It was the UAE that the “legitimate” government in Yemen chose to chalked up to its political, security and administrative failure to manage the affairs of the Yemeni people in areas liberated from the Houthis. The government did not have the courage to acknowledge failure and inability to manage internal affairs. It went with the easiest solution by accusing the UAE and questioning its role in salvaging Yemen.
The Yemeni government thinks it has shifted the blame for failure to maintain security and stability onto the UAE. But it actually added the fuel of ungratefulness to the fire of failure.
The “legitimate” government in Yemen may not remember where it was four years ago. Perhaps it does not remember who came to the rescue of the Yemeni people and listen to the voice of distress, sacrificing the blood of its sons in support of justice and legitimacy against the incursion of the putschist Houthi militia.
Sadly, the Yemeni “legitimacy” government lacked any wisdom or rationality. It has chosen the United Nations as a platform to accuse the UAE, believing that the international community will act in response to empty and unfounded accusations.
The only consolation of the UAE is that it paid a heavy price from the blood of its children, confident that it has taken the right path. Its participation in the Saudi-led Arab coalition was a translation of a firm conviction of the values and history that unites the UAE and Yemen.
The ungrateful had no effect on the decisions and positions of the UAE towards the Yemeni people. They will have no effect, God willing, in its future positions either, for a simple reason. These ungrateful do not understand the facts of history nor the importance of taking responsibility for the values and principles we believe in.
The UAE will remain faithful to its principles in support of the legitimacy of the Yemeni people, but putting failure on it is a real tragedy sidetracking from the real problem.
In terms of the real threat to the future of Yemen, the Houthi aggression had an opportunity he had never dreamed of due to the confusion created by the “legitimate” government on current events. In terms of the real causes of what happened in Aden, the “legitimate” government itself planted the causes of division and fragmentation when it lent ears unto the Brotherhood and turned into a tool to carry out their plot to destroy Yemen.
The UAE does not need to intervene in Yemen for gains and interests made up by the mouthpieces of sedition. Any Arab country that wants to intervene in another country wouldn’t bear this high bill and sacrifice its sons. Their blood was mixed with the blood of their Yemeni and Saudi brothers for a secure and stable Arab Yemen. More than 20 billion UAE dirhams (about $ 5.59 billion) have been paid by the UAE to bear its share of the burden of Gulf and Arab security.
Given the calculations of strategic interests, it wouldn’t make sense for the UAE to undermine “legitimacy” in Yemen. This “legitimacy” is the legal basis under which the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia operates. You cannot shoot yourself in the foot.
It is true that the “legitimate” government crossed the line when it succumbed to the dictates of the Brotherhood with their self-interest and opportunist agenda. But that doesn’t show just cause for going down the scorched-earth path. The UAE has made invested blood, sweat and tears to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people, but the people are not to blame for the mistakes and mismanagament of their legitimate representatives.
The failed will not succeed in creating a rift between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. They will not succeed in winding down the UAE’s support to the Yemeni people. The UAE bases its efforts on the interests of the people and cultivating strong historical bonds and adventurists cannot undermine this.
