S Arabia instrument of US imperialism

Q: What do you make of the recent condemnation by Amnesty International on the way things are dealt in Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights, freedom of expression etc.? It seems that despite condemnations in the past the Saudi regime as gone on as business as usual.  
 
Schoenman: Of course the Saudi regime, the royal regime in Saudi Arabia is a complete dictatorship of a family and it has a religious police as well, which terrorizes and imposes upon the population subordination to the royal family and its interpretation of Islam.
 
    The fundamental issue with respect to the Saudi royal family is that they function as a ‘cat’s paw’ instrument of US imperialism throughout the region and have done so for decades upon decades.
 
The Saudis as you indicated in the report earlier are the principle clandestine supporters of the al-Qaeda-like apparatus that was unleashed in Syria funded by the Saudis and the Qataris and the Emirates and that indeed is unfolding in Iraq today as you were indicating with your report with respect to the role of ISIS in Iraq, as well as in Syria.
 
But these are the fruit of allowing these types of regimes such as that in Saudi Arabia to pit people against each other on the basis of ethnicity and religious affiliation.
 
And I think it’s important to point out that, in the late 1970,s the Mossad had prepared a document called “The strategy for Israel” in the 1980s and that document called for the fragmentation of each country in the region into its ethnic and religious components in order to break up its national character.
 
That was a document embraced by the United States as its rationale for intervention in the region; to seize oil; to destroy the sovereignty of states and, in all of these undertakings, the Saudi regime has been a fundamental instrument. It was at work in Libya; it’s at work in Syria; it’s at work in Iran; it’s at work wherever it has the opportunity to deploy measures of terror and intervention for the purpose of destroying sovereignty in the country concerned and the rights of the populations at large.             
 
Q: What needs to change or happen in your opinion for the Saudi regime to be taken to account for its human rights violations?
 
Schoenman: What has to take place is a revolutionary struggle of the population at large to smash and overthrow this rotten regime, which is a country-selling regime – It’s not only true of Saudi Arabia, but it’s particularly so.
 
As long as the Saudi royal family is unchallenged, it will wreak havoc in the region as an instrument of reaction and of disintegration for the rights of peoples and the sovereignty of nations.