’Israeli’-Arab Conspiracy to Eradicate Yemen
By Darko Lazar
The Yemen that Washington and Arab monarchies in the Gulf had dreamt up, no longer exists. The carefully manufactured transition of power following the 2011 revolution in the country, collapsed with the popularly backed takeover of the government by the Ansarallah movement earlier this year.
In February, Sayyed Abdel-Malik al-Houthi said "the Yemeni people have taken a giant step forward in their march towards freedom, dignity and independence."
The 33-year-old leader of the Ansarallah movement defended his group's actions adding that "some political forces and collaborators, within and outside Yemen, have failed to understand that the Yemeni people are adamant they will achieve their legitimate, lawful and just demands to establish a dignified way of life."
Factions from across Yemen's political spectrum, including Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's own General People's Congress party, supported the resignation of the president on January 22nd along with Houthi efforts to bring stability to the country. Naturally these developments caused panic especially among member states of the so-called Gulf Cooperation Council.
On the 23rd of March as the hastily assembled Saudi-led coalition launched its war of aggression against Yemen, Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi Ambassador to the US told NBC's "Meet the Press" that "this is a war to protect the people of Yemen and defend its legitimate government."
This is not an April fool's joke, but the official line coming out of Saudi Arabia, which lacks a constitution, holds no elections, and brutally cracks down on any sign of domestic political dissent.
According to the award winning author and noted geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, the truth about what is going on in Yemen "has been turned on its head".
In his latest piece for "Global Research" Nazemroaya writes, "The instability in Yemen is being caused by...decades of support that Saudi Arabia has provided for authoritarian and unpopular rule in Yemen."
The Saudi monarchy's hegemonic grip over parts of the region has been waning for years. And nowhere is this clearer than in Yemen where despite foreign efforts to ignite sectarian strife, the Houthis have mobilised the support of both the Shiite and Sunni communities in their fight against an oppressive, corrupt and authoritarian government led by Al-Hadi.
The West and Riyadh's simplistic sectarian narrative has been focused on discrediting this popular movement and painting Ansarallah as a proxy Iranian Shiite militia.
According to the US-based "Foreign Policy Magazine", "if a war breaks out along sectarian lines, it will not be because that is where historical divisions have lain in Yemen; it will be because the war's foreign funders are inflaming previously unimportant divisions."
Of course this formula has proven to be rather effective on countless occasions. Riyadh's support for al-Qaeda-linked extremists in countries like Syria is hardly a secret. Now, its bombing campaign in Yemen is sure to give new vigour to [AQAP] or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which ironically enough Washington considers the deadliest branch of the terrorist group.
On March 20th, several days before the aerial campaign against Yemen kicked-off, over 140 people were killed in bomb attacks targeting worshipers at two Shiite mosques in Sanaa. During a televised speech a few days later, the Houthi leader pointed the finger of blame at Arab monarchies in the Gulf.
"Is there a just and equitable position for Gulf Arab states toward the Yemeni people? Is there any position other than to send support, money and weapons, to the Takfiri elements, and to facilitate the atmosphere for al-Qaeda in the southern provinces," Abdel-Malik al-Houthi said in his speech.
But it's not just Riyadh's collaboration with al-Qaeda, which is destabilising the region. The Saudi monarchy, which is terrified at the prospect of a comprehensive agreement between the P5+1 group of countries and Iran over Tehran's nuclear energy program, has found a friend in the "Israeli" regime.
A nuclear agreement would seriously undermine efforts on the part of Tel Aviv and Riyadh in their lobbying of the US government to launch military attacks against Iran.
In his unprecedented and demagogic speech to the US Congress earlier this year, during which a foreign leader attacked White House policy from the House floor, the "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu practically pleaded with American lawmakers to go to war with Iran.
"Backed by Iran, Houthis are seizing control of Yemen, threatening the strategic straits at the mouth of the Red Sea. In the Middle East, Iran now dominates four Arab capitals, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sanaa. And if Iran's aggression is left unchecked, more will surely follow," Netanyahu said.
Of course what Netanyahu is really worried about when it comes to Yemen is the fact that another element of the Resistance Axis, which also includes Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah, had led a popular revolution against a Saudi puppet regime and set out to carve a new path of freedom and democracy for their nation.
The Saudis and the "Israelis" with Washington's blessing agreed that the Houthis had to be stopped. They had the wrong friends and they were doing all the wrong things.
Perhaps it is little surprise than that reports have started emerging of "Israeli" jets taking to the skies above Yemen alongside the Saudis. According to the Secretary General of Yemen's Al-Haq political party Hassan Zayd, "Israeli" fighter jets have taken part in airstrikes on Yemen.
In a Facebook post Zayd wrote, "this is for the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with Arabs."
The Gulf monarchies have enjoyed a discretely good relationship with Tel Aviv over the years. But it seems that in Yemen the gloves have come off. The Saudis are becoming increasingly desperate to counter their recent losses across the region. By most accounts however, they are unlikely to succeed.
As the Saudi-led coalition mulls a possible ground invasion of Yemen and the impotent Arab League announces plans for a regional military force, many will be remembering previously failed attempts by the Saudis to force the Houthis into submission.
In fact, during their last military incursions into Yemen in 2009 and 2010, the Saudis were quickly put on the defensive as Ansarallah fighters crossed the border capturing southern parts of the kingdom.
Today, it's not just the Houthis who are under attack but the entire Yemeni nation. And as has been proven by the peoples of the region in the past, foreign invasions and brutal military campaigns do not go unpunished.
