Newspaper: Classic and primitive pressures of the international community failed to push the Houthis to the arena of peace
English - Thursday 17 June 2021 الساعة 11:55 am
NewsYemen, follow-up:
Al-Arab journalist said that it has become certain that the international community, led by the United States, is determined to apply an escalating type of pressure to push the Houthis to accept the ceasefire plan in Yemen prepared by the UN envoy, Martin Griffiths, and accepted by the Yemeni government and the Arab coalition.
But to what extent can international pressures succeed in forcing al-Houthi to accept the peace approach and abandon his ideological project that does not believe in the principle of political options?
She indicated that, after prominent Houthi leaders had already rushed to respond to the second package of US sanctions, they emphasized that nothing could stand in the way of the Houthis to complete their control over all of Yemen's geography, based on religious and not political concepts and visions, which provides a clear explanation for the reason for the group's refusal. Al-Houthi to stop its attacks on Marib as part of any ceasefire agreement, and insisting on separating the negotiation track with the Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, from the internal negotiation track that Al-Houthi seems to be intending to link to the completion of his project on the ground and the imposition of a fait accompli policy, to force the Yemenis to accept a reality without participate in its making.
The Iranian regime stands out in its defiance of the international community and its resistance to all forms of economic and political pressures it is subjected to as a possible ideal model for the upcoming Houthi behavior, as they met international demands to stop their attack on Marib by sending more ballistic missiles and killing dozens of civilians in the city crowded with displaced people.
They also responded to international statements calling on them to stop targeting Saudi territory by escalating their attacks using booby-trapped drones. As for international and UN efforts and mediations, the latest of which was Muscat mediation to persuade the Houthis to accept the international ceasefire plan, it does not seem that they found a deaf ear among the group’s leaders who leaked They had a sense of victory, which was evident in the statements of strength and defiance that they usually make at such times.
It has also failed and all the bets of the international community will fail to push the Houthis into the arena of peace by applying classic pressures on an armed group based on primitive ideas.
The main problem in the international and international community's dealings with the Yemeni file lies in ignorance of the nature of the conflict and its cultural and intellectual backgrounds, which is reflected in the way the world or the countries involved in it deal with this file.
This appears mainly in Washington’s dealings with the “Houthis,” when the new US administration launched its diplomatic work by removing the Houthi group from the list of terrorist organizations, based on a vision that the Houthis themselves promoted that they suffer from a state of isolation and regional and international ostracism that reduced their options and forced them to Continue their military path of violence.
In the next stage, and in an attempt to reverse the results of the American decision, Washington imposed a package of financial sanctions on Houthi military leaders, none of whom left Yemen for a day abroad, did not visit a bank, did not own a bank account one day, and his political reputation does not concern him when a country stigmatizes him as a terrorist, and he is the one who calls for five At least times a day after every prayer of her death through the famous Houthi slogan.
In light of the intertwined complexities related to the Houthi mentality, and considering that the war they are waging of a sacred nature does not accept taking a step back, all the world’s efforts to stop the war in Yemen are being squandered, just as all previous bets on killing or even taming the beast of terrorism have failed, a feature of Ideological groups that are good at playing with the terms victory, defeat and dialogue, make their defeat a victory, their victory empowering, and their acceptance of dialogue a mere “trick”.
