The gangster axis that seeks to control today’s world was this week on gruesome display at the White House.
In the very same week that he promoted his surrender plan for Ukraine, Donald Trump hosted one of the world’s bloodiest dictators, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In obedience to the laws of omerta that govern gangster politics, Trump sought to silence a journalist who had the temerity to ask about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Khashoggi was assassinated and his corpse hacked to pieces inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, on the orders of Trump’s friend Prince Mohammed.
But no crimes – however bloody and notorious – can be allowed to distract from Trump’s alliance with Prince Mohammed to realign the Arab world in the interests of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel.
Just as nothing is allowed to obstruct Trump’s alliance with another vile and corrupt dictator, Vladimir Putin. This week’s surrender plan has been devised in close cooperation with the Kremlin. Trump’s personal envoy to Putin is the Jewish property tycoon Steve Witkoff, a man with no expertise in the history and politics of Ukraine or other European nations, but who is (not coincidentally) also Trump’s personal liaison with Netanyahu.
The tragedy of Saudi Arabia is brought home to friends of real history when we consider that Prince Mohammed’s late half-brother Prince Fahd was a financial backer of the British historian David Irving.
Prince Fahd bin Salman (1955-2001) was the eldest son of the present King of Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and was best known in Britain as owner of many successful racehorses, including the 1991 Derby winner Generous. As described by Don Guttenplan in his Observer article ‘David Irving’s secret backers’ (3rd March 2002):
“In July [2001], Irving thought he’d finally found his ideal benefactor: Prince Fahd bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. The son of the governor of Riyadh and eldest nephew to King Fahd invited Irving to Harewood, his estate in Surrey. Just a month earlier Fahd had accompanied his father on a trade mission to Britain when he met the Queen and the Prime Minister.
“The meeting with Irving was arranged by Michèle Renouf, the mysterious blonde model who had been a constant presence at Irving’s side during the trial…
“The prince agreed terms via a telephone call from Riyadh a few days later. Renouf confirmed Irving’s account of the negotiations in an email to The Observer: ‘Tragically, the following day, the generous and fit prince died suddenly,’ she added.”
At the time of Prince Fahd’s death in 2001 his father (then Prince Salman) was Governor of Riyadh, a position he held from 1963 to 2011. Prince Salman was promoted in November 2011 to become Minister of Defence and Second Deputy Prime Minister. He was then promoted again in June 2012 to become Crown Prince, following the death of his brother Crown Prince Nayef.
Then in January 2015 he became King at the age of 79, following the death of his 90-year-old half-brother King Abdullah. So in just over three years Prince Salman rose from being Governor of Riyadh (a post he had held for decades) to King of Saudi Arabia.
When Salman became King, his half-brother Prince Muqrin (the youngest surviving son of Ibn Saud) automatically became Crown Prince, having previously been Deputy Crown Prince. However after just over three months, the new King Salman replaced Muqrin: he installed his nephew Prince Muhammad bin Nayef as the new Crown Prince.
Two years later on 21st June 2017, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef was himself replaced – and this time it seems to have been more like an internal coup, with the ousted Crown Prince being effectively placed under house arrest. There have been suggestions that he had become addicted to painkillers following an earlier assassination attempt.
Whatever the truth, there have been remarkable developments in the eight years since the appointment of the new Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman (the successive Crown Princes are sometimes referred to for convenience as MBN and MBS). The new Saudi policy became ever more militantly hostile to Iran and Qatar, and guided by Trump’s White House they have moved ever closer to Israel.
MBS is only 40 years old and is King Salman’s son by his third wife. (The King has had 13 children by his three wives. Prince Fahd’s mother was the first wife, who was also Salman’s cousin: they had six children and she died in 2011. Salman then had one child by his second wife, and another six by his third.)
King Salman will be 90 on New Year’s Eve and is understood to have mild Alzheimer’s and to have suffered a stroke from which he is not fully recovered. In effect, the 40-year-old Crown Prince runs the country.
For many years the Saudis’ favourite British politician was the pro-Zionist and homosexual Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski, who lobbied persistently both for the Saudis and for their ally Morocco. Since losing his parliamentary seat last year, Kawczynski has become chairman of a lobby group promoting trade with post-Gadafy Libya.
One thing seems certain: the new Israel-friendly Saudis, even when they can spare time and money from bombing their own civilians, will no longer consider it “appropriate” to assist David Irving’s campaign for real history.
