Ansarullah Reprisal Operations: Yemen Strikes Saudi Airports — Truth Jihad Radio

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Press TV: Good evening. Today, October the 8th, marks ten years since one of the deadliest attacks of the Yemen war, when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a packed funeral hall in the capital Sana’a, killing and wounding hundreds. Ten years later, Saudi Arabia is once again escalating its military campaign in Yemen, and Ansarullah is responding with attacks reaching deep inside the Saudi territory. The latest ballistic missile strike targeted King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh following deadly attacks on Saudi airports earlier this week. So, is Ansarullah’s reprisal strategy creating a new deterrent against Saudi aggression? Or is Yemen heading toward an even wider regional war?

That’s what we’ll be discussing tonight with our guests. Ali Hamieh joining us, military and strategic affairs analyst from the capital, Beirut. And also joining us will be Kevin Barrett, editor of Al-Andalus Tribune joining us from Saidia, Morocco. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me at this hour. I’m going to begin with our guest in Beirut.

Mr. Hamieh, thank you so much for your time tonight. We have 10 years on the massacre and the funeral of Sana’a. What does this anniversary, Mr. Hamia, tell us about the roots of the current confrontation that we are witnessing between Saudi Arabia and Yemen?

Ali Hamieh: Let’s say that the 8th of October is 24 hours away from 7th of October. And we can see that Yemen and Palestine are under the category of oppressed people, one from the Israelis, and the other by the proxies of the Israelis and the Americans, the Saudis and the GCC countries.

And we can see all goals go into the same target: how to protect Israel and how to protect the American interests and the American military bases in the region. And it’s all connected.

Every time we hear about American withdrawal from anyplace…Didn’t we hear that the United States withdrew from Iraq about 15 years ago, 2011? So what are they withdrawing from right now? And we can see that the main goal is attacking Yemen. It’s by American dictation. And for Israelis benefit. And also this is the condition for Mohammed bin Salman to become a king. He has to get into a war against Yemen in order to satisfy the Israelis and the Americans.

Press TV: That’s right. Mr. Barrett, thank you so much for your time tonight as well. I wanted your broad takeaway when it comes to the escalation and tit-for-tat strikes between the Yemeni military and also Saudi Arabia. What is happening on the ground? And what is the role of the Americans here? We talked about this before, that there are about 200 U.S. military strategists that are helping Riyadh with its military operations. Your thoughts on that as well?

Kevin Barrett: Yes, it’s not surprising that Riyadh has had to depend on outside help for its military operations. This is a longstanding pattern, and essentially it’s because this society is not really an organic, coherent society with leadership representing a people or a nation. It’s basically a warlord family that was put in place by the British imperialists and maintained in place by the American imperialists. And so they’ve long been depending on foreign support, mainly American support, although they did get French Special Forces to help them attack some people who had been trying to take over the holy city of Mecca at one point.

And they have used other help as well. They’ve apparently gotten covert Israeli help and betrayed the Muslim Ummah by doing so. And now we’ve got these hundreds of American so-called advisors helping them, the way American advisors ran the war in Vietnam when they were secretly infiltrating smaller numbers of mercenaries before they went in big time.

But this time the American empire is on its way out. And so the leadership in Riyadh really should think hard about whether it wants to join itself at the hip to this foreign power that’s been running roughshod over the region and killing millions of people in the region and supporting the genocide of Palestine.

And now that great power, the United States, is pulling out of the region. And it’s even pulling out of Britain, according to major media stories here in the United States, because Britain, too, is within reach of Iranian strikes. So they’re leaving the West Asia region.

The Americans may or may not feel the need to go to war with China to try to decide the issue of who is the supreme global hegemon. But they’re not going to be there to keep propping up the Saudi royal family for very long. And so this is really a bad move by the Saudis, because they are setting themselves up for trouble. They’re trying to bring in this new alliance with Turkey and Pakistan, but I don’t think Turkey and Pakistan have any interest in sending major military forces to the Arabian Peninsula to try to prop up this unpopular and corrupt regime in Riyadh.

So Yemen is fighting to liberate the Arabian Peninsula, and if there can’t be some kind of compromise, then they’re going to have to go all the way.

Press TV: Mr. Hamieh, you listened to our other guest’s analy