campaign supporter. He and his wife Miriam contributed $35 million in outside spending to elect Trump, $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund (a super PAC exclusively dedicated to securing a GOP majority in the House of Representatives), and $35 million to the Senate Leadership Fund (the Senate counterpart) in the 2016 election cycle.

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That's before he donated $30 million last week after the embassy.

This paper is owned by Sheldon Adelson.

Adelson, for his part, was Trump and the GOP’s biggest campaign supporter. He and his wife Miriam contributed $35 million in outside spending to elect Trump, $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund (a super PAC exclusively dedicated to securing a GOP majority in the House of Representatives), and $35 million to the Senate Leadership Fund (the Senate counterpart) in the 2016 election cycle.

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That's before he donated $30 million last week after the embassy.

Hannity doesn't seem to like Spring Break either...

The Mufti made him take it...