March 26, 2016
By Ali al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan
Sanaa, Yemen — Tens of thousands protested in the Yemeni (click here) capital Saturday on the anniversary of a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition’s entrance into a civil war that has killed thousands and strengthened the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in this strategic Middle Eastern nation.
As coalition jets roared overhead, some demonstrators carried the Yemeni flag and chanted “End the siege!” while others vowed to “fight the Saudi aggression and its agents until their last man.”
The conflict in this nation, which straddles the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and borders key oil shipping routes in the Red Sea, pits the government, supported largely by Saudi-led airstrikes, against the rebel Houthis and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh....
That is the way it works in the middle east. The more killed, the more alliances form around terrorist regimes. No one is celebrating pluralism.
...On Saturday morning, many protesters carried pictures of Saleh, who gave a speech to his supporters condemning the Saudi intervention. But the former president also said that he would be open to discussions with the Saudis to bring the conflict to an end....
It looks like the United Nations' Security Council needs to take the movement seriously and begin talks to end the war. This might not ever present itself again. Power sharing governments are going to dominate the middle east. There are dearly few countries exclusively Sunni or Shia outside of Iran. Even Iran has a small population of Jewish (click here). There is an ethnic group in Iran called the Jewish National Committee, on Palestine Street.
I would expect the power sharing government would denounce terrorist groups.
By Ali al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan
Sanaa, Yemen — Tens of thousands protested in the Yemeni (click here) capital Saturday on the anniversary of a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition’s entrance into a civil war that has killed thousands and strengthened the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in this strategic Middle Eastern nation.
As coalition jets roared overhead, some demonstrators carried the Yemeni flag and chanted “End the siege!” while others vowed to “fight the Saudi aggression and its agents until their last man.”
The conflict in this nation, which straddles the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and borders key oil shipping routes in the Red Sea, pits the government, supported largely by Saudi-led airstrikes, against the rebel Houthis and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh....
That is the way it works in the middle east. The more killed, the more alliances form around terrorist regimes. No one is celebrating pluralism.
...On Saturday morning, many protesters carried pictures of Saleh, who gave a speech to his supporters condemning the Saudi intervention. But the former president also said that he would be open to discussions with the Saudis to bring the conflict to an end....
It looks like the United Nations' Security Council needs to take the movement seriously and begin talks to end the war. This might not ever present itself again. Power sharing governments are going to dominate the middle east. There are dearly few countries exclusively Sunni or Shia outside of Iran. Even Iran has a small population of Jewish (click here). There is an ethnic group in Iran called the Jewish National Committee, on Palestine Street.
I would expect the power sharing government would denounce terrorist groups.
