After Khashoggi, More Mainstream Reporting on al-Saud's Genocidal War on Yemen

One unquestionable benefit that has come from the Khashoggi affair is that the prestige press has suddenly started to publish more features on the genocidal war waged by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States against impoverished Yemen. Prior to Khashoggi there was the occasional blurb pulled from a wire service and the rare, like once every three months, feature. Now Yemen is au courant. It even made the morning blog post of the hipster Emerald City weekly:

This piece on Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen is absolutely heart-breaking: Read it. But maybe wait till the end of the day—I’m warning you that while journalism like this is absolutely necessary, some of these graphic images of emaciated, starving children could be enough to stop your day cold in its tracks—and maybe it should?

French President Emmanuel Macron really doesn’t want to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia: European countries are asking Macron to halt sales over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he’s responded, “What’s the link between arms sales and Mr. Khashoggi’s murder? I understand the connection with what’s happening in Yemen, but there is no link with Mr. Khashoggi.” He understands, he doesn’t understand—either way he’s got an itch to sell. In 2017, our president Donald Trump signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Oh yeah, that deal also calls for $350 billion “of additional defense purchases over the next 10 years.”

The Macron story is even better than that because it shows how Macron is actually jousting with Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, nations that have taken tougher positions on the House of Saud.