Alsof
Jemen nog niet genoeg in de stront zit, een land waar dagelijks
honderden mensen sterven van honger, uitputting, cholera en difterie,
hebben de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten nu hun zinnen gezet op het
zuidelijk deel van Jemen, zodat ze één van de belangrijkste zeestraten ter wereld kunnen controleren……..

De
Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) hebben de in feite al illegale
regering van Jemen gedwongen te vertrekken……. ‘Illegaal’ daar Hadi, die
‘bij gebrek aan een tegenkandidaat’ in 2012 met meer dan 99% van de
stemmen (en dat waren er niet veel…) werd gekozen…… 

Hadi zelf spreekt wat betreft de actie van de VAE over een coup…….. De VAE maken gebruik van een groot aantal goed getrainde huurlingen uit Zuid-Amerika., je weet wel van die psychopaten voor wie mensenlevens evenveel waard zijn als die van vleeskuikens (die men kippen durft te noemen) uit de intensieve martelveehouderij……..

Opvallend
weer, de afwezigheid van dit bericht in de reguliere media, wat de
schrijver van het volgende artikel, Darius Shahtahmasebi wijt aan de
vele ‘conflicten’ waarmee de wereld wordt geplaagd, echter het zit een stuk
smeriger in elkaar dan hij denkt……. Immers ook voor de vreselijke
oorlog die de Saoedische coalitie onder regie en met hulp van de VS
voert tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, dat wordt verdedigd
door de Houthi rebellen, is amper aandacht in de reguliere media…. Sterker nog: als men al bericht is dat op een manier waarbij de Houthi rebellen worden afgeschilderd als de aanstichters van de huidige oorlog……. Intussen richt Saoedi-Arabië in Jemen de ene slachting na de andere aan……. 

Terwijl de Houthi’s de enige strijdgroep vormen, die zich verzette tegen
IS en Al Qaida, terreurgroepen die van Hadi toestemming kregen hun kampement op te
slaan in Jemen, waarna deze terreurgroepen tekeer gingen tegen de
sjiitische bevolking……. Dit was dan ook de reden voor de Houthi’s om Hadi te
verjagen, zeer tegen de zin van de reli-fascistische staat
Saoedi-Arabië die Hadi onder druk hebben gezet zijn claim op het
presidentschap te handhaven,  zodat hij hen te hulp kon roepen……

Daarnaast zijn de reguliere media in handen van grote investeerders dan wel miljonairs (en miljardairs), die handelsbelangen prefereren boven mensenrechtenschendingen dan wel oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd door landen waar veel te verdienen valt. Hetzelfde geldt voor de westerse publieke media, die afhankelijk zijn van subsidies van hun overheden, neoliberale overheden die alles behalve willen dat handelsbelangen met rijke en grote olie-exporteurs worden geschaad…….

Zoals gezegd de
reguliere westerse media hebben de oorlog van S-A tegen de Houthi’s
willens en wetens verdraait, waardoor de Houthi’s als terroristen
werden afgeschilderd en S-A als de goede partij wordt neergezet, een partij die orde op zaken
kwam stellen voor ‘de rechtmatige regering……’ Uiteraard hebben die media geen behoefte de
laatste staatsgreep van de VAE te melden, immers hoe moeten ze dan in godsnaam
nog hun leugens verklaren…..??? Je hoort nu dan ook bijvoorbeeld op Radio1 en BNR dat de ‘deskundigen’ stellen de toestand in Jemen te ingewikkeld te vinden, om nog uit te kunnen leggen aan de luisteraars……..

Lees hoe de wereld alweer op een geweldsexplosie afdrijft, die opgeteld bij de andere conflicten al bezig is met de eerste grote stuiptrekkingen van een nieuwe Wereldoorlog……..

UAE
Just Overthrew Yemen’s Government — and Nobody’s Talking About
It

February
20, 2018 at 4:49 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Between
a major regional confrontation on the horizon taking
place in Syria between
Israel, Syria, Russia, Iran, Turkey, and the United States and a
potential nuclear
standoff with
North Korea and China, it is no surprise that there are many
newsworthy stories that continue to go unnoticed.

One
such story is what is currently taking place in Yemen, and this time
around, it involves a country other than Saudi Arabia, the United
States, or the United Kingdom.

In
early 2015, Yemen’s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fled
his palace in Aden after
a takeover saw him unseated in a relatively bloodless manner
(bloodless, that is, compared what followed after Saudi Arabia’s
brutal intervention). Hadi was still recognized internationally as
president even though he technically had already been overthrown. (By
way of comparison, the United States insists that President Bashar
al-Assad in Syria is not the country’s legitimate ruler, even as he
continues to retain his office after around seven years of fighting).

Saudi
Arabia, in particular, was adamant that Hadi maintained the country’s
legitimate leader. Why? Because Hadi was the one who requested U.N.
intervention and Saudi assistance to battle the Houthi-led
insurgency. Without Hadi, their basis to bomb Yemen without a U.N.
mandate becomes even more dubious than it already has been.

However,
Saudi Arabia is not the only major player in Yemen. While the
corporate media — in tandem with the warmongering
government officials who
apparently have nothing better to do than to fabricate nonsense –
continue to blame Iran for the deteriorating situation in Yemen, the
truth remains that there is one other U.S. ally heavily involved in
destabilizing one of the poorest nations in the Arab world.

At
the end of January of this year, the Telegraph reported that
Yemen’s current government was preparing to flee Yemen entirely
while a separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
seized control in Aden and surrounded the presidential palace.
Yemen’s other major city, Sana’a, is more
or less under the control of
the Houthi rebels. Rather than wasting valuable time and resources
trying to take over Yemen’s former capital in the face of a
determined Houthi outfit, the UAE instead has plans of its own to
completely form their own country in the south of Yemen.

Last
year, southern insurgents backed by the UAE formed the Southern
Transitional Council with the aim of reforming South Yemen, a country
that existed until it united with the north in
1990. Accordingto Middle
East Eye,
these southern separatists have no interest at all in conquering
Sana’a, anyway.

According
to the Telegraph,
Yemen’s prime minister, Ahmed bin Dagher, pleaded with Saudi Arabia
to intervene on the government’s behalf. But no
such intervention came,
and Saudi Arabia has essentially enabled the separatists’ take
over.

When
Yemen’s former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by Houthi
forces near the end of last year, Anti-Media predicted this
to be a major pivotal moment for the war in Yemen. According
to Middle
East Eye,
it was this event that became the turning point in the UAE-Saudi
relationship in Yemen. UAE has no interest in fighting a losing
battle and has aligned itself with the party it views as being able
to get the job done and serve their interests in Yemen, “riding the
wave,” as Middle
East Eye described
it.

As
long as Hadi can retain his post as exiled president and legitimize
Saudi Arabia’s presence in the country, Saudi Arabia is not
expected to do much by way of confronting UAE’s regional ambitions.
This is even while the UAE would
not allow Hadi
to enter Aden in August of last year. Hadi himself views
the entire situation as
a “coup” and has called the separatists “occupiers,” not
liberators.

Right
now, as well as having large-scale ground troops in the country,
training tens of thousands of Yemeni troops and importing hundreds of
highly skilled mercenaries from South America, the UAE is
also operating
a network of torture prisons in
Southern Yemen. Thousands of terror suspects have allegedly
disappeared in these prisons.

As
poor and impoverished as Yemen is, its geostrategic importance should
not be overlooked. Yemen is situated in an important
transit route,
and by controlling strategically important trade routes, the UAE can
continue to develop and expand its fossil-fuel trade to Europe and
North America and become a global energy superpower.

According
to leaked
emails revealed
to Middle
East Eye last
year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman actually wants out of
the war in Yemen, and these latest developments only continue to cast
further doubt on Saudi Arabia’s strategy in its almost
three-year-long war. Saudi Arabia has shown that together with the
U.S., the U.K., and other regional players, it can devastate Yemen’s
infrastructure and civilian population, but it has absolutely nothing
to show by way of military victory.

This
has all taken place with very little media coverage. We have
witnessed Donald Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley,
berate Iran over its alleged and unproven activities in Yemen, and
even Saudi Arabia has received some negative
media coverage for its criminal role in this war.
Yet the UAE’s continued occupation of Yemen largely goes unnoticed.

The
UAE is the world’s fourth-largest arms importer after Saudi Arabia,
India, and China. The UAE also
infamously assisted in the aerial onslaught of
Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya in 2011 and continued
to wage a proxy war in
the country even after Gaddafi was overthrown.

No
one is talking about it, but the UAE has its sights on becoming a
major player in the region not just economically, but also
militarily.

One
reason why the UAE’s ever-expanding role in the Middle East
continues to go under-reported may be the vast amount
of influence the
current UAE ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Al Otaiba, wields. He is
reportedly “one
of the most powerful and well-connected men in Washington,”
as detailed by the Intercept.
Unsurprisingly, Otaiba is also allegedly the leading voice in
Washington for the war in Yemen.

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