TheAltWorld Moral imperative: Recognise Yemen and Palestine
Tim Anderson argues that recognizing the struggles of the Yemeni and Palestinian peoples is a moral obligation for independent nations, calling for international support against Western-backed oppression.
Just shedding tears for those undergoing tremendous humanitarian crises is meaningless unless we also recognize and support those peoples. For this reason, there is a moral imperative to recognize the Yemeni and Palestinian people, closely linked Arab and Muslim peoples who have struggled for decades against outside plans to divide, exterminate and steal their lands and resources.
This moral imperative is an obligation on the free peoples of the world, those with a conscience, and particularly on large independent nations – like Russia, China, Venezuela and Iran – to recognize and support the struggles of the Yemeni and Palestinian peoples, abandoned and oppressed for decades, and whom the imperial powers claim do not exist, are illegitimate people or “terrorists”, even as they defend their lands and communities from imperial terrorism.
The Yemeni people launched a war of independence against the US and its proxies, mainly Arab monarchies from the Persian Gulf, in a dirty war which persisted for many years, but which the Yemeni people won, only to be abused as “Houthi rebels” by the UN Security Council, and held under an extensive UN backed blockade, leading to what was called, before the Gaza genocide, “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”
These Yemenis are not simply “rebels” they constitute the only legitimate government in Yemen for the past decade. This Ansar Allah-led coalition government, based in Sanaa, has been managing a state since 2015 for more than 70% of the population, while the “recognized” regime is a comprador exile group based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Just as the people of Venezuela cannot tolerate an outside appointed, self-proclaimed “president” like Juan Guaido or Edmundo Gonzalez so the Yemeni people cannot be expected to accept an exile regime based in Saudi Arabia as their government.
The international community knows little of the Yemeni people. Better known are the Palestinian people, who have waged an eight-decade struggle against the Israeli settler colonial regime, have been subject to ethnic cleansing, periodic massacres and, over the past two years, to a genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
The world sat back and watched Gaza in horror, but few did anything, except for the Yemeni people and the Hezbollah-led resistance in Lebanon. The Yemeni people confronted the Israeli criminals directly, blocking shipping to prevent supply to the genocidal regime, in accordance with their obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Which other state complied with its obligations under the Genocide Convention?
The free peoples of the world should join with the Yemeni and the Palestinian people and not side with the US and Israeli criminals. We should also expose the Israeli crimes against the people of Yemen and Palestine, as well as the Anglo-American providers of bombs and other weapons used to slaughter those peoples.
We are not powerless, we can do something by recognizing the Sanaa government in Yemen and recognizing a Single Democratic State in Palestine, not the ridiculous “two-state” illusion that has been held out for so many years. Apartheid in Palestine must be dismantled, that is an obligation under international law, as lawyers Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley pointed out in a report for the UN, years ago.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/moral-imperative–recognise-yemen-and-palestine
Guy St Hilaire
Thank you Tim .If the world is divided between good and evil , you are truly on the good and proper side . I take solace in knowing that it is indeed because of ignorance ,the problem is that it is often willful ignorance .
lambedor de bunda
The YAF have now retaliated twice to the US/UK attacks.
Yemeni Forces Strike US Carrier Twice in 24 Hours
Sources: Al Mayedin, Al Manar and PressTV
“The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced that they have successfully targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman not once, but twice within a 24-hour period in the northern Red Sea.”
“This comes just days after Yemeni Ansar Allah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned that any continued US strikes on Yemen would prompt a “broad and comprehensive response” from his forces. True to his word, Saree declared that the YAF will move forward with implementing retaliation.”
They, contrary to Hezbollah, will hopefully keep to their words and keep the naval blockade against the zionist entity going.
“He reaffirmed Yemen’s commitment to enforcing a naval blockade on the Zionist entity, preventing its ships from navigating in the declared operational zone until humanitarian aid and essential supplies are delivered to Gaza.
“This US aggression will only strengthen Yemen’s resolve, faith, and determination,” he asserted.
Now, the “Western-backed oppression” doesn’t really come from the West. Most western populations are pro-Palestine and anti-genocides.
We al know who the likes of Trump, Starmer, Macron or Merz/Scholz serve: their Jewish masters.
The attack on Yemen is done by lackeys like Trump but behind it are the zionists who control him and his European servants.
Russia should and could have stopped the israelis in their tracks if they had retaliated when they were bombing Syria and Putin could also have stopped the terrorist group HTS to seize Syria if he had let his generals crushed them
He didn’t. Today he is negotiating with Trump for a mock ‘ceasefire’ in Ukraine that will be used by the same criminals who serve israel to keep the war going and prepare the next attack on Russia.
These people are not the “west”, they are Satan’s worshipers, they are zionist puppets and western populations are their first victims.
This is where western populations and ME populations must ally to get rid of the criminals who are waging these wars.