Khashoggi has been missing since he entered the consulate in Istanbul on
Tuesday. "Based on their initial findings, the police believe that the
journalist was killed by a team especially sent to Istanbul and who left the
same day," the government source said.
The Washington Post columnist was known as a sharp critic of crown prince
Mohammad Bin Salma, and criticized his domestic and regional measures. There are
some points in this regard that should be taken into considerations:
1- As expected, European officials, who along with the United States, are among
Saudi Arabia's main arms-supporters, have avoided to take any explicit, formal,
and serious stance on the missing of the Saudi journalist. Al-Saud's
petrodollars in the accounts of European governments have caused them to remain
silent at this time in spite of Saudi family's obvious crimes.
The way Western officials encountered with the case of Jamal Khoshoggi has once
again challenged the selective approach of human rights-defenders to this issue.
Meanwhile, Western authorities have used both their public and covert diplomacy
capacities to avoid turning the issue into a hot topic in their citizens' minds.
However, the key question is whether this effort will be effective or not?
2. It is certain that the vicious efforts of the Western officials to cover
those cases such as Jamal Khashoggi's murder, aren't going to succeed at the
present time! The United States and the occupying regime of Quds, as the main
two players involved in kidnapping and murdering Khashoggi, spent a lot on
setting up their "political" and "media" games in the international system. But
the power of the independent media and the disclosures made by independent
journalists in such cases prevent the implementation of this vicious
cooperation.
Since 2000 and the presence of George W. Bush presence at the White House, the
United States and its European allies have repeatedly failed to overturn and
distort the existing facts in the world and in the region. This failure also
applies to the case of Khashoggi's murdering. Obviously, despite the desire of
the Saudi security agencies, the United States, the Zionist regime and European
countries claiming to be the defenders of human rights, the case of Jamal
Khoshaggi will become one of the most important "media-security" cases in the
near future. Even Saudis' billions of petro-dollars can't prevent the formation
of this trend.
3. The likely abduction and murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in
Istanbul occurred exactly at a time when Saudi officials were under constant
pressure due to military defeat in Yemen and Syria and political defeat in Iraq,
Bahrain and Lebanon. Beyond that, the news from the Saudi court reveals numerous
and fundamental disputes existing between the survivors of Abdulaziz!
Disputes that have led to internal conflicts in the court and even attempts to
assassinations among Saudi princes. We have recently witnessed an example during
the attack on Mohamed bin Salman and the shooting incident at the King's Palace,
an incident that Saudi officials had been hardly trying to keep as a secret, but
ultimately didn't succeed!
4. Along with the ruling anarchy in the Saudi court, we are witnessing the
emergence of serious conflicts in Western countries over the European
authorities' support for the Saudi regime. In Germany, for instance, we can once
again see that arguments has raised over ban of arms sale to Saudi Arabia for
the crimes committed in the Yemeni war.
Although the Chancellor of Germany, members of the German Democratic Party, and
even the leaders of the Social-Democratic Party are all silent about this, and
continue their give-and-take with the criminal regime of Saudi Arabia, but the
protest of their citizens, the media and even some opposition parties has caused
Angela Merkel and her entourage to be under pressure for this. The same is true
in France and the United Kingdom: two veto-power wielded countries in the UN
Security Council that have the blood of Yemeni children on their hands.
In the end, it must be said that the vicious silence of Western leaders against
the incident of kidnapping and assassination of Jamal Khashehchi once again
exposed the true face of the claimants of human rights and exposed their true
face to the public opinion of the world.
Source: Mehr