Airstrikes kill 70 people and knock out internet in Yemen

[Duufaan]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/middleeast/yemen-detention-strike-internet-outage-intl/index.html

 

No protest, no human right issue. CNN is reporting it but that is it. There are different standard between the Tigray and Yemen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[galbeedi]

Duufaan,

A lot has changed in the middle east for the last few months.The UAE had not only seen the light, but had made a huge 180 in its foreign policy toward the whole region. For years, we, Somalis certainly loved to hate UAE for their destructive actions in our region and beyond. THey used proxy forces and terrorists to stop Turkey to help Somalia, going even further to bomb the Turkish crew building the Mogadishu--Afgooye road killing the engineers. They tried to grab Somali public assets like ports for pennies like a vulture capitalists.

We hated their guts, but one has to admire the way this little nation has shaped the entire middle east, north Africa and the Horn of Africa for the last decade. They were hell bent to stop any democratic movements in the entire Arab and Muslim world in the region. THey deposed Mursi, Khadaffi and almost toppled Erdogan. 

They haven't stopped there until  in 2017 when  they got the crown jewel of power. They did the unthinkable by penetrating the most powerful house of power in the world--The White House. Trump and his son in law played to the tunes of the Emirates. They fired foreign secretary Tilerson by refusing their plans to invade and overthrow the Qatari Amir, Thani.THey influenced every aspect of American policy in the middle east.

Their strategy in the region along the Saudis, the gulf, Israel and others who wanted to reduce the Iranian proxy wars in the region had failed thanks to the election of Joe Biden. 

The UAE had made diplomatic relations with Israel and probably had found out some of the policies of the United States to be detrimental to the gulf and the region. While America has been threatening Iran for the last 30 years, including the threat to bomb their nuclear facility and military installations, the opposite had happened. The American actions or inactions had not only strengthened Iran, it made Iran the dominant power in the region.

The Shia sectarian policy of Iran targeted Arab dictators as long as they were Sunni. While cheering the demise of Husni Mubaarak, Saddam and Khadaffi, they fought to the death to protect Shia tyrants like Assad of Syria and Ali A. Salah of Yemen. THey dispatched Shia fighters from HisbuAllah and from Asia all the way from Afghanistan and Pakistan to save the bloodthirsty dictator of Syria who murdered half million people. They want to keep a Shia minority in the power who are less than 15% in Syria, and are helping the Houties to threaten both Saudi Arabia and UAE. While Trump put the Houties on the terrorists list, president Biden took of the list from the Houties. What that tells you? If this were Sunni Arabs trying to hold power after overthrowing the legitimate government, they would have been designated as terrorists in a New York minute.

The democratic party is helping Iran while destabilizing Turkey through Kurds terrorists and allowing the siege of Saudi Arabia by the Houties. I think the UAE have seen the light and want to change course. Their rapprochement to Sunni power Turkey, their abandonment of general Hifter in lIbya is a great reset. The only victims of the war on terror were Sunnis. 

Rather  than to insist on failed policy, the Emirates had shown to be mature enough to regroup. It isn't far fetched for Somalia to build close relations with them after the elections are over. Personally, I don't see any benefits coming from both Qatar and UAE in terms of nation building and infrastructure. 

On the other hand,  it is a sad even to see the casualty of the Yemeni victims, especially an armed civilians, but I hope Iran and those who back them could see how aerial bombing is devastating to civilians which is happening in Syria as we speak. The Houties who are less than 35% of Yemen couldn't keep power like those in Syria. They must make a deal and leave behind their sectarian Shia quest for power.

THese Houties might even have a wet dreams of taking Makkah, God forbid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Arafaat]

54 minutes ago, galbeedi said:

If this were Sunni Arabs trying to hold power after overthrowing the legitimate government, they would have been designated as terrorists in a New York minute.

??? Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia?

First of all, Your analysis couldn’t be more wrong. The Middle-East conflict isn’t about religion, it’s about power. 

Second, stick to the topic of the discussion. The double standards in media coverage and international attention given to the conflicts in Ethiopia and Yemen. 

 

[galbeedi]

22 hours ago, Arafaat said:

? Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia?

I could be wrong with my analysis, but when I say overthrowing government by popular uprising, I don't mean despots taking over the power like Egypt and Sudan. Before ISIS showed up in 2014 in Iraq, the Syrian opposition was a popular revolution by the people, yet, a soon as they were close to overthrow the despot, they were branded as " Al qaeda" affiliates or terrorists. When was the last time you seen armed Sunni groups taking power by gun after deposing a dictator? 

THey are not even allowed to win by the ballot box let alone by a gun. The gulf is guilty by unleashing the Wahabis, but the Iranians have also blood in their hands. THe Iranian Mullahs are using religion to unleash their sectarian wars in the region. Religion is a tool to attain power in the region. Furthermore, the Wahhabis and Iran are the main protagonists who are serving those who have unleashed the chaos theory to destroy many MUslim nations. Imagine , Al-shabaab is going to Lamu coast of Kenya to destroy infrastructure than hurt a single Ethiopian soldier for all these years. We need to understand the big picture in order to defeat this mence.

22 hours ago, Arafaat said:

Second, stick to the topic of the discussion. The double standards in media coverage and international attention given to the conflicts in Ethiopia and Yemen. 

Of course. THe TPLF were a colonial post in the horn of Africa and their sponsors were in disinformation campaign to bring them back to power, but they misread the public opinions of the Ethiopian people.