Al-Sufi: The North needs someone to express its "citizens".
English - Sunday 06 March 2022 الساعة 06:22 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
The journalist and political researcher on Yemeni affairs, Nabil Al-Sufi, said that the crisis in Yemen is not measured in years, explaining that Yemen used to live very long periods of war, and he said that there may be Yemeni parties who benefit from the prolongation of the war and the fear of the end of the war posing a danger to them, even for the parties dominant, such as the Houthi militia.
He stressed that had it not been for Iranian evil, Yemen would not have reached the situation it is currently in, explaining that Iran seized the opportunity of the fall of the Republic of Yemen as a system, after it was cracked in 2012, for goals related to it, its agenda and its ideology. He said: Al-Houthi could have become a party to the national transformation had it not been for the Iranian role, which diverted the course of everything with the signs of the state's weakness in 2011.
Regarding the northern issue, al-Sufi said, their main problem is fragmentation and their preoccupation with talking about the south, and he explained this because the power elite is still there as personalities, visions and ideas.
He said that these elites had ended before 2011, and instead of renewing the state, as happened in Egypt, the Yemeni state fell into the visions of the expired parties and parties that were partners in governance and then turned into a partner in the revolution.
He criticized the centralization of the Republic of Yemen, which he said "has reduced democracy, and returned regionalism to the extent that many regions of the north are not known to much until this moment, and socially condemned, even though this condemnation is an imam influence."
He said that when al-Houthi seized the center and the republic fell, and with the militias taking over the state, there was no incubator for the state, criticizing all parties' neglect of the regions, including the parties, represented by neglecting the western coast, saying, "Mocha and Bab al-Mandab are devoid of everything compared to Sana'a."
He pointed out that the regions benefited the south, as it was a very important storehouse for preserving the southern identity, and he gave the example of Al-Dhalea as a main storehouse of struggle for the south, as it does not see itself outside the south, and in Shabwa, the central slogan stream in the name of “unity” had a negative impact that disrupted the governorate and facilitated the Houthi ingestion of areas Including an introduction.” On the contrary, “the south attended with all its currents, so it liberated Shabwa and kept its independent character at the same time,” saying: “The south does not cancel its territorial components, and these areas find themselves only in the context of their south,” which is a civilized definition of regionalism in the present time.
Al-Sufi added, the speech is painful, but the northern elites are more unanimous against the south, as elites and not as citizens, and they are less tense compared to the presence of the Houthi militia.
He stressed that al-Houthi threatens the north, because the northern elites have forgotten terrorism and terrorist crimes in the north, and are preoccupied with talking about the south.
He said that the Republic of Yemen and unity no longer existed except as a slogan for war after the Houthis seized its heart, referring to the governorate of Sanaa, and the Houthis separated from the religious identity and the Arab and Yemeni surroundings, and despite that people do not consider the Houthis a separatist.
He explained that the republic is a title only that covers the war of Yemenis against the Houthis, and there is no longer a republic, nor unity nor state.
Al-Sufi does not see a horizon, unfortunately, that indicates the end of the war in Yemen, justifying this that the elites of the north are a closed bloc, and they either live in conflict with the south or live their illusions in the struggle against the Arab coalition, and fight battles against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, stressing that the crisis may be prolonged.
He explained that the liberation of the north needs either an excessive military force or a social force, biased towards the second option, calling for the establishment of a northern party that recognizes that the northern crisis needs a holder to manage and confront the situation in the north, not legitimacy. Stressing that legitimacy is lost in the North after it forgot it, and it only means it to receive their exorbitant salaries abroad, it needs a northern voice that creates a social carrier that expresses their social, political and military cause.
