A Huthi Confession?..................
Arab and Iranian media report that Abdelmalak al-Huthi, leader of the Shi’a rebels in northern Yemen, has proposed an initiative to stop their war with Saudi Arabia. He suggested that the rebels are willing to withdraw from Saudi territory if the Saudis agree to stop fighting them.
One disturbing aspect about this is that I was certain, almost certain, that the Huthis had not initiated the fighting with Saudi Arabia, that the Saudis were the aggressors. It looks like I was wrong, uncharacteristically wrong. That is what it looks like as of now- stay tuned.
Another disturbing aspect is that the Saudi armed forces have apparently not been able to dislodge all the rebels from their territory. Although there have been past claims that they had evicted the Huthis back to Yemen. And what about all the sophisticated weapons, the best and most expensive outside the West and Israel?
Of course, in a guerrilla war, territory is a fluid concept; it belongs to whoever holds it at the time. Fighting a war in the rugged land of north Yemen has always been tough, as the Egyptians found out in the 1960s and as the Saudis under King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud found out in the 1930s.
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