Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC Nov. 14, 2016 Imploring Israelis, Fallout of Yemen War, Wahhabism, Congress Rebellions CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries Saudis implore Israelis for help CDHR Analysis: The Saudi royals are petitioning the Israelis to save them. As the president of the Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee, Salman al-Ansari, says in this Hill blog post, the Saudis are imploring Israel to resuscitate their collapsing economy and defend them against ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC September 15, 2016 Objectives and Impact of the Failing War in Yemen, Blaming America and Honor Killings CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries At What Price Supporting Saudis’ Invasion and Destruction of Yemen? CDHR Commentary: Motivated to restore US relations with Iran for many reasons, including taking charge of executing American polices in the Arab World directly instead of going through the Saudis, the Obama Administration negotiated ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC August 16, 2016 Yemen Quicksand, Impact of Extremism, Saudi Haters CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries The Saudis Should Have Known That Yemen is a Quicksand CDHR Commentary: Having failed to terrorize the impoverished 26 million Yemenis into submitting to the Saudi rulers’ military and financial might, the Saudis seem to have reverted to their original but equally doomed plan: dividing Yemen, which they tried to do in the past. Partitioning ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC June 21, 2016 Saudi Economic Reform, Uber To Saudi Arabia, How To Defeat ISIS, Who Mutilates Islam CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries The Saudi Economic Plan Won’t Fly Without The US, But At What Price? CDHR Commentary: It remains to be seen, but after decades of total dependence on an oil-based economy, in a country that has been iron-fistedly controlled by an autocratic royal family, a novice prince (Mohammed Bin Salman, MbS) promises to re ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC April 22, 2016 Obama Visit, Gulf Rulers’ Vulnerability, Demotions and Turmoil in Arab States and Islamophobia CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries President Obama off to Saudi Arabia at a Time of High Anxieties and an Uncertain Future CDHR Commentary: On the eve of his flight to Saudi Arabia, prognosticators and other Washington pundits are urging President Obama to repair fractured US/ Saudi relations when he meets with King Salman on Wed ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC March 11, 2016 Inclusive Caliphate, Defeating ISIS, Blaming Women and Back Door Municipal Elections CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries  Is a Saudi-Led Caliphate in the Making?        CDHR’s Analysis:  While the major international powers are futilely trying to stop ISIS’s ideological and territorial gains, a more inclusive Muslim Caliphate seems to be in the making. Realizing its inability to survive wi ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC January 26, 2016 CDHR’s Commentaries and Analyses The Saudi Royals’ Perilous Responses to External Conflicts, Economic Downturn, Domestic and Regional Threats, and Declining Influence Saudi Mass Executions: A Colossal Miscalculation CDHR’s Commentary: While most people in the world are celebrating the dawn of 2016 and are hoping for a better year that is free from extremism and terrorism, the Saudi people are forewarned by their absolute ru ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC November 20, 2015 Escalating Terrorism In The West, Lethal Ideology, OIC Must Be Challenged CDHR’s Analysis And Commentaries Emasculating Lethal Ideology Starts In Saudi Arabia CDHR’s Commentary: In his annual pilgrimage speech on September 23, 2015, the Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Ashaikh (the highest religious authority in the land), called on Sunni Muslims to rid the world of the enemies of Islam. The Mufti insisted t ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC September 23, 2015 Royals’ Vulnerability, Impact of Regime’s Policies, Women and Municipal Elections CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries The Saudi Overriding Motive to Replace Assad. CDHR’s Commentary: Contrary to their public pontifications against President Assad’s crimes, the Saudi regime, the new “Ottoman Sultan” of Turkey, Erdogan, the Muslim Brotherhood and their friends want to overthrow the brutal secular Syrian dictator ...Continue Reading

Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC August 17, 2015 The Saudi Future, The West And The War On Terrorism CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries Saudi Arabia: The Elephant In The Room CDHR’s Commentary: Despite its status as the epicenter of extremism, religious intolerance, corruption, an exporter of lethal dogma, violator of its citizens’ basic human rights and supporter of extremists and terrorists worldwide, the Saudi regime is not only spared Western governments’ admonitions, bu ...Continue Reading