Yemen truce – An extension swallowed up Houthi illusions
Extending the truce in Yemen has put Houthi militias in the face of their lies and made them angry with their followers in a fall that engulfs them.
The putschists militias, which have addicted to lies and justifications to promote their plans, find themselves once again naked in the face of an avalanche of cynicism and criticism, and the media attack that affected their elements, activists, and deep cells, after they raised the ceiling of their conditions to accept the renewal of the truce before announcing its extension under the same conditions.
The militias raised the slogan “No to the extension of the truce”, claiming that it was a “disappointing experience”, and insisted on impossible conditions, including the payment of salaries by the legitimate Government to employees in areas under its control and to military combatants in its ranks.
Not only did its conditions apply to the “salaries” sign, which its leaders are stealing and turning into spoils to finance the incinerators of death, but it also placed arbitrary demands related to the uncontrolled opening of Sanaa airport and Hodeida port, even though it had previously agreed to the first version of the UN truce agreement.
Deadlock
Prominent leader Mehdi al-Machat spoke during his meeting with the Omani delegation about what he called “the full and immediate opening of Sanaa airport, the port of Hodeidah, and the payment of salaries to all employees from oil and gas revenues.”
According to politicians and observers, what the activists and militia leaders were talking about was aimed at obtaining recognition of the coup and the Houthi militias as governor and representative of northern Yemen. The “followers of the rebels considered a clear victory and a final victory in the war”, and the announcement of the extension of the truce was a strong shock to those who embrace an imaginary victory.
“The militia’s leaders quickly tried to justify their defeat after escalating media rhetoric and displays of militia military force on the ground, with a position announced by the group’s spokesman, Mohammed Abdussalam Feliteh, hinting at Omani pressure behind agreeing to extend the truce in a fallacy that exposed the Houthi predicament before his followers.”
A Houthi activist called Jamal Wajieddine responded to the militia saying, “The Yemeni know who agreed to and extended the truce, so you have to pay salaries, lower prices, and stop revenues, collections, taxes and fees in schools and universities. You have to take full responsibility.”
Fake gains
Yemeni experts believe that the renewal of the truce has put the Houthi militias in a dilemma with their followers, to resort to the media to promote imaginary gains. They confirmed that the extension of the truce gives the Presidential Council an opportunity to complete the arrangement of its cards to liberate the north of the country.
Said Bakran, a researcher who specializes in terrorist groups in Yemen, said he believes the truce was agreed to another two months under the same conditions as the previous truce, without adding new flights and destinations from Sanaa and without agreeing on salaries, contrary to what the Houthis are promoting.
Regarding the new and expanded UN proposal, Bakran said that it “will allow a longer truce of six months and include proposed trips and salary arrangements, but this expanded proposal is still under negotiation.”
The political researcher pointed out that the media of the Houthi militias promotes their extraction with new gains, which is not true, as the new extension was announced without any new additions and under the same terms of the previous truce that ended Tuesday evening.
“The only beneficiary of the current truce – if it is properly exploited and properly understood – is the legitimate northern partner in the presidential council, Marib, Mocha and Taiz, or in other words the national army and the national resistance forces,” he said.
“This party was the one that was losing the land, and it is the party that is divided against itself first, and that was involved in a conflict with the south,” he said. “The truce gives this party a valuable opportunity to arrange its military cards in the north and its relationship with its alliances after years of confusion.”
“The truce allows the national army and the national resistance to arrange its relationship with the south and to agree with its southern partners in the presidential council on military, security and administrative issues to ensure southern backing” to recapture the north from the Iranian-backed Houthi coup, he said.
Earlier, the UN announced a two-month extension of the truce in Yemen, half an hour after the truce that came into effect on April 2 ended and was renewed for the second time on June 2.
The truce provided for commercial flights through Sana’a airport, the flow of fuel through the port of Hodeidah, and the lifting of the siege of Taiz, but the latter item is being challenged by the intransigence of Houthi militias.
