Al Jazeera Discovers Yemen is Still Fragmented, After Years of Bombing
Al Jazeera's analysis points to the Southern Transitional Council's (STC) expansion in Hadramout and al-Mahra, framing it as a risk to 'economic and political instability.' What's missing from this insightful observation? The rather glaring detail that the STC is backed, armed, and funded by the UAE, a key partner in the Saudi-led coalition that has bombed Yemen since 2015. This 'fragmentation'
isn't some organic development; it's the direct result of foreign powers carving up the country, creating and empowering proxies for their own strategic gain. (Funny how 'separatist' sounds so much more benign than 'UAE-funded proxy force'). One might wonder at what point these intricate analyses will acknowledge that Yemen's instability isn't an inherent quality, but a manufactured crisis,
meticulously engineered by external actors. When Al Jazeera talks about 'risking further economic instability,' do they recall the Saudi blockade that choked off food and medicine for years? Or perhaps the systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure? Blaming Yemen's 'fragmentation' without naming the fragmented is like blaming a broken vase on gravity, while ignoring the person who dropped it.