Non-stop
hypocrisy by the Western media and Washington's hawks
Situation
in Yemen is out of control. The continuous blockade of humanitarian
aid by the brutal Saudi regime leads to one of the worst humanitarian
crises for decades.
Bettina
Luescher of the World Food Programme (WFP), reported that it's
obviously clear that Yemen is in the grips of the world's biggest
hunger crisis. It is really the biggest crisis that we have in the
moment anywhere in the world. People who are severely food insecure,
approximately 8.4 million. Acutely malnourished children, six months
to five years, around 1.8 million. Acutely malnourished pregnant or
nursing women, around 1.1 million. This is a nightmare that is
happening right now.
The
enormous hypocrisy of the Western mainstream media is outrageous.
They continuously demonize the Venezuelan government, avoiding to
record the right-wing opposition atrocities and the fact that
Venezuela has been suffered from a fierce economic war launched by
the US. They speak about a humanitarian crisis there, despite that,
according to a recent UN inspection, there
is no 'humanitarian crisis' in the country.
Yet,
they avoid, as much as they can, to refer to the humanitarian
disaster in Yemen, caused by the brutal Saudi regime and its allies -
that is the US and other authoritarian states of the region. We have
to assume that this happens also because the US and the UK are the
biggest arms sellers to Saudi Arabia.
So,
naturally, the enormous hypocrisy of the US officials is equally
outrageous.
As Aaron
Maté of the Real
News points out, recently, Obama administration
officials expressed some regret for what they helped start back in
March 2015. Samantha Power, the former US Ambassador to the UN is
among those to come out and say "We made a mistake in supporting
the Saudi-led war."
Shireen
Al-Adeimi, born in Yemen and lived in the United States for 10 years,
states:
It's a
very hypocritical stance, because these numbers were just as dire
when Obama was under control. Maybe we didn't hear about them as
much, but people were dying. People were dying of cholera, of
violence, and the Saudis were committing air strike after air strike
after air strike. Human rights organizations were calling for a halt
to US support right from the beginning. It's a bit hypocritical for
Obama administrators to now finally say, "Oh, okay, now that
this is a Trump war on Yemen, now we're against it."
But
nonetheless, we need lawmakers in the Senate and in the House,
lawmakers such as Chris Murphy, who have been calling adamantly for
US to stop its support of Saudi Arabia military. That's the best hope
that we, as Yemenis, have.
The US
Army recently just posted on their Twitter page the extent of their
support to the Saudi military and it's really astonishing. This
includes training, not only refueling airplanes midair, but also
repairing those aircrafts and vehicles when they've been damaged in
the war, updating them, providing the soldiers with basic training
all the way to very sophisticated training.
The US
is very heavily involved in the war on Yemen by helping the Saudis.
Without them, the Saudis aren't going to be able to continue to wage
this war much longer.
Of
course, we know, then, there are also weapon shipments that are
ongoing and have increased under Trump's administration. The Saudis
are very much reliant on US support and that's what needs to stop if
we want to see an end to this war.
Real
progressives like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard,
should join forces immediately with voices like Murphy to end, as
soon as possible, any US aid to the Saudi regime and open the road to
the UN to provide direct humanitarian aid to the people of Yemen.
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