When dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the world was outraged. To kill a prominent critic in a violent, preplanned attack against international laws and norms under diplomatic cover in a foreign country was not just evil; it was also the equivalent of Saudi Arabia giving the middle finger to allies who have been bending over backward to support it. The regime’s subsequent lies only make matters worse.

With evidence increasingly showing that the order for Khashoggi’s death came from the highest levels of the Saudi regime, Israel came to the defense of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.