Risking a regional war
There are intensifying clouds of another regional war in the Middle-East centering control of Yemen. The UNO, the USA, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are pouring oil in flames instead of arbitrating in the civil war between the Sunni and the Shiite Militias.
When, on the one hand, the aforesaid three and the Gulf States are continuing indiscriminate bombing of Yemen to cripple the country’s economy, the USA, on the other hand, is sending an aircraft carrier and a guided missile ship to the coast of Yemen to give the civil war a shape of regional war.
Meanwhile, a Republican Congress man has urged the US President to drop bombs on the Iran’s nuclear installations. There is no surprise in it. We become surprised when we hear that Saudi King is ready to give air space to Israel for an attack on Teheran.
To Saudi Arabian monarch, an overwhelming Muslim state like Iran is more hazardous than a Zionist State like Israel, which has been evicting Muslims from their fatherland since 1948.
Our point is, if the USA, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have right to arm Sunni troops, then why others can’t be able to supply arms to the Shiite Militias?
But what we understand is that a Lebanon like government can resolve the crisis in Yemen. Certainly, Lebanon is the best example of peaceful co-existence between the Christians, the Sunni and the Shiite Muslims.
Will the OIC take the lead?
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
