With the confirmation that Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi officials in the country’s consulate in the Turkish capital Istanbul and the subsequent Saudi claim – when pressed – that he ‘died in a fistfight’. (1) Attention has focused largely on the Saudi cover-up of this trend-setting murder of a political dissident in a foreign country (2) and why the Saudis wanted Khashoggi dead. (3)
What is completely forgotten in this narrative is that Saudi Arabia and Israel are increasingly closely allied to one another and are fighting a dual front war against Iran and anyone who harms their collective interests. (4) Symptomatic of this is the fact that the Saudis actually used Israeli cyberwarfare capabilities to locate and track Khashoggi to ensure that he was successfully abducted and murdered. (5)
In addition to this the Israel Lobby and Israeli media have been smearing Khashoggi as a ‘supporter of terrorism’ (6) and by so doing they have revealed that as a prominent pro-Palestinian voice in the media, Khashoggi’s removal and/or death was also in Israel’s interests. (7)
Therefore we can see that Israel played – and continues to play – a significant and active role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-officials-deeply-skeptical-of-saudi-claim-khashoggi-died-in-fistfight/
(2) https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/saudi-operative-seen-on-camera-in-khashoggi-s-clothes-after-he-was-killed-report-sa-1.6577570
(3) https://www.timesofisrael.com/shortly-before-death-khashoggi-said-saudi-prince-has-tribal-leader-mentality/
(4) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43632905 ; https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-saudi-israeli-alliance-against-iran-two-major-middle-east-projects-are-about-to-collide/249485/
(5) https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2018/10/18/saudis-used-israeli-spyware-to-track-khashoggi-associate-leading-dissident/
(6) https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/saudi-murder-why-are-some-pro-israel-voices-speaking-out-against-jamal-khashoggi-1.6575681
(7) https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-khashoggi-was-a-victim-of-saudi-terror-and-a-supporter-of-palestinian-terrorism-1.6571267 ; https://mondoweiss.net/2018/10/lobbyists-khashoggi-terrorist/