Tikvah
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February 26, 2021

Striking the Proper Balance on Saudi Arabia

The U.S. must find a way to chastise, while still supporting, this problematic but necessary ally.

Yesterday President Biden spoke with the Saudi king ahead of the release of a long-awaited CIA report on the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives in 2018. While it is likely that the Biden administration will take the report’s conclusions as further reason to create more daylight between Washington and Riyadh, Dennis Ross and Robert Satloff urge the White House to find the right balance when it comes to dealing with this important but problematic ally:

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