Who is responsible for igniting the war again in Yemen?
With the confirmation that political negotiations have reached a dead end, Yemen is facing a new turning point that portends the return of military escalation on the fronts, but there remain questions about who bears responsibility for the war and its direction?
Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
Until October 2023, the Yemeni-Saudi negotiations were one step away from announcing a final agreement that would end years of confrontation, but America threw all its weight then to stop the signing in the last moments, according to statements by participating officials in the negotiations, to link the course of peace in Yemen to stopping Yemeni operations in support of Gaza.
Although Saudi Arabia, the weaker party in the signing equation, showed some neutrality during the battle that lasted for more than a year, and in which America and Britain entered militarily in an attempt to support the occupation on the Red Sea front, it was counting on changing its faltering fortunes in the previous years of confrontation.
Today, with Yemen’s decision to de-escalate in compliance with the agreement to stop the war and lift the siege on Gaza, it was supposed that the regional and international parties would push to resume the Yemeni-Saudi negotiations, but the opposite has happened. With Trump’s return to the White House, its most prominent decision was to reclassify the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen as a terrorist organization, for no goal other than to cut off the path to any political settlement.
The American didn’t stop at the limits of the classification, which includes freezing funds and accounts and hindering aid, but extended to mobilizing in the region, either through pressure on the regional mediator to close the only diplomatic window or to push the other parties to the war to re-form alliances for war again on Yemen.
In fact, Yemen has only one gateway left, which is war, and it is the one that will reformulate the rules of the game in the country according to the data of the new stage, in which the Yemeni forces have proven a high degree of capability and efficiency in confronting the occupation and its strongest allies, and the indicators of this have become stronger today with the return of confrontations on the outskirts of the cities of Marib, Taiz, and Lahj, in addition to the Yemeni threat to resume cross-border operations, especially with Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the new escalation and its attempt to maneuver with the Trump card.
Perhaps the choice of reaching a fair formulation of peace between Yemen and Saudi Arabia would have been the best for all parties, given the experiences of the confrontations over the past years, which have proven the ability of the owners of the land to decide them, and these opportunities may have now diminished with Saudi Arabia’s attempt to search for opportunities to evade them, but it is certain that any return to war will hit Saudi Arabia fatally and will set it back years.