11-09-2017, 11:13 PM
*** 10-Nov-17 World View -- Saudi Arabia blockades Yemen, threatening millions to die in famine
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** All Saudis ordered to leave Lebanon, as Hariri's fate is unknown
****
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A poster depicting Saad al-Hariri, hanging in a neighborhood of his supporters in Beirut. The words say 'With you forever.' (Reuters)
While there aren't concerns that Saudi warplanes will be
flying over Lebanon tomorrow, the people of Lebanon are becoming
increasingly anxious over what Saudi Arabia is planning,
in view of the actions already taken.
On Thursday, Saudi Arabia ordered all Saudis in Lebanon to leave
immediately. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE) followed suit
immediately. Bahrain had made a similar statement earlier.
This followed last week's completely unexpected resignation of
Lebanon's prime minister, Saad al-Hariri, a resignation made all the
more shocking by the fact that al-Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia and
issued the resignation announcement over television from the Saudi
capital city Riyadh.
In his resignation speech, al-Hariri denounced Iran and Iran's puppet
organization Hezbollah for sowing strife in countries around the
region. He also said that he feared that they were planning to
assassinate him, as they had assassinated his father with a bomb in
2005.
It's widely suspected among the people of Lebanon that al-Hariri is
being held in Saudi Arabia against his will. In Lebanon's capital
city Beirut, politicians of all parties, including al-Hariri's own
party, are demanding that Saudi Arabia release him and allow him to
return to Lebanon and explain why he resigned. Government officials
are saying that they will not accept al-Hariri's resignation until he
returns and reaffirms it.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir on Thursday explained
in an interview what was going on from the Saudi point of view. He
blamed the situation on Iran and Hezbollah, and on Hezbollah's
increasing control of the government of Lebanon:
<QUOTE>"Hezbollah put roadblocks in front of every initiative
that Prime Minister Hariri tried to implement. Hezbollah has
pretty much hijacked the Lebanese system. It has been the
instrument that Iran used to dominate Lebanon, the instrument that
Iran used to interfere with Syria, with Hamas, and with the
Houthis. We see Hezbollah’s mischief all over the region.
Hezbollah has been responsible for smuggling weapons into Bahrain.
Hezbollah is involved in criminal activity, such as drug dealing
and money laundering.
We are saying that the world has to make sure that we designate
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. There can be no difference
between a political wing and a militant wing. The world needs to
take action in terms of curtailing Hezbollah's activities, and the
world needs to push back against Hezbollah wherever they
operate. We cannot allow Lebanon to be a platform from which harm
comes to Saudi Arabia.
The Lebanese people have been dominated by Hezbollah and we need
to find a way to help the Lebanese people come out from under the
thumb of Hezbollah. We cannot allow Lebanon to be a base from
which attacks against Saudi Arabia can take place and we are
urging the Lebanese government in particular to take firm and
resolute action against Hezbollah."<END QUOTE>
Lebanese government officials, speaking anonymously, reject
Al-Jubeir's claim:
<QUOTE>"Keeping Hariri with restricted freedom in Riyadh is
an attack on Lebanese sovereignty. Our dignity is his dignity. We
will work with (foreign) states to return him to
Beirut."<END QUOTE>
Lebanon will ask foreign governments to pressure Saudi Arabia to
release al-Hariri.
What the people of Lebanon fear most is that their country will now
join Syria as the site of a proxy war between Shias, led by Iran,
versus Sunnis, led by Saudi Arabia. Arab News and
Newsweek and Reuters
****
**** Saudi Arabia blockades Yemen, threatening millions to die in famine
****
Saudi Arabia imposed land, sea and air blockades on Yemen, preventing
aid organizations from delivering food and medicines.
Yemen has been engulfed in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and
Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2014. The war has already killed more
than 10,000 and displaced millions, with around 500,000 cholera cases
reported in the country since the worst outbreak in decades started in
April. Saudi Arabia has been bogged down in the war, making little
progress, and has already been accused of creating a humanitarian
disaster.
On Saturday last week, the Houthis launched a ballistic missile that
reached the King Khalid International Airport near Riyadh, about 800
km from the Yemen border. The Saudis were able to intercept it with
with a surface-to-air Patriot missile, but called it a 'dangerous escalation' in the war.
The missile
attack has been considered a game-changer in the war because it was
clearly an Iranian ballistic missile, and because of the distance it
traveled and its accuracy.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia responded by blockading all air, land
and sea routes into and out of Yemen, in order to prevent
Iran from sending weapons into Iran.
Yemen, which already was facing mass starvation and cholera cases,
imports 90% of all its food, and 100% of all its medicines.
Humanitarian organizations that have been supplying food and medicines
are now blocked from deliveries into Yemen.
On Wednesday, UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said that the
blockade would cause the worst famine since World War II:
<QUOTE>"It will not be like the famine that we saw in South
Sudan earlier in the year, where tens of thousands of people were
affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people
their lives in Somalia in 2011. It will be the largest famine the
world has seen for many decades, with millions of
victims."<END QUOTE>
Saudi Arabia's young crown prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud has been
taking one extreme measure after another. He engineered the air, sea
and land blockade of Qatar in July, he engineered the isolation of
Lebanon, in the last week he arranged for hundreds of high-level
government and financial officials to be arrested, and possibly have
their assets confiscated, and he's engineered the air, sea and land
blockade of Yemen, putting millions of people at risk of starvation.
Saudi Arabia is in a generation Crisis era and apparently in a state
of complete desperation in fighting Iran, and we can really see that
its actions to the most extreme levels of atrocities. We've already
seen this in Syria, where the country's sociopathic Shia/Alawite
president Bashar al-Assad has used Sarin gas on innocent Sunni
civilians, and with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, has
committed genocide against innocent Sunni women and children in Syria.
And now it seems likely that Lebanon, which has always been a fragile
country anyway, will be pulled into the same Sunni-Shia proxy battles
as the other countries. In this generational Crisis era, the Mideast
civilization seems to be collapsing, plummeting into the same pit of
atrocities, slaughter and famine that has plagued it for centuries,
possibly for millennia.
Generational Dynamics predicts that the Mideast is headed for a major
regional war, pitting Sunnis versus Shias, Jews versus Arabs, and
various ethnic groups against each other. Generational Dynamics
predicts that in the approaching Clash of Civilizations world war, the
"axis" of China, Pakistan and the Sunni Muslim countries will be
pitted against the "allies," the US, India, Russia and Iran. BBC and
CNN and Washington Post
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri,
Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Bahrain,
Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Hamas,
Adel Al-Jubeir, Yemen, Houthis, King Khalid International Airport,
Mark Lowcock, Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- All Saudis ordered to leave Lebanon, as Hariri's fate is unknown
- Saudi Arabia blockades Yemen, threatening millions to die in famine
****
**** All Saudis ordered to leave Lebanon, as Hariri's fate is unknown
****
A poster depicting Saad al-Hariri, hanging in a neighborhood of his supporters in Beirut. The words say 'With you forever.' (Reuters)
While there aren't concerns that Saudi warplanes will be
flying over Lebanon tomorrow, the people of Lebanon are becoming
increasingly anxious over what Saudi Arabia is planning,
in view of the actions already taken.
On Thursday, Saudi Arabia ordered all Saudis in Lebanon to leave
immediately. Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE) followed suit
immediately. Bahrain had made a similar statement earlier.
This followed last week's completely unexpected resignation of
Lebanon's prime minister, Saad al-Hariri, a resignation made all the
more shocking by the fact that al-Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia and
issued the resignation announcement over television from the Saudi
capital city Riyadh.
In his resignation speech, al-Hariri denounced Iran and Iran's puppet
organization Hezbollah for sowing strife in countries around the
region. He also said that he feared that they were planning to
assassinate him, as they had assassinated his father with a bomb in
2005.
It's widely suspected among the people of Lebanon that al-Hariri is
being held in Saudi Arabia against his will. In Lebanon's capital
city Beirut, politicians of all parties, including al-Hariri's own
party, are demanding that Saudi Arabia release him and allow him to
return to Lebanon and explain why he resigned. Government officials
are saying that they will not accept al-Hariri's resignation until he
returns and reaffirms it.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir on Thursday explained
in an interview what was going on from the Saudi point of view. He
blamed the situation on Iran and Hezbollah, and on Hezbollah's
increasing control of the government of Lebanon:
<QUOTE>"Hezbollah put roadblocks in front of every initiative
that Prime Minister Hariri tried to implement. Hezbollah has
pretty much hijacked the Lebanese system. It has been the
instrument that Iran used to dominate Lebanon, the instrument that
Iran used to interfere with Syria, with Hamas, and with the
Houthis. We see Hezbollah’s mischief all over the region.
Hezbollah has been responsible for smuggling weapons into Bahrain.
Hezbollah is involved in criminal activity, such as drug dealing
and money laundering.
We are saying that the world has to make sure that we designate
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. There can be no difference
between a political wing and a militant wing. The world needs to
take action in terms of curtailing Hezbollah's activities, and the
world needs to push back against Hezbollah wherever they
operate. We cannot allow Lebanon to be a platform from which harm
comes to Saudi Arabia.
The Lebanese people have been dominated by Hezbollah and we need
to find a way to help the Lebanese people come out from under the
thumb of Hezbollah. We cannot allow Lebanon to be a base from
which attacks against Saudi Arabia can take place and we are
urging the Lebanese government in particular to take firm and
resolute action against Hezbollah."<END QUOTE>
Lebanese government officials, speaking anonymously, reject
Al-Jubeir's claim:
<QUOTE>"Keeping Hariri with restricted freedom in Riyadh is
an attack on Lebanese sovereignty. Our dignity is his dignity. We
will work with (foreign) states to return him to
Beirut."<END QUOTE>
Lebanon will ask foreign governments to pressure Saudi Arabia to
release al-Hariri.
What the people of Lebanon fear most is that their country will now
join Syria as the site of a proxy war between Shias, led by Iran,
versus Sunnis, led by Saudi Arabia. Arab News and
Newsweek and Reuters
****
**** Saudi Arabia blockades Yemen, threatening millions to die in famine
****
Saudi Arabia imposed land, sea and air blockades on Yemen, preventing
aid organizations from delivering food and medicines.
Yemen has been engulfed in a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and
Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2014. The war has already killed more
than 10,000 and displaced millions, with around 500,000 cholera cases
reported in the country since the worst outbreak in decades started in
April. Saudi Arabia has been bogged down in the war, making little
progress, and has already been accused of creating a humanitarian
disaster.
On Saturday last week, the Houthis launched a ballistic missile that
reached the King Khalid International Airport near Riyadh, about 800
km from the Yemen border. The Saudis were able to intercept it with
with a surface-to-air Patriot missile, but called it a 'dangerous escalation' in the war.
The missile
attack has been considered a game-changer in the war because it was
clearly an Iranian ballistic missile, and because of the distance it
traveled and its accuracy.
On Monday, Saudi Arabia responded by blockading all air, land
and sea routes into and out of Yemen, in order to prevent
Iran from sending weapons into Iran.
Yemen, which already was facing mass starvation and cholera cases,
imports 90% of all its food, and 100% of all its medicines.
Humanitarian organizations that have been supplying food and medicines
are now blocked from deliveries into Yemen.
On Wednesday, UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said that the
blockade would cause the worst famine since World War II:
<QUOTE>"It will not be like the famine that we saw in South
Sudan earlier in the year, where tens of thousands of people were
affected. It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people
their lives in Somalia in 2011. It will be the largest famine the
world has seen for many decades, with millions of
victims."<END QUOTE>
Saudi Arabia's young crown prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud has been
taking one extreme measure after another. He engineered the air, sea
and land blockade of Qatar in July, he engineered the isolation of
Lebanon, in the last week he arranged for hundreds of high-level
government and financial officials to be arrested, and possibly have
their assets confiscated, and he's engineered the air, sea and land
blockade of Yemen, putting millions of people at risk of starvation.
Saudi Arabia is in a generation Crisis era and apparently in a state
of complete desperation in fighting Iran, and we can really see that
its actions to the most extreme levels of atrocities. We've already
seen this in Syria, where the country's sociopathic Shia/Alawite
president Bashar al-Assad has used Sarin gas on innocent Sunni
civilians, and with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, has
committed genocide against innocent Sunni women and children in Syria.
And now it seems likely that Lebanon, which has always been a fragile
country anyway, will be pulled into the same Sunni-Shia proxy battles
as the other countries. In this generational Crisis era, the Mideast
civilization seems to be collapsing, plummeting into the same pit of
atrocities, slaughter and famine that has plagued it for centuries,
possibly for millennia.
Generational Dynamics predicts that the Mideast is headed for a major
regional war, pitting Sunnis versus Shias, Jews versus Arabs, and
various ethnic groups against each other. Generational Dynamics
predicts that in the approaching Clash of Civilizations world war, the
"axis" of China, Pakistan and the Sunni Muslim countries will be
pitted against the "allies," the US, India, Russia and Iran. BBC and
CNN and Washington Post
Related Articles
- Saudi Arabia and Lebanon face increasing instability as crises multiply (06-Nov-2017)
- Saad Hariri shocks Lebanon by resigning as PM while in Saudi Arabia (05-Nov-2017)
- Lebanon agrees on a unity government with Hezbollah (17-Nov-2009)
- Saudi Arabia says it will 'end major combat operations' in Yemen (18-Mar-2016)
- Iran brags that Sanaa Yemen is the fourth Arab capital they control (24-Sep-2014)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri,
Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Bahrain,
Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Hamas,
Adel Al-Jubeir, Yemen, Houthis, King Khalid International Airport,
Mark Lowcock, Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud
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