“THE HUMANITY OF
YEMEN”
How Washington
and its allies seek to cover up their interference and responsibilities in the
humanitarian crisis in Yemen by twisting the meaning of words and deeds
By Ali Al Najafi
For too long, attempts have been made to disguise the reality of certain
situations through contrived and deliberate descriptions with clearly biased
purposes. We saw it with Iraq between 1990 to 2003 with the victimization of
the Shiites to justify a military intervention against the Sunni government of
Saddam, or the hateful generalization that since 2001 extended to all Muslims
in the world when they were associated with "Islamic terrorism"
thereby justifying the interventions, torture and murders. That was a historical
scoundrel that tried to hide the sinister intelligence devices that we would
see with the farces of “Al Qaeda” with Sunni confessional orientation
(Takfirism and Wahhabism exported by Saudi Arabia) that ended up being
consecrated with the final hoax of the "Islamic State".
In 2010 and after months of a preliminary process of
preparation, NATO (like Washington's mask) together with its Arab allies of the
petromonarchies (Saudi Arabia and Qatar), carried out a vast operation of
agitation and creation of chaos over the entire world. North Africa and that
they wanted to recreate in Syria with a version that the western media showed
as “popular uprisings” and that they euphemistically christened the “Arab
Spring”. Although they still insist on that prefabricated story, it was very
clear that this was not such a thing and proof of this is the current situation
in Libya.
When Saudi Arabia launched its aggression on Yemen in
February 2015 neither Washington nor the UN made any recrimination for this
clearly illegal action that violates the sovereignty of a member state provided
for in Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. This silence? The clear
existing interest in this catastrophe being carried out but (as has been the
custom) hidden under the veils of political ambiguity and informational
deception. There is undoubtedly a Manichean vision of what is happening there
and even worse, in the case of the US, it is known that it has gradually taken
part in these actions that since then have caused the death and misfortune of
thousands of Yemenis.
As part of that intervention, Washington secretly
deployed its “proxies” resources made up of groups of mercenaries and elements
of ISIS trying to establish a counter-insurgency (dirty war) dynamic against
the Yemeni resistance that has been a failure.
The arguments to allow this true violation of
international law and especially of international humanitarian law are varied,
but they focus especially on the supposed influence of Iran on the Shiite
Houthis and on the political position of open resistance that they have adopted
against the attempts of Saudi invasion and its coalition of mercenaries backed
by the USA and Israel. As you can see, when it served to show the Shiites as
oppressed they demonized the Sunnis and in Yemen this is seen in reverse.
Despite the military superiority and strategic
collaboration that CENTCOM lends to the Saudi initiative, the resistance
presented by the Yemenis (especially the Houthis) has been such that their
efforts are currently stalled in a disastrous impasse. In an attempt to weaken
this resistance, the attackers reiterate the use of the same stealthy and
inhumane tactics that focus on collective punishment to generate despair and
chaos that by degrading the quality of life of civilians weakens the will of
the combatants.
The aberrations that have been seen in this aggression
are countless and inconceivable. As in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, there is
not the slightest respect for the lives of civilians who are often the target
of Saudi air strikes and the Emiratis who have used bombs with depleted Uranium
and nuclear tactical devices on Sana'a provided by those actors. (Although they
have tried to deny it)
But to the destruction by bombs and weapons is added
the misery that has been silently being created and exacerbated by the inhumane
blockades of food, basic necessities and medicines promoted by political
pressure from Washington and its Western allies that are (in addition to
instigated by Zionist pressure groups) shamefully supported by Riyadh and its
Gulf allies. The situation to which the Arab country is being subjected is so
inhumane that to the thousands of displaced already existing is added a
situation of famine in process that has already caused the death of thousands
of children and that cannot be hidden from world opinion and all this, due to a
trade blockade promoted from Washington and supported by the financial sectors
that control the market. As Ayman Gharaibeh, UNHCR Representative said “The
world cannot let Yemen fall into an abyss.”
In Afghanistan it was not possible to use the same
strategy as there the armed resistance is more organized and complex, fostered
by a multi-ethnic human composition spread over a wide and irregular terrain.
This did not prevent the CIA and its colleagues from deploying the “ISIS” ruse
to try to counter the influence of the Taliban. In Syria we are seeing how the
USA, in addition to its illegal intervention on the ground, tries to strangle
its economy through trade sanctions and product blockades that seek the same
purpose as in Yemen.
Washington has justified the implementation of these
inhumane measures by accusing the Houthi resistance of being a terrorist organization
linked to Iran, a terminology used over the years in a partial and tendentious
way that led to the aberrations of Guantánamo and hundreds of concentration
camps of the CIA around the world.
And this was propitiated throughout the Trump administration,
an isolationist who cut off several of the businesses linked to the
internationalists who, through military intervention, seek to create zones of
perpetual chaos that justify the armed presence of the United States. The
exception is understood as a part of its pro-Israeli policy of strengthening
the defense of the state by degrading its most bitter enemies in the region.
For now, the arrival of Biden and his corresponding advisers for the Middle
East does not mean that it stops this policy of humanitarian extortion.
So dire is the situation among the civilian population
that the same United Nations representative Martin Griffiths called on the US
to review its determination to label the Houthi resistance as “terrorists.” A
similar appeal was made by the Director of the World Food Program David
Beasley, focusing on the suffering caused by these policies on the mass of the
population aimed at obtaining a clearly extortionate consent.
Undoubtedly, beyond the domestic demonstrations of the
structural problems that infect American democracy and that affect the lives,
liberties and equal treatment of all its citizens, there is in the aspect of
how its political and military representatives see the rest of the world, the
explanation of a notable disregard for the human life of others based on a
supposed belief of moral and political superiority that authorizes them to
unleash wars and create chaos in the name of a democracy that they themselves
do not practice; without a doubt, it is the irreverent behavior of a criminal
elite of global reach.
