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When can we go back to normal?
For a year now, there’s been no unhindered exercising at the gym. No vacations. No visiting with friends. And no long lunches out at our favorite restaurants, once a thrice-weekly indulgence.After the pandemic started last February, we ceased all normal activities and have been trapped in a bubble.But now that we’ve received our second dose of the vaccine, can we resume normal activities? What is it safe to do?With nearly 3 million doses given in our country now against COVID-19, many ask the same questions. Should they hug their grandchildren? Attend gathering? Go shopping? What about having plumbers and electricians inside their homes? Or flying?COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been...
March 21, 2021

When can we go back to normal?

Judicial reforms on the way
A radical re-establishment of laws and legislations in a clear, specific and accurate manner, thus the basis for the work of the judiciary, is to implement the clear laws issued.This enables beneficiaries to predict judgments, raises the level of integrity and efficiency of the performance of judicial agencies, increases confidence in procedures and controls mechanisms, as they are integral in achieving justice, imposing limits to judicial responsibility and stabilizing legal references.In consequence, judges' discretionary authority to impose penalties and judgments that were primarily based on their experiences and trials are now limited.Additionally, judges will be restricted in their judgments due to previous vague judgments that have led to the discrepancy of rulings and the lack...
March 17, 2021

Judicial reforms on the way

Identifying real and reliable partners to serve mutual interests
The New York Times newspaper published on Feb. 16, 2011, leaked some of the contents of the classified document titled “Presidential Study Directives 11 (PSD 11)” prepared by the US National Security Agency. The newspaper indicated that the document recommended sacrificing a number of political regimes in the Middle East that have become a threat to US interests.Clare Lopez, a former CIA operative, confirmed during a Congressional hearing that this document called for the use of America’s capabilities to support the overthrow of allied governments and handing over power to the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt and North Africa, as well as to enable Iran to control the Arabian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.During the past two months, the new American administration hastened to...
March 10, 2021

Identifying real and reliable partners to serve mutual interests

Fundamentals of Saudi–US relations won’t be transformed into variables
THE historic Saudi-American relationship was not decided by the current administration in the United States. These strategic ties came into a reality when two of the world’s great men King Abdulaziz and President Franklin Roosevelt met in 1945 aboard the ship USS Quincy. That meeting witnessed the laying down of basic rules for a strategic relationship that is impossible to be compromised for strategic reasons concerning not only the two countries but also for the international stability and safeguarding of the global system.The political status of the Saudi leadership is not tested in the new unacceptable report in all its details, whether at the international or popular level, as the Saudi society shows unflinching loyalty to the institution of governance in Saudi Arabia led by...
March 02, 2021

Fundamentals of Saudi–US relations won’t be transformed into variables

Blackmailers cannot underestimate Saudi Arabia, the great entity
The American foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century had won great plaudits and respect thanks for its commitment to the principle of non-interference in the affairs of other countries, and its support for the freedom and independence of peoples, as contained in the Wilson Principles.This policy had contributed to the demise of the British Empire, whose colonial area covered 24 percent of the globe and nearly 23 percent of the world’s population in 1920. An evidence of this was the United States’ provision of a loan to Britain after World War II, in accordance with Article Seven of the Lend-and Lease Act that the US Senate passed on Oct. 23, 1941, and was conditional on giving up any colonial economic regimes after the end of the war.The states that make up the United...
March 01, 2021

Blackmailers cannot underestimate Saudi Arabia, the great entity

Saudis reject blackmail
With all due respect to the American Constitution, which has safeguarded the unity of the United States and the warmth of its growth and supremacy for more than two and a half centuries, I would like to point out that this legacy does not mean that there had been no interference on the part of this country in the internal affairs of other countries.This is more evident especially after the victory of the Democratic Party in the American elections of 2020. Many statements about human rights in the Kingdom, the Jamal Khashoggi case, and even our fight against corruption have been made negatively in the United States.Regardless of all these, which they may be ignorant of, it is to be noted that we the people of the Kingdom do not care about these records that have become boring. We enjoy the...
February 23, 2021

Saudis reject blackmail

HQ move is beneficial to all without exception
IN a historic decision that does not need any explanations, Saudi Arabia announced a halt to government agencies’ contracting with any foreign commercial company or establishment that does not have its regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia. This gives a clear message that it is we who deserve first in hosting the regional headquarters of these foreign companies. These companies have a large share of government contracts and projects, in addition to the fact that the Kingdom is a major and important market for these companies in terms of individual purchases of goods and services. Everyone will benefit from this decision, whether they are consumers or foreign companies themselves and the Kingdom’s economy as a whole. At the consumer level, they will directly benefit from the reduced...
February 18, 2021

HQ move is beneficial to all without exception

How can we forget!
IN 1952, Saudi Aramco’s board of directors and its chief executives moved from New York to Dhahran to work in the nascent Saudi city, which had become the main headquarters of the company after World War II.The shifting of the venue of headquarters came after years of government complaints about the delay in obtaining direct answers from Aramco officials in the Kingdom, as they had to, at the time, go back to the company management based in New York to take the decisions. At the same time, Saudi managers were saying that they did not feel that Aramco’s shareholders had respect for them, and were being treated as subordinates.In documenting the first era of Aramco’s history, the famous author William Mulligan says that the transfer of the headquarters undoubtedly served the interest...
February 17, 2021

How can we forget!

Who will confront Iran?
If the policeman of the world (America) has started using the language of evasive and exhausting statements towards Iran as well as the latter’s nuclear program and its meddling acts in the region since the administration of President Joe Biden took over the reins of power and pursues a policy of vetoing everything done earlier by the administration of his predecessor Donald Trump then there is an issue. Most notable among them is the revocation of the Houthi militia classification as a terrorist organization after it was endorsed by Trump ten days before his departure from the White House. And, thus today we are facing an imminent Iranian threat and an American administration with a soft position toward this danger. The question then begs who is there as an alternative to confront...
February 16, 2021

Who will confront Iran?

Saudi Arabia: A state of legislations and rights
WHILE discussing human rights in Saudi Arabia last Monday as the issue is raised outside the Kingdom every now and then, I wrote in my article: “The Kingdom, like any other country, does not claim that its human rights have reached perfection and it has an exemplary model, but at the same time, it is also working at an accelerated pace to promote and develop these rights.The Kingdom presents its reports, backed by accomplished facts, to citizens as well as to the international human rights organizations that participate in it. What has been achieved in this field during the last several years is considered as a big and very important leap.I would say this because I do know, as other observers know, that there have been ongoing efforts to develop many laws and legislations related to...
February 11, 2021

Saudi Arabia: A state of legislations and rights

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