The Debacle in Hodeidah

Date: 16 November 2018 - 21:22

News ID: ۵۹۷۱۶

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Defeated, disgraced and disillusioned, despite the death and destruction they wreaked upon civilians for days on end, the dastardly duo of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in a face saving move to avoid further humility, have declared halt to their aggression on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.
They proffer the excuse that they want to give peace a chance to prevail.
Really! Do Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and their accomplices in state terrorism against the people of Yemen, believe in peace?
If they were peace-loving, these totalitarian, foreign-appointed regimes, which do not represent the people they rule in the spurious states created for them by the British colonialists, would never have imposed this devastating war on Yemen or tried to interfere in the affairs of the only country of the Arabian Peninsula with a democratic system of government, which like all republics has its share of internal differences.
If they had any concern for the peace, security, and welfare of the Yemenis (Arab Muslims like them), they would not have sadistically watched with glee the sufferings of the famine and disease-stricken people – the result of indiscriminate bombing of the infrastructure, coupled with the land, sea and air blockade of the country.
If Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and their godfathers, the US and Britain, have any iota of conscience they will admit their their-and-a-half-year blunder and leave Yemen alone to the resolve of its people to peacefully settle whatever differences they have amongst themselves.
The truth of the matter is that the people of Yemen, especially those rallying under the banner of the popular Ansarallah Movement to safeguard the integrity and independence of the country, have proved more than a match for the well-equipped but cowardly aggressors.
It is clear to the whole world that for the past year all attempts to occupy Hodeidah by the superpower-supported Saudis and Emiratis, who largely use some poor and misled sections of the people of Yemen as cannon fodder, rather than risk the life of their own citizens, have ended in defeat and failure.
They are stuck in a quagmire and desperately want to extricate themselves either through the subterfuge of so-called peace talks with the Ansarallah in the hope of hoodwinking at the negotiating table, or to continue to dole out a handful of dollars to some of the tribes of southern Yemen, as well as the takfiri terrorists being nurtured by Riyadh, to be sacrificial goats for them on the warfronts.
Every trick the aggressors have tried, such as the brutal bombing of residential areas, marketplaces, schools, etc., in a bid to break the resolve of the defenders have come to a naught.
That is the reason they are trying to impose a so-called peace on the Yemenis, who fortunately have the intellect to understand that an imposed peace is worse than an imposed war.
So the onus is now on the UN, which, if it is really an impartial world body, should first and foremost stop calling the Ansarallah as ‘Houthi rebels’ and start referring to the Saudis and Emiratis as aggressors and war criminals.
It should make clear that any peace talks should be between the Yemeni factions, without the presence of any outside parties at such talks, including the Saudis and the Emiratis, who ought to pay war indemnity to the people of Yemen in hundreds of billions of dollars.
They only can the crisis in Yemen will be resolved and the people of that land saved from the famine and diseases.
Moreover, the UN should look into the grievances of the people of Yemen, and force Riyadh to return the provinces of Najran, Asir and Jizan, which Abdul-Aziz had seized from Yemen in 1934 with British help, shortly after he had been gifted with the spurious state called Saudi Arabia.
Anything short of these realities will be nothing but continuation of the stalemate that will eventually end with the end of Saudi Arabia, which neither Britain nor the US can avert.