Why Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to keep links with Israel
Are the Abraham accords over?
IT FEELS like an image from an alternate reality. Hundreds of bankers and executives will descend on Riyadh this week for the Future Investment Initiative, a flashy investment conference dubbed “Davos in the desert”. The money men will try to pretend it is business as usual but the Middle East is boiling.
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