The Satan's deal, Sacrificing Yemen for a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel
In an article published by the Hill site, close to Congress, the writer R David Harden noted that the US was quick to present a gift to Saudi Arabia in exchange for a normalization deal with the Israeli occupation.
The gift, which the outgoing administration of US President Donald Trump will present in the last weeks of power, is that Al-Houthi's group in Yemen may be classified as a foreign terrorist organization, making any support to the group a federal crime.
Trump's administration wants to classify Al-Houthi's group as a terrorist organization in a way to a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and the Israeli occupation entity
As for the American administration, the classification does not need much explanation, as Washington considers the group a bad party, and it seeks to punish the organization, weaken Iran, strengthen Saudi Arabia and support the Yemeni government, but in fact, As the author of the article adds, this maneuver is likely to destabilize the Arabian Peninsula.
Al-Houthi group controls the Yemeni capital Sanaa, besides the main provisions and vital infrastructure necessary for the survival of most of the civilian population in Yemen, and this classification will ban, according to the article, the group's material support, including food dealers, medicines, sewage supplies, humanitarian aids and commodities, and under the Koruna epidemic. That means more pockets of famine and a collapse of purchasing power.
There are other unexpected risks, according to Harden’s conclusions. For example, the UN could face challenges in mitigating the massive oil spill, owing to the need to negotiate with the group on the incident, which would close the main port of al-Hudaydah, thereby further disrupting food supplies in Yemen. Who faces the worst human crisis in the world
R David Harden, a former director at the agency's U.S. Bureau for International Development, pointed out that Al-Houthi's group defeated Saudi Arabia, despite enormous human losses and, in some cases, managed to control some Saudi territories and continued to launch raids on Saudi cities and sites.
On its part, the Saudi Trump administration is pushing for normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation entity, before Trump's departure from the White House, but the writer noted that Saudi Arabia needs to restore its relations with the elected president Joe Biden's administration, where Biden was clear that Yemen's tragedy should end. There is a consensus in Congress that Saudi Arabia has a major responsibility in Yemen’s ongoing war, and there is also a bipartisan recognition that classifying the group as a terrorist organization will further destabilize the country.
With regard to the entity of the Israeli occupation, the writer says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself needs to rectify his path with the Biden administration, and it is not expected that Biden has forgotten what Netanyahu has done before. During a visit to Tel Aviv in 2010, he included him announcing the construction of more Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank despite opposition from the Obama administration, and Netanyahu sought to humiliate Obama and his deputy Biden by delivering a speech in Congress opposing the Iranian nuclear deal.