Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism - Hardcover

Gold, Dore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895261359 ISBN 13: 9780895261359

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Dore Gold has the goods on Saudi Arabia, proving how it is actively supporting terrorism. Using previously unpublished documents, Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN and internationally known Middle East strategy expert, pieces together the links between the current wave of global terrorism -- from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia -- and the ideology of hatred taught in the schools and mosques of Saudi Arabia.

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Review:

In the global search for culprits and causes in the rise of terrorism, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold shines a spotlight on a nation many think of as a close ally of the United States: Saudi Arabia. As he explains in Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, Gold believes that the Saudi government is greatly influenced by the Islamist sect known as Wahhabism and, he explains, that influence has lead to Saudi support of terrorism in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and around the world. The historical portion of Gold’s argument, where he traces the emergence of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the changing face of Saudi leadership, is admirably extensive and detailed. His modern research is a little more uneven, relying on statements by various Muslim clergy members, letters to the editors of newspapers, opinion pieces, and other evidence that is rarely damnable. Curiously, mentions of Israel and the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict are much more infrequent than one would expect from an Israeli diplomat and scholar. But regardless of one’s opinion of Gold’s research or his alarming conclusions, the book offers something not often found in modern political nonfiction: a coherent structure, exhaustive research, and a clear and consistent perspective on the ongoing threat of terrorism. --John Moe

About the Author:

Dore Gold, the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, served as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999. Having served as foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, he has been a diplomatic envoy to the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, the Persian Gulf states, and the Palestinian authority and has been intimately involved in Arab-Israeli negotiations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0895261359
• ISBN 13: 9780895261359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309