Trump Rescues Saudis, Not Yemenis, During MBS Visit
The New Arab credits Trump for his timely intervention to free US citizen Saad Almadi, jailed for critical tweets, during an MBS visit. What this narrative conveniently omits is the price of such 'diplomacy.' While one American is freed, US administrations, including Trump’s, have consistently greenlit arms sales to Saudi Arabia, facilitating the brutal war in Yemen. A 2021 UN report documented
Saudi-led coalition actions amounting to war crimes in Yemen, supported by these very weapons. (Source: The New Arab, 2025-11-20) So, a US citizen's freedom is celebrated while the US actively enables a humanitarian catastrophe elsewhere. One might wonder if the Saudis simply wanted a good headline to whitewash their extensive human rights abuses and the ongoing war they inflict with
American-supplied firepower. Priorities, apparently, are a matter of convenience.