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Link to tweet
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Saudi-Arabia-says-Lebanon-has-declared-war-on-it-513547?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Saudi Arabia said on Monday that Lebanon had declared war against it because of attacks against the Kingdom by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.
Saudi Gulf affairs minister Thamer al-Sabhan told Al-Arabiya TV that Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister on Saturday, had been told that acts of "aggression" by Hezbollah "were considered acts of a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia by Lebanon and by the Lebanese Party of the Devil."
underpants
(182,279 posts)The weekend purge and now this.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)is designed to drive up oil prices.
Me.
(35,454 posts)The Middle East is going to go up in flames....am waiting for Israel to jump in with the hope they can extend the war to Iran that Bibi has been jonesing for.
Iggo
(47,489 posts)Jared slips into S.A....Stays Awhile...Leaves...There is a Coup
Vision 2030
The Trump Administration has heavily courted the House of Saud; Trumps first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia. Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law, made an unannounced trip to the desert kingdom in late Octoberhis third this year. Officially, the focus was the Middle East peace process, but he has developed a close relationship with the Saudi Crown Prince. (Both are in their thirties.) The royal familys close ties to the Trump Administration have evidently made the king and his son feel comfortable about taking tough actions against their own people.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-saudi-royal-purge-with-trumps-consent
MBS is emboldened by strong support from President Trump and his inner circle, who see him as a kindred disrupter of the status quo at once a wealthy tycoon and a populist insurgent. It was probably no accident that last month, Jared Kushner, Trumps senior adviser and son-in-law, made a personal visit to Riyadh. The two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-saudi-crown-princes-risky-power-play/2017/11/05/4b12fcf0-c272-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?utm_term=.1cabc5d60840
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)It has to be done sooner or later -now is as good a time as any.
lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)Never heard of that before.