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JL;DR SUMMARY ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur dissects Trump's recent speech in Riyadh, highlighting a return to US foreign policy rooted in economic alliances rather than ideological intervention. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

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Abraham AccordsSaudi ArabiaIranDonald TrumpHuman RightsGulf StatesUs Foreign PolicyMiddle East PolicyEconomic Alliances

Places mentioned

United States
"And what we are planning on doing today is going through a speech that U.S. President Donald Trump gave on May 13th in Saudi Arabia and discussing its implications for the Mideast and also Israel specifically."
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"It really laid out a lot of his... Just... I don't know. Just everything that he stands for in so many ways. Did you have that impression when you were watching or reading the speech yourself, Khabib? Absolutely. He goes from, you know, all of his domestic politics, Americans' jobs are coming back and the tariffs are working and all the things that the Biden administration did wrong and the prices are dropping on consumer goods. And then he pivots to the Saudis and the Emiratis and the Qataris and he lavishes them. With compliments. And then he really takes what is a... He presents a vision of how American foreign policy should be, or rather what it should not be, which is this... He goes after interventionists, people who thought they could nation-build and ended up wrecking nations. And he says, everything you've built, everything we've seen here, these beautiful places, he talks about the skyscrapers of Riyadh, was done in an Arab way."
Egypt
"All of them had been held, most of the time together, in an Egyptian prison for more than three and a half years."
Israel
"And what we are planning on doing today is going through a speech that U.S. President Donald Trump gave on May 13th in Saudi Arabia and discussing its implications for the Mideast and also Israel specifically."
Qatar
"And then he pivots to the Saudis and the Emiratis and the Qataris and he lavishes them."
Iraq
"The biggest and most destructive of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond."
Lebanon
"The biggest and most destructive of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond."
Syria
"The biggest and most destructive of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond."
Yemen
"The biggest and most destructive of these forces is the regime in Iran, which has caused unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond."
Turkey
"The Saudis assassinated a journalist. It's a terrible thing. That journalist was a supporter of the radical versions of Islam that produced terrorism."
Iran
"The Jews who paved the way on this are the Qataris, who bought so much of American politics and American industry and Wall Street and the universities."
United Arab Emirates
"A similar, smaller, but similar process happened in the Emirates."
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