US involved in Yemen war on very broad scale: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Steven Kelley, a political commentator in Los Angeles, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s ongoing aggression against Yemen.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement pretty much convinced about the US complicity in the Saudi war on Yemen. Would you agree with the al-Houthi leader’s comments and if so what role has the US played in this unlawful war?

Kelley: Well certainly the US is involved on a very broad scale. This is very similar to the situation with the ISIS; it certainly works up the latter. Israel of course is in there. The Saudis and Israel and the USA, everybody plays their role ultimately for the grand designs of the Rothschild’s. Certainly the Saudis are using US hardware and we are making it very easy in giving them preferential treatment buying the hardware which is certainly not giving them any sort of restrictions on the hardware and how they are able to use it.

Obviously they have also been provided with cluster munitions and weapons that are considered illegal and yet here the United Nations is preparing to put Saudi in charge of human rights, so it is a very strange situation indeed.

Press TV: Well Saudi Arabia and its allies have been targeting Yemen indiscriminately. They have attacked schools, hospitals, about 6,100 civilians have been killed, any chance that Saudi Arabia can be tried for war crimes and what mechanisms does the international community have to go through to take Saudi Arabia and try it in an international tribunal?

Kelley: I think that any hope of some sort of a justice for the crimes being committed in this particular campaign will have to wait until a major change geopolitically. I think what we are seeing in the world today as witnessed by Russia’s presence in Syria is that the world is changing. NATO is starting to fall apart; obviously the American position in the world is certainly changing. So I think what we are seeing and certainly Saudi Arabia falls into that category is desperation and I think that it is all or nothing at this point and we are going to see all of the players, the key players launching into wars and genocidal campaigns that are made to maintain the status quo and I think until this status quo goes away and there is a major shift geopolitically involving all the players involved, that we will not see any sort of call for justice or actual trials involving these particular individuals.   

Press TV: Well are we going to see the United Nations take action and possibly announces a ceasefire, an end to this war any time soon?

Kelley: Again the United Nations is certainly not an example of where we should be looking for truth and justice. You know, appointing Saudi Arabia as the head of the human rights council I think is a perfect example of the – I do not want to say ignorance – but at least the complicity perhaps in the - I would say - double standards being applied to certain countries.

If that is to ever happen there does have to be a major change politically in the world not just in the United Sates but in the world in general and I do not see that happening until that change comes.  

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