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Let the Fool & Lunatic Speak While the Rational & Wise Listen!In a recent conference in Davos, the Saudi Government high profile representatives of by Ministers, businessmen and high-ranking investment personalities exerted maximum efforts concentrated on a damage control mission. The kingdom sent to the conference one of its strongest delegations ever to the Swiss mountain resort and packed its top executives' agenda with meetings with international business peers.The Saudi government hoped to make Davos gathering a platform whereby they would have a chance for them to try to put behind them months of intense criticism over the murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October. Khashoggi's killing by a team of Saudi operatives provoked widespread revulsion and tarnished the image of the Crown Prince, previously admired in the West for pushing deep changes including tax reform, infrastructure projects and allowing women to drive which was, perhaps, one of his tricks to beautify his image which did not last long.To the dismay of the conscientious people of the world, the damage control efforts seemed to have worked a little bit and found opportunist minds who cared about investments that started to give in to the Saudi efforts, forgetting their duties to human beings and to ethical standards which they have blemished by their caving to the Saudi wish of putting the killing of an innocent man of free thought behind. I was mostly disgusted by the hosting Swiss President Ueli Maurer whose statements reflected an unethical, irrational, inhuman, ignorant, opportunist and unrealistic stand by saying in in order to build strong relations with Riyadh. He announced to a swiss Agency, We have long since dealt with the Khashoggi case. We have agreed to continue the financial dialogue and normalize relations again, It is unfortunate that a country like Switzerland which we have long considered a country of ideals, democracy and freedom bows to the Saudi money and sells its morality for a Saudi Riyal. This President deserves to have his tongue dealt with by someone like Mohammad bin Salman and the way his operatives and security men dealt with the late Journalist Khashoggi.While the ugly Swiss President challenges his country's long-standing ideals and democratic standards, there are many others who took an outstanding moral and humanitarian stand towards Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince. Earlier, however, a number of the most prominent and outstanding international investors stayed away from the Crown Prince's annual Future Investment Initiative conference held in October 2018, which was overshadowed by the Saudi Journalist's death. Afterwards, at a summit of the G20 big economies in Buenos Aires, leaders appeared to ignore the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on stage during the family photo, even if many went on to have closed-door bilateral meetings with him afterwards.Certainly no one holds the Saudi people responsible for the killing of Journalist Khashoggi and I fully agree with the announcement of Chairman of the Saudi Capital Market Authority, a Saudi official, saying Speaking not just as a government employee but as a Saudi citizen, everyone in Saudi has been absolutely horrified by what happened. Yet, a country of 30 million people should not be held hostage by an event, no matter how heinous it was, particularly at this point in time when we have been working very hard to set a new course for the country. One should really admire Bill Browder, a critic of Vladimir Putin, who successfully pushed through some of the harshest U.S. sanctions against Russia for the killing of his lawyer, known as the Magnitsky Act, said the same sanctions should be applied to Saudi Arabia. Until Mohammed bin Salman bears responsibility for this crime, there cannot be business as usual with Saudi Arabia, Honest Browder told Reuters.

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