Interessante opinie.
Israel Shamir:
"The potential for a great spectacle is all here. The arrest of dignitaries and princes of blood, including the famous Al-Walid bin al-Talal, well-known investor and Bakr bin Laden, brother of the most notorious Osama would normally feed the media for days. Add to it the marvelous setting of the glorious hotel on the verge of the desert. Make it even more dramatic by opening rocket fire on the escaping helicopter of Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, killing him and the other dignitaries who tried to flee.
Such a story, so brilliant and spectacular, with the color and costume of a Middle Eastern monarchy, could sell newspapers for a week at least. But it was followed by deafening silence.
The same media that overwhelms us with a flood of details and opinions in a case of human rights violations in Russia or China, in this case shows off an Olympic indifference to the fate of the princes and billionaires, unjustly and arbitrarily arrested and tortured in a country of no constitution or Habeas Corpus. The United Nations also joins in the conspiracy of silence.
This is probably the most unusual aspect of the story, reminiscent of The Dog that Didn’t Bark by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In that Sherlock Holmes story, a dog did not bark during the night when a racehorse was removed from a stable, and that indicated that the thief was the dog’s master.
In the case of MBS, the media dog keeps silent. It means that its mighty mega-owner, whom I called The Masters of Discourse, allowed and authorized the racket. We witness a unique media event, bordering on revelation. How could it be that a prince of a third-league state would be allowed the license to kidnap prime-ministers, kill princes by ground-to-air missiles, keep and torture great businessmen and dignitaries with impunity and the media would keep mum?"
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