Al Saud puppet regime of US, Israel: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Gearoid O Colmain, a political commentator and journalist from Paris, to investigate Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen.

Press TV: Mr. Colamian Amnesty International has called for an investigation into civilian casualties of Saudi aggression on Yemen. While the United Nations has failed to condemn the resumption of the air strikes on Yemen, how serious this investigation would be taken by the related authorities and what could a mere investigation do to heal the pain of people in Yemen?   

Colmain: I do not think that the authorities are interested in humanitarian concerns in Yemen. The Western press have very much been behind this terrorist onslaught by the Saudi regime against Yemen. There is very little outrage about the killing, about the targeting of civilian infrastructure. They have hit universities, schools, hospitals. The bombing campaign is very similar to the NATO bombing campaign in Libya in 2011, where they targeted civilian infrastructure. The purpose of the bombing campaign is to bring Yemen under US-Israeli control and also to incite ethnic and religious hatred that would create a sort of civil war between the followers of Shia Zaidi [Muslims] and Sunni Muslims in the country. The war is part a new political agenda, a militarization of the strait of [Bab] el-Mandab. The NATO, for example, has increased militarization in Djibouti, which is across the water from Yemen.

So the humanitarian concerns are of no significance to planners in Washington and Tel Aviv who are really very much directing this. We should understand that the Saudi regime is puppet regime of the United States and Israel, and they are doing their bidding. The Saudi regime, of course, is one of the worst dictatorships in modern history and it is unprecedented in cruelty and the horrific message that uses to oppress its own people. So we cannot possibly expect that a country like Saudi Arabia would be interested in protecting civilians of other countries. This is an act of upright aggression and genocide campaign, very similar to the NATO bombing of Libya in 2011 and very much similar as well to the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014.

All these campaigns seek to destroy the civilian infrastructure, that is the only way to bring a country under the control of imperialist powers. They also want to foment ethnic and religious strife and create a civil war and open up a new serious proxy war against Iran. Saudis have pointed out that the justification for this military adventure has been that the Shias in Yemen are being supported by Iran. That has actually been dismissed by the US intelligence reports. There is no evidence to show that Iran has been behind the Houthi rebellion in Yemen.

In fact, the Iranians discouraged it because they didn’t want the destabilization of Yemen that would possibly jeopardize their efforts to find a peaceful solution to their own nuclear issues with West. That has been a justification, but the humanitarian issue could of course serve the people of Yemen and people of the region but the West is not absolutely interested in that issue.

Press TV: What legal actions could Yemenis take against Saudi Arabia considering the fact that Saudi Arabia launched its war on Yemen without a UN mandate?

Colmain: Very difficult for a country that is being attacked by a puppet state and an ally of the United States to take legal action as the Syrian government has a massive dossier of war crimes and crimes against humanity that are very well-documented. They have approached the UN and the UN has refused to consider their case. The international authorities are not sufficiently objective to be able to take action in terms of prosecuting the warmongers in Saudi Arabia. That is the essential problem right now. What we need are credible international institutions.

The UN is effectively an extension of the US imperial power. Technically, Saudi Arabia is the aggressor, but it is very difficult for Yemen to get justice and stop this [aggression] legally. Of course the war is illegal, an illegal attack, it does not matter that you are working for the United States and Israel. So this is the problem. I think what they will do is to attempt to destroy the country , destroy the civilian infrastructure and they will prop up the al-Qaeda. That is what we are seeing. We see a massive upsurge of the ISIL and so on and the Israelis at this stage are doing chaos management for geopolitical purposes.        

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