If a Saudi academic and professor in politics& media “Dr. Ahmed bin Rashid bin Said” criticizes [Arabic] a Saudi state-owned Alarabiya satellite channel [owned by “Jawhara” the wife of King Abdullah of KSA], then this is a big development.
Dr. Ahmed, called Alarabiya a “hired guns” by the American or Israeli policy in the region, completing the US agenda, he went as far as saying that the channel loyalty to American interests is more than the American media [such as AlHurra].
Also among the media Dr. Ahmen criticized Saudi-owned asharqalawsat, and its chief editor Al-rashid [Chief of Al-arabiya channel also]
[Abd Al-rahman Al-rashid always claimed that he finished his studies in US universities, but he don’t speak a single English word]
In his report he said:
which means that the Israeli occupation of Palestine land in 1967-war is simply not occupation according Al-arabiya], but Rashid also was among the first writers who have supported the American invasion of Iraq before it occurs, and who defended him after it happened, for example:
The US directed its efforts towards the reconstruction of Iraq, rather than trying to reform it politically, is for the benefit of the Iraqis and Arab region….. Iraq enjoys unprecedented democracy, turning Saddam’s thirty years era into a complete open society allows the real emergence of public life, including the religious authorities.
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