How fighting Al-Qaeda in Yemen, will force the Arabs to normalize relations with Israel!

Despite the calls from many writ­ers and schol­ars argu­ing that aid­ing the Yemeni gov­ern­ment will only worsen the situation:

- Help Yemen, not its gov­ern­ment.

- Yemen inter­ven­tion risks rip­ple effect.

The U.S. insists on help­ing the Yemeni gov­ern­ment financially.

What the so called experts won’t tell you about Yemen, is that it is the “biggest” Anti-American coun­try in the Mid­dle East. I never met a sin­gle Yemeni man or woman who you can call “mod­er­ate” (accord­ing to the west­ern def­i­n­i­tion) ~ You can watch yes­ter­day BBC — Michael Portillo’s Clos­ing Guan­tanamo (tor­rent) to prove my point.

The unde­clared dimen­sions of fight­ing Al-Qaeda in Yemen:

- Al-Qeda pres­ence in Soma­lia is much stronger, but there are no calls from Lon­don and Wash­ing­ton to inter­na­tion­al­ize the sit­u­a­tion in Somalia.

- The pres­ence of Al-Qaeda in the Saudi Ara­bia and Yemen is not new, and there were no seri­ous con­fronta­tions against the orga­ni­za­tion from both countries.

- It seems that the involve­ment of Al-Qaeda in the Iraqi con­flict dur­ing the past years, has post­poned of the con­fronta­tions the Gulf-States and Yemen, and the clear­est indi­ca­tions of this, that hun­dreds of Saudis and other Gulf-States have been detected as Al-Qaeda activists in Iraq.

- There are hun­dreds of al-Qaeda mem­bers in Yemen, and they are present with the approval of the Yemeni authorities.

- The Yemeni author­i­ties used to wage arrest cam­paigns against al-Qaeda mem­bers. After receiv­ing the U.S. aid, they are released, to be arrested again, and this sce­nario goes on repeat­edly for sev­eral years.

- The Saudi author­i­ties con­tin­ued to pres­sure the Saudi-Al-Qaida (and non-Saudis), within the King­dom, but, what is inter­est­ing; is that the Saudi author­i­ties ignored or tried to ignore the increas­ing pres­ence of Al-Qaeda in Yemen. The Saudi author­i­ties pushed Al-Qaeda to go to Yemen a safe haven.

- There are 40 — 50 Saudi Al-Qaeda lead­ers in the orga­ni­za­tion (accord­ing to Saudi news­pa­per Okaz).

- Pak­istani intel­li­gence also involved in many of the depor­ta­tion of Al-Qaeda mem­bers to Yemen, cre­at­ing the impres­sion that Yemen will be a new safe haven, which helps reduce the risk of con­cen­tra­tion of the orga­ni­za­tion mem­bers in Pakistan.

The increas­ing pres­sure on Al Qaeda in the Arab Penin­sula (or in Yemen), will be auto­mat­i­cally trans­fers the “bat­tle arena” to Saudi Ara­bia and the Gulf-States, and that will pro­vide a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the U.S. to con­cen­trate its pres­ence in Saudi Ara­bia and the Gulf-States. Most likely to be used to obtain the accep­tance of the Gulf coun­tries to coop­er­ate with Israel in “counter-insurgency” oper­a­tions, and lead to nor­mal­ize the rela­tions with Israel.