Houthi... Now Here

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"Now here... or the Eastern Mediterranean again," is the title of a sad, boiling political and humanitarian novel by the late Abdul Rahman Munif... and it is an appropriate title to recall today with the eruption and turmoil of the Houthis and their revolution in the land and waters of western and southern Arabia.

The various Houthi attacks on ships, particularly Saudi ones, in the sea, and on civilian and non-civilian sites in Saudi Arabia, are a clear expression of the Iranian intentions using the Houthi obsessed with historical contracts and doctrines. This is all known, but I presented it to pose the question; and now what?!

We are in the midst of an Iranian assault on the Gulf states, led by Saudi Arabia, and a direct threat to all meanings and images of security, a threat - in my opinion - that surpasses or at least equals the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to the entire Gulf security when he invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990.

Yes, history cannot repeat itself in the same form and image, but one cannot be deluded about the existence of danger today, in forms different from the dangers posed by Saddam at that time, and I say that the danger is greater today due to the Houthi and Iraqi militias' reliance on Iranian depth and supportive networks at the regional and global levels, and the existence of media spots that advocate for Iran's narratives and its Yemeni and Iraqi affiliates.

The duty, in addition to this, is to place the danger at its true level, then understand it, examine it, and turn over all its details, and then set the goal: is it to eliminate the Houthi threat or just to sedate and lull it?!

This means, in what it means, to reform the Yemeni soil and prepare it for good sowing, and to build a unified discourse that includes all spectra of the Yemeni front opposing the Houthis, and to go with one voice, regionally, to the world. I realize the difficulty of easing all this when entering into details and forming capable working teams intellectually and politically... etc. But there is no way around it, to liberate the present and safeguard the future.

The Houthi is a political ideological network linked to a larger alliance and world, which is the Iranian alliance, and this in turn is part of a larger planet called: political Islam, which includes the Brotherhood, the Qaeda, and perhaps the Sururi as well (according to the perspective of Muhammad Hamid Al-Ahmari), and all this mixture together is part of the global revolutionary anarchist dismantling group, and within this group are the extremists of the left and the new communist youth movements in America and the West, and these movements stand behind new young politicians in America.

Therefore, this world must be confronted with a counter world, and this is a battle of generations, life, and continuous awareness and generous intellectual giving, and not just passing media or diplomatic campaigns, no matter how loud they are.

Yes, we have been in an intermittent war with the Houthis for about 16 years, but I think that is enough time for knowledge and transformation into a happy ending. Now... and here once again.. and finally.

According to "Asharq Al-Awsat"