Doha's coalition with the Brotherhood and the Houthis: Yemen ... the Qatari road to the heart of Saudi Arabia
English - Saturday 27 March 2021 الساعة 10:46 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
After the signing of the Gulf reconciliation agreement at the Al-Ula summit in Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2021 AD, many expected a fundamental change in the aggressive performance of the State of "Qatar" against the Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it seems that the agreement was nothing but a passing summer cloud, as Qatar's media, in particular, soon returned Al-Jazeera channel to adopt and publish everything that offends Saudi Arabia and its leaders, and to glorify, highlight and exaggerate everything that targets its security and stability, especially the attack by the Iranian arm in Yemen of Saudi cities and its vital oil installations with ballistic missiles or booby-trapped drones.
In addition to the intention of Al-Jazeera to make more room than before to adopt, publish, promote and analyze the positions of the Houthi militia, the last of which is a special interview with the official spokesman for the militias, Muhammad Abdul Salam, who Al-Jazeera gave him the opportunity to try to wash the crimes of his militia and defend all its actions and attack Saudi Arabia from the platform of the program ( Without Borders) broadcasted by the channel.
Yemen ... the Qatari road to "the heart of Saudi Arabia"
The signing of the border agreement between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in 2000 AD represented a strategic shift in the relationship between the two countries, on the contrary, Qatar embarked on a process of building and double financing for religious extremist groups that threaten Yemen and Saudi Arabia simultaneously, and even financed groups that present themselves as antitheses, such as the Brotherhood and the Houthis. And Al Qaeda, which are the groups whose non-joint action led to the same result, which is the fall of the political system and the outbreak of multiple wars that brought down the Yemeni state and transferred the threat to Saudi lands.
While Qatar was weaving its relationship with Al-Qaeda in Yemen, its money revived the performance of the Brotherhood in the Islah and Al-Rashad parties next, and it had entered with all its weight with the "Houthi" since its claim to mediate in his wars against the state of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Against the Houthi militia, from a battle against an internal rebellion to an international cause and to show these rebel militias as a minority.
Since Qatar's mediation between the government and the rebel Houthi militias in 2007, Qatari support for the Houthis has turned into a policy aimed at transforming these militias from a small rebel group into a strong military and intellectual component that obtained Qatari financial support and military support with weapons from Iran, as part of Qatar’s project aimed at dividing Yemen between Two ideological orientations: The first is the Brotherhood approach represented by the Islah Party. The second is the Houthi project, which is an extension of the Iranian project of Wilayat al-Faqih.
A Qatari project that started implementation before 2011
Facts and information reveal that what is happening is not new. Rather, it is a continuation of an old Qatari approach based on a strategic goal, which is “targeting the security and stability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by supporting Yemeni groups with a religious orientation with its two Sunni sides represented by the Muslim Brotherhood (Islah Party) and terrorist groups (Al Qaeda and ISIS), and the Shiites. Represented by the pro-Iranian terrorist Houthi militia, carrying out its agenda, and turning these groups into tools of harm to Saudi Arabia targeting its national security.
In 2011, all parties gathered together, in what was called the project of creative chaos that struck a number of countries under the name of the Arab Spring, as Qatar struck Yemen and Saudi Arabia with one stone.
In the crisis of the year 2011 AD, the Houthi Brotherhood coordination appeared in a way that no one expected, as the Brotherhood contributed to facilitating the exit of the Houthi militias from Saada and their arrival to the university square in Sana'a, and the terminology of the revolutionaries and the free men being used, portraying them as oppressed and that the state's wars against their rebellion were the direction of the regime and its president, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and that it is one of the mistakes that must represent a justification for toppling the regime.
While Qatari money was financing parties, the public momentum of popular demands shifted in their favor, the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel was at the forefront of mobilizing instincts for conflict and the bombing of the war in the capital, Sanaa, amid a speech that talks about the next revolution in Riyadh .. after “Cairo” had been overthrown before that. The Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hamad bin Jassim, appeared at the time calling for Saleh to leave and hand over power.
It was clear that Qatar refused to sign the Gulf initiative. The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Al-Attiyah, who is Qatari, sought to blow up the situation with the former president, so the former president expelled him from the Republican Palace, and Qatar withdrew from the initiative. And after President Saleh showed solidarity, the Presidential House mosque was bombed in an attempt to assassinate all the leaders of the state present at the time.
The coalition ... and the State of Qatar
Although Qatar was forced to join the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which launched Decisive Storm against the Houthi militia, the first deliberately, as information confirms, to play a sabotage role within the framework of the coalition by leaking information to Houthi militia leaders, which enabled the latter to target The Arab coalition forces in Marib and the martyrdom of more than fifty, most of them Emiratis and Bahrainis.
In response to Qatar's involvement in supporting the Houthi militia against the coalition forces, the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, and with them Egypt, announced that they severed diplomatic relations with Qatar, and it was expelled from the Arab coalition on June 5, 2017.
This revealed the reality of the Qatari project, which returned to practice its policies targeting Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states by turning it into a supporter and coordinator between the Houthi militia and the Muslim Brotherhood (Islah Party), which was manifested through the unity and harmony of the political and media discourse of the two parties, which turned to attack Saudi Arabia and the UAE, And the adoption of political and media campaigns alleging the disintegration of the alliance and the emergence of differences between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
In addition to transforming Al-Jazeera into a platform for adopting campaigns of abuse and targeting the Brotherhood and the Houthis against Saudi Arabia and its leaders, through mediation, supervision and Qatari facilitation for the exchange of prisoners and killers between the two parties, as happened in the Houthi Brotherhood exchange of those involved in the bombing of the Presidential Mosque that targeted the former president and senior state leaders in June 2011, and they are Five Brotherhood members in exchange for the Brotherhood’s release of prisoners of Houthi militia leaders.
The risks of the Qatari support project for the Brotherhood and the Houthis to Yemen and Saudi Arabia
Concerning all of this, Qatar's strategy seeks to achieve two goals:
The first is to extend its political influence to Yemen and complete its project to empower religious groups, whether confused by the thought of the caliphate (the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen) or masked by the mask of thought (the Imamate) or the Wilayat al-Faqih (the Houthi group) to extend its influence and control over power in the Arab region, which is What appeared to be Qatar’s support for Hamas’s Brotherhood arm in Palestine’s control of power, and coordination of cooperation between it and Hezbollah, Iran's arm in Lebanon, and between them and Iran on the other hand.
As for the second goal, it is to turn Yemen into mere chaotic camps, fighting Saudi Arabia even without a political goal. The most important thing is to use it to harm Saudi Arabia, target it on the security, military and religious levels, and drain it economically. The circumstances complicate the reforms spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
