On Valentine’s Day 1945, a Franklin D. Roosevelt at the gates of death met with Abdul Aziz Ibn Saúd in Suez Canal waters. The president of the United States and the king of Saudi Arabia did not agree on virtually anything, but they fell well. They had summoned to speak of a possible state for the Jews in Palestine — Ibn Saúd rejected it — but that conversation would end up being the germ of a strategic alliance that would later replicate other c…
On Valentine’s Day 1945, a Franklin D. Roosevelt at the gates of death met with Abdul Aziz Ibn Saúd in Suez Canal waters. The president of the United States and the king of Saudi Arabia did not agree on virtually anything, but they fell well. They had summoned to speak of a possible state for the Jews in Palestine — Ibn Saúd rejected it — but that conversation would end up being the germ of a strategic alliance that would later replicate other c…