Ansarullah Leader:

Trump's Visit to Riyadh Aimed at Disintegration of Arab States

Rasa - Leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, underlined that US President Donald Trump's visit to Riyadh is aimed at weakening and disintegrating the Arab countries and helping Israel.

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Date: 21 May 2017 - 23:24

RNA - "Trump's trip to Riyadh is in line with implementing the US and Israel's plots to annihilate the Arab states after weakening and disintegrating them," al-Houthi said on Sunday.

"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are financial sponsors of these plots and when their role ends, it will be their own turn to become annihilated by poverty," he added.

In relevant remarks earlier today, Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, referred to Trump's visit to Riyadh, and warned that Washington is using Saudi Arabia's wealth and petrodollars to implement its plots in the region.

"In such conditions, Saudi Arabia's wealth is at the service of a plot whose goal is securing Israel's stability in the next decades and fighting anyone who opposes this plan," Atwan wrote on Sunday.

"Also, the Saudi money is being used to save the US economy and help Trump to act upon his promises during his presidential campaign on massive investment on the US infrastructures," he added.

Warning that the Saudi-US strategic view focuses on annihilation of any resistance groups against Israel, Atwan added that the reason for Riyadh's invitation to Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, who is an enemy of Hezbollah, and not Lebanese President Michel Aoun to the Arab leaders' meeting with Trump has been the same.

Trump landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

Beneath the symbolism remains the antagonism that Trump has fueled with his anti-Muslim views expressed both on the campaign trail and in the White House.

During the campaign, Trump said “Islam hates us,” proposed “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” floated the idea of monitoring US mosques and officially re-introduced the term “Islamic terrorism” in the American political parlance.

And, just seven days after taking office on January 20, Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

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