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To Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah
YemenExtra
By –Ashraf Al-Kabsi
You are a terrorist, so said the Arab League, and continued to taunt Aruba about the dinner, and good appetite, this prince ate a soup of a few children from Saada, and that king chewed on some of…
War In The Middle East—Again?
YemenExtra
By Robert E. Hunter
About this time 15 years ago, the United States was gearing up for a war against Iraq. Saddam Hussein was purported to have weapons of mass destruction. There was no doubt about his aggressive…
U.N. pleads for end of Yemen blockade or ‘untold thousands’ will die
YemenExtra
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles
The coalition closed all air, land and sea access to Yemen on Nov. 6 following the interception of a missile fired towards the Saudi capital, saying it had to stem the flow of…
We understand the Jordanian minister’s anger at the defense of Al-Houthi about Palestine
By:Talib Al-Hasani
Because the head of the revolutionary committee in Yemen, Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, criticized the role of Jordan and Egypt, the two Arab countries bordering the two occupied territories in the…
On The Destabilization Of The Middle East
YemenExtra
By:Derek Davison
One of America’s favorite talking points on Iran is its “destabilizing” role in the Middle East. There’s no question that Iran does things that contribute to regional instability. In…
Ignoring U.S. Complicity in the Destruction of Yemen
YemenExtra
BY:Daniel Larison
There hasn’t been much Western media coverage of the war on Yemen, and often when there are reports the role of the U.S. in helping to make the war possible is minimized or left out all…
60 Minutes Imagines A Different War In Yemen
YemenExtra
By:DEREK DAVISON
The November 19 episode of the CBS News program 60 Minutes devoted its first segment to covering the humanitarian atrocity taking place in Yemen. Or rather, it devoted its first segment…
Yemen quietly slips away, much like its starving children
YemenExtra
With a Saudi blockade and a cholera epidemic considered the world’s worst in decades, it’s worth remembering that the conflict in Yemen goes beyond the apparent proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.…
The Saudi Israeli Alliance
YemenExtra
Israel’s leaders won’t go war on Riyadh’s behalf but are quite happy to lure it into a series of self-destructive conflicts
By Abdel Bari Atwan
Saudi Arabia continues to spring surprises and fan the flames of conflict in…
International Law is Meant to Prevent What’s Happening in Yemen
YemenExtra
BY:Nathalie Weizmann
Every day brings worse news from Yemen. This morning, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that water and sewage systems in three cities in Yemen – Hodeidah, Sa’ada and…