War on Yemen will lead to Al Saud collapse: Anlyast

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ken Stone, with Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War, from Ontario, to get his take on the situation in Yemen after Saudi Arabia’s relentless airstrikes against the impoverished neighboring state.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you see the situation in Yemen unfolding?

Stone: I see the situation in Yemen unfolding not in a manner that the perpetrators of these massive war crimes, namely the Saudi Arabian government, the US and Israel, expected to unfold. The Saudis have the capability, with US and Israel, to lay waste to the infrastructure inside Yemen and indiscriminately kill civilians, but they don’t have the capability to put an army in the field. They failed to recruit an army from Egypt; they failed to recruit an army from Pakistan and in the end they don’t have an army themselves that they can put it in the field. So, their attack on Yemen, which is a war crime, is going to fail. At the end, the possible result for that would be the fall of House of Saud…in my opinion.

On the other hand, the people of Yemen have shown themselves to be very resilient. They have not given up fighting. In fact, they have launched counter-attacks in Saudi Arabia along the border. And my feeling is that like the people of Syria, the Yemeni people will garner the support of people who support peace around the world and oppose injustice and war. And they will attract to themselves the support that a just cause deserves. And I think the Yemeni people will prevail and they will drive out and stop the Saudi attack.

Press TV: Saudi Arabia has launched its war against Yemen without a UN mandate, then why does the UN seem to be powerless in doing anything about this?

Stone: I feel that the UN in this issue has not given a mandate, as you say, to Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen. On the other hand, it hasn’t condemned Saudi Arabia. And this is going to be, in historical terms as I said before on Press TV, regarded as one of the main failures of the United Nations at this time. What the United Nations should be doing is under Chapter 7, section 7, they should be condemning the Saudi government; they should be demanding collective action against the aggressor; and they should be taking collective action against the aggressor. We can only hope, as this struggle goes on that the United Nations Security Council will do what it was set up to do, that is to prevent aggression against the member states. It’s hard to do so when the main culprit here behind the scenes, the United States, maintains plausible deniability. It pretends that it doesn’t know what’s going on and that it has no role in the Yemeni situation. Even though it is using its satellites to guide Yemeni bombers and it’s refueling Yemeni bombers in the air and picking them up out of the sea when they hit the ground.

Press TV: Why do you think calls for political talks to end the crisis in Yemen have been ignored?

Stone: I think it takes some time for the international community and people around the world to recognize what exactly is happening and to respond. In fact, the United Nations has special representative and he’s supposed to be trying to bring the sides to Geneva to talk and that we can only hope that he is able to bring both sides together soon and put an end to the bombing and bring a ceasefire to the situation.

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