Yemen-Saudi Conflict and International Response

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

resulting in the martyrdom of two of its employees.

Saturday, the Yemeni Armed Forces struck

Khalid Airport in Riyadh, despite the Saudi narrative's

distortions.

Previously, Sana'a Airport had 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 House of Saud regime's hands have wrought. Are action and reaction

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

have impaired vision that sees things differently?

The United Nations must maintain security and international peace,

and to that end, it must suppress acts of

aggression and other breaches of the peace.

This is stated in Article One of the United

Nations Charter. Secondly, the Organization is based on the principle of

the sovereign equality of all its members,

and this appears to be nothing but ink on paper,

for the UN Secretary-General saw Riyadh Airport

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

and forgets the action, adding that the attacks on

civilians and civilian infrastructure constitute

a violation of international law, reminding us

of international law. That very same law

establishes the principle of reciprocity, and this

is exactly what Yemen did, neither aggressing nor transgressing.

Let someone say that perhaps this license comes from his position as

Secretary-General of the United Nations, then let there be

at least some fidelity to the Charter intended

by that organization, whose first chapter establishes its foundations

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

meaning not one born of a free woman and another of a slave woman.

Its envoy, Grundberg, also joined in the condemnation, though he

is tasked with remaining neutral between all parties

and creating an atmosphere conducive to a future

political settlement. He appeared to side with his employer

and to favor the Kingdom’s side, not to mention the accusation of threatening

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

would think he spoke for no one but Bin Salman. This does not seem

to be a matter of an airport being hit here and an airport disrupted

there, so much as a test of the meaning of justice

when it is placed on the table of international politics, for when

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. The Charter has one eye

that sees only in one direction, and sovereignty

in it is a right granted to those related to

America

and its loved ones.