Saudi Arabia’s US-backed war has wrought famine on Yemen without global condemnation

Evidence

Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, offers another lurid illustration of the world of inconstancy between it and the Ukrainian struggle of self-determination. For nearly six years, Yemen has been relentlessly pummeled by a Saudi regime seeking to expand its regional footprint. Supported by the United Arab Emirates and backed by the United States, the grossly asymmetrical “war” has sunk Yemen into emergency famine and disaster. There has been no global condemnation of the war; instead, Yemenis struggling for their very survival have been met with silence, the American support of the Saudi sword, and the incessant indictment of terrorism. Fighting terrorist ghosts and the boogeyman of Iran, Saudi Arabia—armed by its close allies in Washington, DC—has license to kill Yemenis en masse. Without alarm from state actors, and without the urgency of media coverage. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1187

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading of Iftikhar for the global-synthesis view. — connects to: US war in Yemen caused 100,000 deaths and 250,000 starvation deaths since 2015; US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia enabled famine killing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 538
• QUESTION: The six-year Saudi war — could pursue the timeline and precise civilian toll to anchor the global double standard further.