Saudi Arabia has one of the biggest army of lobbyists of any country in the Western world. There are conferences, think tanks sponsored by the Saudi government all the time. The idea that Saudi Arabia doesn't get a hearing in the Western press is an absurd claim being made for many years. Al Jazeera is being blamed for Osama Bin Laden, who was a Saudi national last time I checked.
In this week's episode of the Sunday debate we go back to 2019. In the aftermath of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul we brought together leading experts to debate how the West should respond to the abrasive crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
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