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Yemen is a civil war that has turned into a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Things aren't black and white and its very hard distinguish between propaganda and facts.

Khashoggi is very black and white. A US journalist was killed after being lured into a Saudi embassy.

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Exactly. The fact that 1) he has a face we can identify with, and 2) they lured him into an official establishment of their government and then killed him in cold blood. A place where you might otherwise expect the rule of law to prevail.

Saudi laws aren't even codified. There isn't really a rule of law there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia

Yeah I understand that, what I mean is that from our perspective a person should be able to walk into a government office and be safe from extra-judicial sanctions. So a Saudi national may not feel that safe themselves, but it is harder for someone from a Western-style liberal democracy to intuitively understand and is therefore horrifying.

The press also hates when one of their own is killed (understandably). They have the power to keep it in the headlines, in this this case Turkey helped them out too.

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