Sunday, July 01, 2012

A propagandist and enforcer of the House of Saud is named a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School

A well-known Western journalist in the Middle East (who does not want to be identified) sent me this:  "Hi As'ad, have you this? Obaid is a government intelligence snoop who's job is to harrass foreign media. He stoops to personal and mysogenist insults against women journalists and has been tasked by Nayefs people with pressuring major outlets like...who want an office and correspondents there. He has a personal grudge against..., the information minister is powerless before him and he even demanded that one news agency stop talking to diplomats off the record if they wanted a journalist in the country and threatened to have the office closed. He has also threatened legal action. He is a....and now this. 
I'm mean, jeez."


PS Obeid, of course, learned Zionism at the feet of his masters at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.  A protege of Nayif at home is presented as a "reformer" in the US.  How convenient.  


PPS Can you imagine if the man in question was a propagandist for the Syrian regime? The phony Harvard Zionist liberals would be up in arms.  In fact, if this happened in the 1980s or 1970s, there would have been an uproar at Harvard but the Zionists are now more than pleased with the open honeymoon alliance between Israel and House of Saud.  Late in the 1970s, people at Princeton protested because a Saudi (a friend of mine) as admitted (on his grades) to the college.  They were furious and the school paper carried protesting articles. But then again: you only expect moral inconsistency (or Zionist consistency) from Zionist liberals.