Lubna Olayan The Most Powerful Woman in Saudi Arabia Opens Davos in the Desert

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian billionaire Lubna Olayan said on Tuesday she is confident that Saudi government can resolve the affair surrounding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“I want to tell all our foreign guests that the terrible acts reported in recent weeks are alien to our culture .. I am sure that we will go and emerge stronger,” Olayan told an investment conference in Riyadh.

LWDLIK - I have just seen her speech on BBC and thus far I found her rhetoric on the whole Kashoggi murder to be the most rational. Great PR for Saudi. She is a woman, she was without hijab, she is a well educated, a billionaire, 63-years-old,  a mother-of-three, and the CEO of one of the biggest companies in Saudi. One might assume from this that she is able to have her own opinion on the matter regardless of any kind of backlash.

So we now await for Erdogan to make his speech and lay out the 'naked truth' and see how the next stage plays out.

Okay, Erdogan speech over and he really hasn't said anything we don't already know. No mention of audio tapes, nothing new. 

I have spoken to many Arabs about this murder and the general consensus is that it's nothing, and why are the western countries getting so bent out of shape. They refer to the constant murders committed by Mossad in foreign countries that no one seems to be overly concerned about. Israel does what it wants with impunity. And as much as I would like to argue that this is different, is it really? The world is an ugly place and it really is time that we all have respect for all human life.