“Efforts to halt the fighting have made little progress. The war is also a political test for the kingdom’s coming man, Deputy Crown Prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman. As defense minister, he’s in charge of it and stands to lose face if it fails. Najran was home to one of the peninsula’s Jewish communities, about 200 strong, before the Saudis captured it in 1934 — with the help of a loan from Standard Oil of California, which Saudi leaders used to buy weapons and form a regular army, according to ‘The History of Saudi Arabia’ by Alexei Vassiliev. By 1949, the Jewish population had fled — to Yemen.”
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