Tag Archives: Yemen
Listen – Iran: Between conflict and stagnation
Mohamed El-Doufani writes:
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Listen: “The Iranian threat” – real or imagined?
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes
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Saudis’ Yemeni headache won’t go away if and when the guns fall silent
James Dorsey says once the Saudi war on Yemen ends, the risk is of the emergence of a generation that has nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose – one that is likely to deeply resent what it perceives Saudi Arabia has done to its country. Read more [...]
Are Yemeni kids, like Palestinian kids, children of a lesser God?
Stuart Littlewood compares the callous disregard shown by Saudi Arabia and its allies towards civilian in Yemen with that shown by Israel towards the Palestinians, and laments the indifference of the UK government, which backs both regimes. Read more [...]
Who loves ya, Saudi?
Stuart Littlewood highlights the sick ties that bind Britain to Saudi Arabia and are most visibly represented by its multibillion pounds arms exports to the Al Saud family kingdom – arms used to kill and maim innocent civilians in Yemen. Read more [...]
Whither Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s “moderate” Islam?
James Dorsey says Prince Muhammad has yet to show that fighting terrorism “involves in practice rather than words the countering of an ultra-conservative ideology that breeds intolerance, fosters anti-pluralism and potentially creates breeding grounds for radicalism”. Read more [...]
Salafi mission calls into question Saudi concept of moderation and policy in Yemen
James Dorsey questions whether Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad’s proclaimed quest to “return” to “moderate islam” includes subscribing to concepts of tolerance and pluralism which at present seems unlikely. Read more [...]
Signs of hope in the Middle East? Don’t hold your breath
James Dorsey explains why there should be no reason for optimism that violence and instability in the Middle East, whether in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen or the Gulf states, will come to an end anytime soon. Read more [...]
Message from UK High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis (and never mind the slaughter in Yemen)
Stuart Littlewood examines Britain’s complicity in the war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, and the role of notorious Israeli stooge Liam Fox, the UK’s secretary of state for international trade, in this. Read more [...]
Defeating the Islamic State group: A war mired in contradictions
James Dorsey says US tolerance of Saudi support for Al-Qaeda in Yemen, Syria and Iraq may allow for short-term gains against the Islamic State group but will only create greater jihadist problems down the road. Read more [...]
