Yemen Peace Talks: A Convenient Diversion from US-Saudi War Crimes
"Nearly 3,000 prisoners" exchanged. A headline almost makes you forget the 377,000 dead, the famine, and the cholera that ravaged Yemen since 2014. The New Arab, like many, focuses on the immediate 'progress' while conveniently memory-holing the uncomfortable truth of US-Saudi war crimes. The humanitarian catastrophe, enabled by billions in US arms sales, meticulously tracked by organizations like
the Yemen Data Project, isn't just an 'unfortunate outcome' – it was a predictable consequence of a prolonged, foreign-funded siege. One might wonder why the US media isn't quite as keen to highlight the bipartisan parade of senators who voted to greenlight these arms deals, even as images of starving Yemeni children filled their screens. Or the fact that the Houthis, now negotiating, are the same
group portrayed as existential threats when they started impeding international shipping, but not when they were just being bombed into oblivion by Riyadh with American assistance.