Friday, September 18, 2009

Saudi (and American) war in Yemen

Make no mistake about it: Saudi Arabia is heavily involved in the war in Yemen, just as it was back in the 1960s to exhaust Nasser and his army. Saudi Arabia has not recovered from the overthrow of the monarchy in Yemen, or from the establishment of a communist government in South Yemen. Saudi media (especially this mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat) are fully endorsing the war, and claiming that the people are blaming the Hawthis. Even when the government was shown to have killed scores of women and children, the Saudi media are ignoring government responsibility. And notice that the Yemeni government are now invoking Israeli arguments to justify the killing of civilians ("they are using civilians as human shields, argues the Yemeni (and Israeli) government).