Yemen-Saudi Conflict and International Response

On Friday, a Saudi attack targeted Sana'a International Airport,

resulting in the deaths of two of its employees.

On Saturday, the Yemeni Armed Forces struck

Khalid Airport in Riyadh, exposing the falsehoods of the

Saudi narrative.

Sana'a Airport has long been besieged by the Diriyah regime

for more than a decade, bombed time and

again. Today, Riyadh Airport's services have stopped

as a result of the Yemeni response to what the

hands of the Al Saud regime have wrought. Are action and reaction

equal in the eyes of the United Nations? Or does it have

a flaw that makes it see differently?

The United Nations must maintain international peace and security,

and to that end, it must suppress acts

of aggression and other breaches of peace.

This is what Article One of the United Nations

Charter stipulates. Second, the Organization is based on the principle

of sovereign equality among all its members,

and this appears to be nothing but ink on paper.

The UN Secretary-General saw Riyadh Airport

but did not see Sana'a Airport. He condemns the response

and forgets the action. He adds that

Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure

constitute a violation of international law, and it is worth

reminding us that international law, and the aforementioned law

itself, establishes the principle of treatment

in kind, and that is exactly what Yemen did, no

more and no less.

Some may say that metaphor stems from his occupying

the presidency of the UN General Assembly, so let there be

a little fidelity to the Charter intended by

that body, whose first chapter establishes its foundations

on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members,

meaning one is not the son of a free woman and another the son of a slave girl.

Its envoy, Grundberg, also joined him in condemnation, though he is

tasked with neutrality among all parties

and with creating an atmosphere conducive to a

future political settlement, yet he seemed to side with his employer

and show bias toward the Kingdom, not to mention accusations of threatening

navigation and other matters, to the point that anyone hearing him

would think him a spokesman for bin Salman alone. This does not seem

to be a matter of an airport hit here and an airport shut down

there, as much as it seems to be a test of the meaning of justice

When it is placed on the table of international politics.

When the victim is Yemeni, silence becomes

diplomacy, and when the response reaches

Riyadh, the language of condemnation awakens, and

the texts of international law are summoned from their drawers for the Charter.

An eye that sees only one way,

and sovereignty in it is a right bestowed

To America's relatives and loved ones.

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