Tag: Saudi Arabia

Nation-State

News Sources: Saudi Times

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2008-11-13 "Terrorism and criminality are the enemies of every religion and every civilization. They would not have appeared except for the absence of the principle of tolerance."
-- King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia,
The United Nations, New York City
2008-02-20 "In some of the ways it [= sharia] has been codified and practised across the world, it has been appalling. In some of the ways it has been applied to women in places like Saudi Arabia, it is grim."
-- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, public lecture in Cambridge, Britain
2008 In Saudi Arabia, the population is now more than 22 million (including expatriates), while 50% of Saudis are under 15 years old.
-- Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Economy and Statistics, Census Data [in Arabic],
2007-12-17 Ninety international delegations from Israel, Palestine, United States, EU, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, and other world's powers are attended the one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State in Paris to mobilize political support and to agree on an aid package worth billions of dollars to stabilise the Palestinian economy and give political impetus to the newly relaunched peace process with Israel.

Global donors pledge 7.4 bln US dollars for Palestinians.
2007-11-27 Stagnation in the peace process has increased the appeal of extremist ideologies.
[ ... ]
Feelings of despair and frustration have reached a dangerously high level.”
-- Saud al-Faisal, foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, during the Annapolis peace conference
2007-11-06 Pope Benedict XVI and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah held a historic meeting on Tuesday and discussed the situation of minority Christians in the Islamic country where the Vatican wants them to have more freedom.
2007-11-01 A nuclear Iran will not start by attacking Israel or Europe with nuclear weapons; it will use them as a shield for a more aggressive policy of direct and indirect attack on several U.S. allies (such as Saudi Arabia and the other oil producers in the Gulf).
-- According to Itamar Rabinovich in response to Barry Posen
2007-11-01 Unipolarity. By almost every reasonable measure the United States emerged from the Cold War as one of the most powerful states in history.
(a) Its population exceeded that of any other great or middle power except China and India, and has continued to grow.
(b) Its GDP was (and remains) two or three times that of its closest economic competitor.
(c) Even after post-Cold War reductions, U.S. military spending exceeded the combined defense budgets of most of the other large powers in the world; today it exceeds the defense spending of the rest of the entire world combined.
(d) U.S. military technology sets the world standard;
(e) its strategic nuclear and conventional forces are peerless.
(f) The United States had (and retains) command of the global commons—the sea, the air and space
(g) U.S. technical capabilities for intelligence collection far eclipse those of any other state. (Indeed, the U.S. intelligence budget alone has roughly equaled the entire defense budgets of Britain or France, two of the world’s most capable military powers, and the only ones other than the United States with any global reach.)
(h) The United States also enjoyed (and still enjoys) a favorable geographical position—with weak and friendly neighbors to the north and south, oceans to the east and west.
(i) The Cold War network of global alliances, coupled with massive investments in strategic lift, gave the U.S. military the ability to put large forces almost anywhere there is a coastline. In 1991, five U.S. divisions reached Saudi Arabia in four months, and nearly ten in six months.
-- According to Barry R. Posen, in his article, The Case for Restraint -- Foreign policy after George W. Bush
2007-11 In Saudi Arabia, a 19 year old gang-rape victim received a sentence of 200 lashes for riding in the car with her rapists.
2007-11 Tony Blair discussed the Annapolis conference plans with Saudi King Abdullah at his ranch outside the Saudi capital Riyadh.












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