Help the Yemeni people rise up against their Houthi executioners

There is nothing surprising in the Houthi statements. Since 2011, we have grown accustomed to this kind of outcry born of pain, because fools have chosen to defy geography and history. However, this outcry is wrapped in threats.

For 15 years, the Yemeni people have been suffering under the weight of poverty, disease, and hunger, due to the control of a militia that takes orders from a renegade regime, which lives in the depths of racism and an obsession with ruling and subjugating the region.

Therefore, the Houthi group’s threat to close the Bab al-Mandab strait contained nothing new. They have attempted this several times before, and regional and international disciplinary operations were always ready. However, the nature of the threat today is different. The region is in a state of war, and its prospects appear to be expanding, especially with Iran’s continuous aggression against Gulf states and the suffocating sanctions Iran faces. Iran threatens chaos across the entire region, operating on the premise that a loser burns all bridges behind him to force his group to commit suicide with him. Thus, the danger today is greater than it was previously.

This is the true description of what is happening today in Yemen, which has suffered for 15 years from the tyranny of an armed terrorist minority that controls the fate of millions of a subdued people. This group practices systematic violence both domestically and internationally. Here, we must acknowledge that Arab impotence since 2011 in dismantling the arms of the Tehran regime in the region—from Lebanon to Iraq, and ending in Yemen—has allowed this group to practice its terrorism against everyone.

It is true that the Arab Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy marginalized the Houthi group, forcing it to live in isolation in the mountains of Saada. However, it still possesses the power to disturb its neighbors, particularly the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through its attempts to support Iran by destabilizing the situation in the Red Sea, i.e., its attempt to expand the scope of the war.

The inability to thwart the power of this group is rooted in the lack of sufficient Arab and UN support for the Yemeni people to free themselves from it. We must remember that the world mobilized to fight Somali pirates when they threatened some commercial ships near Yemen. This means the world has multiple standards and does not operate with a single ruler.

Here, the international community errs. The Houthi threats are not merely about the security of certain countries; they are a copycat version of the Hormuz Strait scenario. Therefore, any threat to a Saudi or Gulf commercial ship means further disruption to the global economy and higher costs.

The beneficial recipe for the salvation of the region and the world is to defeat the Houthis by supporting the Yemeni people to rise up against them. Because the fall of this stone will naturally lead to the fall of the domino stones with which the Tehran regime arms itself and works to disturb the world.

The closest example to us is Syria. When its people rose up against the Bashar al-Assad regime, the foundations of the so-called "Axis of Resistance" were shaken. This significantly weakened the Tehran regime, as there was a regional and international decision for the salvation of the Syrian people.

Therefore, what is required today is to dismantle the second pillar, which is the Houthi group in Yemen, which worries the Gulf Cooperation Council states and the world as well. This can be achieved through a strict UN decision. If there is no radical cure, the situation will continue for a long time, raising costs for the international economy. Are the countries prepared for this scenario?