The shocking brutality of Jamal Khashoggi’s  abduction and murder by Saudi security forces cannot be papered over, no  matter how implausibly it is dressed up as an interrogation gone wrong or the work of rogue actors.

But its implications  go deeper than the tragedy visited upon Khashoggi’s family and fiancee.  It raises fundamental questions for the United States and Israel about  their whole strategic concept in the Middle East.

On the one hand,  cynics could argue that the brazenness of Khashoggi’s murder differed  only in degree, than kind, from the longstanding behavior of Arab  autocrats, including those allied with the United States.

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