Saudi Arabia literally butchered dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and has conducted mass executions for political offenses such as “disrupting the social fabric and national cohesion” and “participating in and inciting sit-ins and protests.” Condemnations of declared enemies’ human rights records stand in stark contrast with our looking the other way when allies engage in similar practices.Įgypt has imprisoned thousands of political prisoners since 2013 for offenses such as “insulting the president” or “spreading false news” after trials that lacked any semblance of due process. When we examine the response (or lack thereof) of our government to human rights violations under the Great Power paradigm, the contradictions between lofty rhetoric and support for human rights-infringing nations make more sense. geopolitical interests ahead of their own citizens. outpost in the Middle East and finally, to ensure that all Arab leaders place U.S. arms exports fourth, unconditional support for the State of Israel as the supposed U.S.
military equipment, accounting for 49 percent of all U.S. hegemony in the region has five main goals: first, to retain control over the distribution and price of oil in the global market second, to maintain more than 50 military bases in the Middle East third, to keep the Middle East as the largest purchaser of U.S.
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