What Brother Aidaroos Al-Zubaidi said, that some of the leaders of the Yemeni Islah Party are terrorists, is not new, and he is not the only one who said this. There are reformist leaders who have been included on international, American and Gulf terrorist lists. In 2004 AD, the Security Council included the late Sheikh Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani on lists financing terrorism, and other figures were included on multiple lists.

 Also, in 2014 AD, Saudi Arabia included the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood on its terrorist list, which is the organization to which the Islah Party belongs intellectually - or part of it -, and in 2020 AD the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars did the same thing. The UAE also followed Saudi Arabia’s example.

 However, these countries continued to deal normally with the Islah Party, and the party continued to receive generous support from the coalition after the outbreak of the 2015 war until today. Which means that most of these classifications are nothing more than means of pressure, blackmail, and extracting consent. Rather, what is strange is that such a classification is done for a specific group by a number of countries, and then these groups are treated as if nothing had happened, and this necessarily means that these countries condemn themselves. By dealing with terrorism, and even by supporting and arming it. 

   This statement may apply to the Transitional Council, meaning that we say that the Transitional Council, through its Chairman Al-Zubaidi, said that there are leaders in the Islah Party who are terrorists, and at the same time the Transitional Council is dealing with this party!

With the difference that the transitional party is not a state that can be blamed to the same extent as it falls on other countries, just as the transitional government did not support these groups or deal with them, as some countries that claim to fight terrorism do, and they finance and protect it, as America does in several regions of the world. Indeed, the southern forces are the only ones that paid the price for their confrontation with terrorism after the defeat of Saleh’s forces and the Houthis in 2015 AD and their exit from Aden when Aden was engulfed by those groups that were part of the camp confronting Saleh’s forces. And the Houthis, with the support of the coalition, left the task of cleaning the scene to the southern forces alone and turned its back on the terrible situation at the time.

     The funny thing is that Al-Zubaidi talks about reformist terrorist leaders at the same time as he talks about the necessity of unifying the ranks of legitimacy to confront the Houthis, who in turn were included in the terrorist list yesterday, but on the American list, and this American classification may undermine the efforts of previous understandings between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis or postpone their signing. This classification will also greatly complicate the situation, shuffle the cards again, and cast a dark shadow on the collapsed humanitarian and economic aspects. Originally.

P. Al-Saqladi