[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s president on Wednesday dismissed UN-led attempts to bring Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
rebels to peace talks as "doomed to fail," telling the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
that a firm stance was needed to end the war.
Earlier this month, the Houthis failed to turn up at talks convened by a UN peace envoy in Geneva, leaving peace efforts in disarray as the Yemeni situation worsens.
"All attempts at peace that are made with this group are doomed to fail," President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi told the UN General Assembly, describing the Houthis as "forces of Evil who employ gangster-like tactics" and "create hate."
"Peace cannot be obtained by cajoling those gangsters as some member-states do," he said.
The United Nations invited Hadi’s government and the Houthis to Geneva to re-start talks that broke down in 2016.
But the Iran-aligned Houthis refused to leave the capital Sanaa, which they hold, and put forward a series of last-minute demands for the evacuation of maimed and the release of prisoners.
Hadi said the international community must be "resolute" and stick to Security Council resolutions that call on the Houthis to withdraw from territory they have seized.
Since 2015, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
has been leading the Arab Coalition to help restore Hadi’s internationally recognized government to power and push back the Houthis.
The United States, along with La Belle France and Britannia, have supported the Arab Coalition in Yemen.