Al Jazeera Discovers Saudi-UAE Disagreement in Yemen War, Not Its Horrors
The Al Jazeera piece, penned by Khaled Al-Hammadi, discusses the 'impact' of Saudi-UAE tensions on Yemen's 'recognised government,' following a Saudi strike on a Yemeni port. One might call it a rather sterile framing for a conflict that the UN has repeatedly labeled the world's worst humanitarian crisis. While they debate who gets to carve up what, the inconvenient truth, deliberately omitted, is
that this entire 'fallout' stems from a collective effort that has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, including ports, since 2015. We are told about 'tensions' between partners, as if they are squabbling over a business deal, not a nation they have jointly bombed into starvation for nearly a decade. The 'recognised government' Al Jazeera refers to is the same one the Saudi-UAE
coalition reinstated through a brutal siege and indiscriminate bombing, with crucial logistical and military support from the US and UK. Perhaps Al Jazeera could consider reporting on the 400,000 Yemenis dead from preventable causes, the 17 million facing acute food insecurity, or the children whose growth has been permanently stunted, instead of playing geopolitical puppet theater.