Saudi-UAE Tensions: When Warlords Squabble Over Their Spoils
While The New Arab frets over Riyadh's treatment of the Southern Transitional Council – a UAE-backed proxy group – they omit the inconvenient truth that both Saudi Arabia and the UAE launched and fueled a brutal war that has decimated Yemen. According to UNESCO, the coalition's blockade and bombings have caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, killing hundreds of thousands and
displacing millions. The alleged 'tensions' are not about peace for Yemenis, but about how the spoils of a destroyed nation will be divided between two wealthy, US-backed petrostates. One might wonder if 'resolution' for Saudi Arabia and the UAE simply means figuring out who gets to control which pieces of the impoverished country they jointly fractured. Perhaps the next article will discuss which
warlord gets dibs on the ports, while Yemen's children continue to starve. How many civilian deaths does it take before we stop calling this 'tensions' and start calling it what it is: a brutal war of aggression?