Politician: Washington is not interested in stopping the war in Yemen, and the battles will return more fiercely
English - Monday 18 July 2022 الساعة 04:16 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
Yemeni political analyst Mahmoud Al-Taher believes that the United States is not interested in stopping the war in Yemen, commenting on President Joe Biden's visit two days ago to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, which hosted an Arab-American summit in which the UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait participated.
Al-Taher said that the war in his country did not receive the American attention it deserves to address the real causes of the war’s motives and ways to end it, and that all that the American vision implied was the extension of the truce that Al-Houthi did not abide by for the past three months.
Al-Taher, in statements to the Asharq Al-Awsat International newspaper, believes that Washington's insistence and demand to talk about the armistice side and its extension indicates that it is not interested in stopping the war in Yemen, but rather as a means of support for Biden and his party in the renewal midterm elections in America; Biden's party is threatened with losing a majority in Congress after it failed in all axes, from confronting Russia and China, and internally in America.
At the Jeddah summit, Washington was satisfied with emphasizing the extension of the humanitarian truce sponsored by the United Nations, and the need for the Houthi militias to implement their obligations represented by lifting the siege on Taiz and opening crossings and roads, which is rejected by Iran's arm since the start of the truce on the second of last April.
Al-Taher says in this regard, "Biden has no promise left that he can promote as an achievement and success except to stop the war in Yemen with talk and not with action, and as soon as the elections end next November, and after that I expect the war to flare up again, and its ferocity will be greater than before."
Al-Taher referred to the Houthis' reaction to the Jeddah summit, and said, "Houthi's response was clear in this matter. The request to extend the truce does not concern them, and they also implicitly announced their refusal to extend the truce, which means that Biden's policy toward the Houthi militias has not changed, and he could have been Firm in this, which is that the alternative to Houthi not complying with the truce is to return the group to the list of terrorism, and work to uproot it, as a kind of threat, to force it to engage in talks and implement its commitments regarding the truce.
