Yemen
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Looks like another proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. I note a reluctance of the "West" to condemn the military intervention of one of the worlds most despotic dictatorships. They were silent when Saudi tanks rolled into Bahrain to silence the Sh'ite majority there, and they seem subdued again when aircraft attact a Sh'ite sect in Yemen that has assumed control of most of the country.
What, however, i find interesting is the position of the Palestinian politicians who have come out in support of this Saudi attack on the Houthis, not just the Palestinian Authority under Abbas but also those supposed radicals in Hamas support the deposed President Hadi.
I think this is another example of why we should not support an independent Palestinian state and expect it to act any different from those others in the region.
You may be interested to now that according to CNN news ajency Islamic State make two million a week from Hijacked oil in Iraq and I believe David Dundales recent articles in Israel regarding "why stealths dont hit the target".
raj wrote:I believe David Dundales recent articles in Israel regarding "why stealths dont hit the target".No doubt because this is just another Dundale sock puppet account..
"Perhaps half of the Saudi army is of Yemeni tribal origin. Saudi soldiers are intimately – through their own families – involved in Yemen, and the Yemen revolution is a stab in the guts of the Saudi royal family. ………………Unprecedented in modern Arab history, a Sunni Muslim coalition of 10 nations – including non-Arab Pakistan – has attacked another Arab nation. The Sunnis and the Shia of the Middle East are now at war with each other in Iraq, in Syria and Yemen. Pakistan is a nuclear power. The armies of Bahrain and the Gulf states include Pakistani soldiers. Pakistanis were among the dead in the first great battle against Iraqi troops in the 1991 Gulf War. ……………The Americans do not know what to do. They cannot give the Saudis direct military assistance – their nuclear talks with Iran are more important – and so their soft verbal support for King Salman is supposed to mollify their Sunni allies and avoid antagonising the Iranians. But the closer a nuclear deal comes between the US and Iran, the more forcefully their partners in the Arab world will push their cards. What provoked the Saudis into their extraordinary adventure in Yemen was not the approach of Houthis towards Aden but the approach of US-Iranian agreement at Lausanne."Robert Fisk, The Independent, 27/03/2015:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-battle-for-the-middle-easts-future-begins-in-yemen-as-saudi-arabia-jumps-into-the-abyss-10140145.html
I know it all too easy to drop links onto threads but this guy writes some interesting and informed stuff. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41505.htm Another little discussed fact apparently is that there isn’t such a clear distinction between ‘Yemeni’s’ and ‘Saudi’s’ eg the Bin Laden family; and that apparently a significant proportion of the ‘Saudi’ Armed forces or boots on the ground ‘grunts’ are ‘cultural Yemeni’s’; and may be not all that ‘reliable’. It is complex I think but may be falling into the American 1960’s ‘Vietnam’ domino theory of ‘foreign relations’. I think this Shia-Sunni thing is mostly a facade or smoke screen and it is more political; as well as being geopolitical.
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