“Any association with the (Yemeni) regime will only confirm al Qaida’s narrative, which is that America is only interested in maintaining corrupt and despotic rulers and is not interested in the fate of Arabs and Muslims,” warned Bernard Haykel, a Princeton University professor.
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Terrorism is largely a reactionary movement (repeat after me)
Just how clueless are the American media when it comes to reporting terrorism and Yemen? Unbelievably so, writes Rami Khouri in Lebanon’s Daily Star.
Is the US capable of not only sending missiles to help Yemen?
Patrick Cockburn in the Independent on Washington’s seeming desperation to fall into al-Qaeda’s trap again and again and escalate militaristic policies in a Muslim land: There is ominous use by American politicians and commentators of the phrase “failed state” in relation to Yemen, as if this some how legitimised foreign intervention. It is extraordinary that…
Jews hidden in dark corners around the world, like Yemen
A fascinating feature from the weekend’s Wall Street Journal on the profound troubles facing Jews in Yemen. I often argue anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that is deliberately exaggerated in the West to justify Israeli actions, but these stories seem real and devastating: In his new suburban American home, Shaker Yakub, a Yemeni Jew, folded a…
