Analyst:

US party to Saudi war on Yemen

Rasa - While Saudi Arabia has resumed airstrikes against the Yemeni people after end of a two-day ceasefire, reports say the United States is working to have the cessation of hostilities remain in place. Other reports indicate that the US has been supporting the Saudi aggression against Yemen since the day one of the war. Washington has provided the Saudis with logistics, intelligence and weapons to hit targets in the impoverished Arab nation.

News ID: 425249

Date: 22 November 2016 - 22:57

RNA - Medea Benjamin, with the CODEPINK, told Press TV’s Top 5 that the American authorities are supporting the Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, while they are hypocritically calling for cessation of hostility between the warring sides.

Benjamin noted that the United States’ inaction to stop Saudi war on Yemen “shows the hypocrisy of John Kerry, US Secretary of State, trying to negotiate a ceasefire when the US is actually a party to the war on the side of Saudi Arabia.”

She also said, “If the US really wants to stop it, it could declare a halt in our weaponry sales to Saudi Arabia and say, we stop refueling Saudi planes, stop their maintenance and impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia.”

She added that “there was a voting in Congress, [and] only 27 senators agreed that we should stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia.”

According to the analyst, “The Obama administration says it has pulled out some of its advisers and is not supporting the Saudis in terms of targeting,” but “they have to do a lot more to really prove that the US was getting itself out of the war.”

“Unfortunately, I don’t think the world’s attention is focused on Yemen, which is why the US and the Saudis have been able to get away with this constant bombardment for the last 20 months,” she argued.

She further noted that the US is not paying attention to the increased media focus on Yemen because there is not any real effort by America “to say the Saudis enough is enough.”

Saudi Arabia has been leading an offensive against Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former Yemeni administration. The war has left at least 11,400 civilians dead, according to a latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.

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