Protecting sovereignty.. brotherhood screaming with Houthi's tongue
English - Tuesday 13 September 2022 الساعة 08:54 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:
Simultaneously, the two cities of Marib and Taiz, which are under the control of the Brotherhood, witnessed activists close to the group announcing the launch of what they called the "popular campaign to protect sovereignty, restore the state and achieve peace."
Noting that the campaign that will be organized on social networking sites aims to announce a national document "to protect sovereignty, restore the state and end the coup under national principles (republic - unity - sovereignty)", and invite Yemenis to sign it.
The Brotherhood's media celebrated the campaign remarkably, to the extent of describing it as a "popular uprising" against the Arab coalition. The campaign was also praised by activists loyal to the Houthi group, for its compatibility with the group's rhetoric.
The term "sovereignty" is the single most frequently mentioned in the Houthi group's discourse to justify its war on Yemenis who rejected its coup against the state seven years ago.
The group portrays its war against the Yemenis as a defense of sovereignty and sees it as addressing what it describes as “external aggression targeting Yemen by the Arab coalition,” and this has become its most important tool for mobilizing fighters in its areas of control over the past years.
Therefore, the Brotherhood’s talk today about “protecting sovereignty” is an indirect acknowledgment of the Houthi narrative and its description of the war. Rather, it provides a free service for it to challenge the legitimacy of those who resist it.
Identification with this Houthi context makes the description of the status of the Presidential Council and Hadi’s authority before it as mere “traitors, accomplices with “external aggression against the sovereignty of Yemen”, and thus those who fight in their ranks against the Houthis, with the support of the coalition, become mere “mercenaries.”
This Brotherhood identification with the Houthi rhetoric is not surprising, given the hostile campaign by the Brotherhood's media machine during the past five years against the coalition, which amounted to describing it as an occupation.
However, what is new is that it comes with an escalation of calls from within the Brotherhood to announce the alliance with Al-Houthi in response to the massive loss of influence following the overthrow of Hadi’s authority and its loss on the ground in the southern regions at the expense of the forces affiliated with the Transitional Council.
