Senior Saudi Journalist Turki Al-Dakhil: Trump Will Be Good For Gulf States

memri ^ | Nov-16-2016

[FreedomUS]

While many writers in the Saudi and Gulf media reacted to the election of Donald Trump for U.S. president with mixed emotions, expressing hopes for cooperation with him but also concern because of his hostile statements regarding Muslims,[1] Turki Al-Dakhil, the general manager of Al-Arabiya's news channel, took a much less ambivalent position, stressing the possible benefit of Trump's election for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. In a November 13, 2016 article titled "On Trump-Phobia," he wrote that Trump's statements against African Americans, Latinos and Muslims had been mere propaganda aimed at achieving electoral gains, and that now that the elections were over, Trump would rule according to law. He also stressed that Trump's foreign policy advisor, Walid Phares, had confirmed Trump's desire to strengthen U.S. ties the Gulf in order to combat terrorism and confront the Iranian expansion, and this in contrast to Obama, who flirted with the Iranian axis and rewarded it.

[FreedomUS]

I still don’t believe that all Jazeera (which is Doha based) will be soft on Trump

[bankwalker]

Is that his real name? On thanksgiving?

[FreedomUS]

Thanks for making us smile...

[dp0622]

Yeah, cause Trump completely forgo and let go of 9/11.

He wont perform a military attack on them, but he can bury them with bankruptcy by making us 100 percent independent regarding oil.

[AZLiberty]

Barack Obama's presidential terms brought our region nothing but hesitance toward the Iranian axis, while flirting with it and rewarding it, and strictness toward the Gulf axis, while evading agreements. So let him go as no one will weep about his White House departure!

I suspect few will weep, even on the Democrat side, when Obama when the White House door finally hits Obama on the rear end. While there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over Hillary's election loss, Democrat history will see Obama as the proximate cause of the death of the Party.

[AZLiberty]

Try that again: Barack Obama's presidential terms brought our region nothing but hesitance toward the Iranian axis, while flirting with it and rewarding it, and strictness toward the Gulf axis, while evading agreements. So let him go as no one will weep about his White House departure!

I suspect few will weep, even on the Democrat side, when the White House door finally hits Obama on the rear end. While there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over Hillary's election loss, Democrat history will see Obama as the proximate cause of the death of the Party.

[FreedomUS]

Whatever polls there are out there (if accurate at all) on Obama’s approval, it can only be about him personally on his manners. Not about his policies...