| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| How to honor Jamal Khashoggi |
| Gary J. Schmitt; Michael Werz
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| 发表日期 | 2018-11-07
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | In the wake of the headlines about the brazen murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, we initiated in our private capacity an online petition that calls for renaming the street immediately in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington the “Jamal Khashoggi Way.” At the moment, the petition has been electronically signed by nearly 2,500 individuals. As the introduction to the petition indicates, there are two principled reasons behind our idea to publicly set this forward.
First, it is important for the Saudi government and its leadership to be reminded, and our American government to assert, that such behavior is unacceptable. It is unacceptable under international law and, even more fundamentally, it is a gross violation of basic human norms. Requiring Saudi officials to come to work every day at “Jamal Khashoggi Way” is one simple way to get this point across in a daily and concrete fashion.
Second, Khashoggi was an opinion contributor to the Washington Post. The point of our petition is not to suggest we agreed with everything he wrote. We leave that discussion to experts more knowledgeable about Saudi affairs than we. That said, our critical point is that a journalist associated with a major American newspaper was murdered because his writings apparently offended the current Saudi leadership. His murder is an assault on the core American principle of freedom of the press.
We are not so naive as to think that renaming a street will cause a sea change in Washington policymaking circles when it comes to Saudi Arabia. But we do think that this step would be both a lasting and important reminder to the Saudi government that Americans think such behavior is beyond the pale and, no less important, a reminder to the Washington community that “strategic partnerships” with autocratic states will rarely, if never, be without compromises to our liberal values.
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We are of course gratified that so many have signed the petition and do hope that it leads to the District of Columbia Council taking the proposal up. But, as The Hill and other media outlets have suggested, we are not activists. We are policy scholars at two distinct Washington think tanks. Our jobs are tied to putting forward the best policy proposals that we can rather than lobbying for them. That is for others to do and why we were careful not to put our institutional affiliations next to our names. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; Middle East
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| 标签 | foreign affairs
; Jamal Khashoggi
; Saudi Arabia
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/how-to-honor-jamal-khashoggi/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/264939
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Gary J. Schmitt,Michael Werz. How to honor Jamal Khashoggi. 2018.
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