Viewpoint
Viewpoint
By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
We are indeed living in a bizarre world, where facts and realities have lost their meaning, where truth has been eclipsed by falsity, where virtues have given way to vices, where moral ethics have been replaced by immorality, and where oppressors are lauded while the oppressed are denounced for defending themselves.
The latest example in this regard was Thursday’s presidential statement of the UN Security Council, which not only labeled Yemen’s Ansarallah defenders of their aggressed homeland a "rebels” and "condemned” their right to fire missiles in self-defence at the aggressors, but defying all logic, praised Saudi Arabia for what it called "humanitarian efforts” despite the fact that the regime in Riyadh has over the past three years massacred almost twenty thousand Yemeni men, women and children with its relentless bombing to dust of the whole infrastructure of the Arab world’s poorest country, rendering millions homeless and causing famine and epidemics.
One thought the Security Council of the so-called World Body has the duty to safeguard and promote security worldwide, but whatever it does is the opposite. It openly sides with the aggressors for trampling of human rights, while denouncing the right of self-defence of the aggressed.
It is clear to everybody that Saudi Arabia has no right to wage a war on Yemen and impose a total air, sea, and land blockade of the whole country, yet this state terrorism of the Wahhabi regime in Riyadh not only goes unpunished, but is blatantly backed by the US, the UK, and western Europe, which cry hoarse over the firing of a few missiles in self-defence by the Ansarallah and accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran of supplying weapons to the besieged Yemenis.
It is really mind-boggling. How can Iran send weapons to a country not sharing any borders with it and under total blockade of the navies, armies and air forces of the aggressor states and their allies?
This is not just the height of hypocrisy but sheer cowardice on the part of all those waging military and economic wars against the people of Yemen, who according to them should have no means of self-defence and should stand totally unarmed before the terrible onslaught of the aggressors.
At least the aggressors of the past, whether in Europe or amongst the Arabs, had some sense of chivalry in the olden days, and would throw a sword or a spear to their defencless opponents before attacking them, so that their own claim to gallantry was not tainted.
The dastards of our days have no such pretensions to chivalry, if not they would have long lifted the blockade of Yemen.
No, not for allowing free flow of weaponry from Iran to test whose weapons have the cutting edge technology to triumph on the battlefield, but to at least allow medical and relief aid to reach the beleaguered millions.
As said earlier, the world has become a bizarre place, devoid of any values, as is also clear by Thursday’s statement of "mad dog” Jim Mattis, the War Secretary of the US, who unethically defended his regime’s military support to the Saudi Arabian-led coalition forces in Yemen and personally appealed to the few American Senators who are considering whether to end Washington’s involvement in the devastating conflict, not to do so.
In such a situation, the people of Yemen have no other choice but to continue their self-defence in a manly manner by using whatever weapons they have in their armoury, until the aggressors unable to match their resolve on the battlefield, come to the negotiating table to word out a solution.
We are indeed living in a bizarre world, where facts and realities have lost their meaning, where truth has been eclipsed by falsity, where virtues have given way to vices, where moral ethics have been replaced by immorality, and where oppressors are lauded while the oppressed are denounced for defending themselves.
The latest example in this regard was Thursday’s presidential statement of the UN Security Council, which not only labeled Yemen’s Ansarallah defenders of their aggressed homeland a "rebels” and "condemned” their right to fire missiles in self-defence at the aggressors, but defying all logic, praised Saudi Arabia for what it called "humanitarian efforts” despite the fact that the regime in Riyadh has over the past three years massacred almost twenty thousand Yemeni men, women and children with its relentless bombing to dust of the whole infrastructure of the Arab world’s poorest country, rendering millions homeless and causing famine and epidemics.
One thought the Security Council of the so-called World Body has the duty to safeguard and promote security worldwide, but whatever it does is the opposite. It openly sides with the aggressors for trampling of human rights, while denouncing the right of self-defence of the aggressed.
It is clear to everybody that Saudi Arabia has no right to wage a war on Yemen and impose a total air, sea, and land blockade of the whole country, yet this state terrorism of the Wahhabi regime in Riyadh not only goes unpunished, but is blatantly backed by the US, the UK, and western Europe, which cry hoarse over the firing of a few missiles in self-defence by the Ansarallah and accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran of supplying weapons to the besieged Yemenis.
It is really mind-boggling. How can Iran send weapons to a country not sharing any borders with it and under total blockade of the navies, armies and air forces of the aggressor states and their allies?
This is not just the height of hypocrisy but sheer cowardice on the part of all those waging military and economic wars against the people of Yemen, who according to them should have no means of self-defence and should stand totally unarmed before the terrible onslaught of the aggressors.
At least the aggressors of the past, whether in Europe or amongst the Arabs, had some sense of chivalry in the olden days, and would throw a sword or a spear to their defencless opponents before attacking them, so that their own claim to gallantry was not tainted.
The dastards of our days have no such pretensions to chivalry, if not they would have long lifted the blockade of Yemen.
No, not for allowing free flow of weaponry from Iran to test whose weapons have the cutting edge technology to triumph on the battlefield, but to at least allow medical and relief aid to reach the beleaguered millions.
As said earlier, the world has become a bizarre place, devoid of any values, as is also clear by Thursday’s statement of "mad dog” Jim Mattis, the War Secretary of the US, who unethically defended his regime’s military support to the Saudi Arabian-led coalition forces in Yemen and personally appealed to the few American Senators who are considering whether to end Washington’s involvement in the devastating conflict, not to do so.
In such a situation, the people of Yemen have no other choice but to continue their self-defence in a manly manner by using whatever weapons they have in their armoury, until the aggressors unable to match their resolve on the battlefield, come to the negotiating table to word out a solution.