Other 500 million dollar investments of the Saudi ruler are the largest yacht in the world, and an unique Leonardo de Vinci painting.
Bin Salman is considered a modernizer but these foreign investments make no sense if his mind is busy planning his country's future. To whom can be Bin Salman compared? Chauchescu built a fantastic palace while Romania starved. Just now nobody else comes to my mind.
Arabia has an important industrial base operated by foreign manpower. I have seen here sacks of poliethylene produced by a Saudi Petrochemical firm. They have a large desalination industry: the capital Riyadh is supplied with desalinated water pumped from the sea over a distance of 467 km. Water is provided almost for free. The service is uncertain: in Riyadh tap water is available once every 2.5 days, while in Jeddah, every 9 days.
The Saudi army is superbly equipped but is failing in the war against barefooted Houthis. No wonder: Who would put his life in harm's way to defend Bin Salman's French palace?
P.S: As Jews and Zionists,what should be our attitude towards the Saudi Dictator? We are a decent, democratic, humanist society. We should try to minimize our contact with these Bedouin thieves and murderers, rich as they are. We may be poorer and weaker, but we must maintain a minimum of self-respect.
Bin Salman is a friend of Israel J.
ReplyDeleteYes. I know that Arabs want their leaders to live in gilded luxury, but the sight of that fantastic French palace may not improve the moral of the Saudi soldier fighting fanatics in the mountains of Yemen.
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