After reading a front page news in the Jewish ‘The Wall Street Journal’ (October 31, 2009) – I am convinced that the officials in the US State Department are true believers in the Scofield Bible. How else they would have bent backward to save 60 Yemeni Jews in a “secret mission” – rather than rescuing the lives of thousands of Yemeni Christians and even American citizens traped in the war-torn Yemen.

According to WSJ – these 60 Yemeni Jews (350 total Jews among country’s 23 million population), dressed in Turban and Burka, traveled to nation’s capital San’a’ – and from there, the US State Department put them on a plane – surprisingly, destined not to Israel – but the US. This is largest western-sponsored Jew-rescue mission since 1949-50 “Operation Magic Carpet”, when close to 49,000 Yemeni Jews were airlifted to Israel.

Washington’s double standard are obvious – considering the plight of common Yemeni citizens as the result of the USrael proxy wars in the region. Mahmoud Kabil, the UNICEF’s ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ for the Middle East and North Africa, was quoted by IRIN on October 20, 2009: “I saw children in al-Mazraq refugee camp (Northwest of Sanaa) on the brink of death due to acute malnutrition and dehydration. I have never seen such a sight since I became UNICEF regional Goodwill Ambassador in 2003…”

Yemen has more strategic importance to Israel than the US. That’s why Obama, not only sent General David Petraeus to Yemen to show his support for the beleaguered regime of president Ali Abdullah Saleh in July but last month wrote a personal letter to president Saleh that Yemen is “vital to the region and the US”.

Currently, Sanaa is carrying out the genocide of Yemen Shia majority (Zaidis) in the Saada province bordering USrael buddy Saudi Arabia. The Zaidi resistance against the pro-American government of President Saleh goes back to 2004 when the Shia leaders demaded equal rights for the Sa’dah and Amran provinces with overwhelming Shia majority. Presiden Saleh, in return, has accused the Zaidi leaders for planning to revive the old Zaidi Shia Imamate which was overthrown in a communist military coup (supported by both Egypt and Israel) in 1962. This Imamate existed between 837-1962. Zaidyyah is the closest Shia ‘School of Thought’ to the majority Sunni Islam.

According to UN report – since Saleh’s latest military action against the Zaidi tribes – 50,000 people have been made refugees – making 150,000 refugees since June 2004. Tehran has offered its services to resolve the conflict between the San’a and the Ziadi resistance groups.

Rannie Amiri in his 2008 article, titled Yemeni Daggers Unsheathed, wrote:

“Indeed, the struggle of al-Houthi’s forces in North Yemen is not unlike that of Hezbollah in Lebanon (Shia), Hamas in Gaza (Sunni) and Muqtada al-Sadr’s followers in Baghdad (Shia). All have demanded an end to the colussion between the ruling authority and the United State and Israel; endured or are at present enduring a humanitarian crisis; accused of being under Iranian influence, and feared by the leaders of the Sunni Arab states for using the ballot box to achieve political legitimacy.

The one distinguishing feature is what little attention the Sa’dah Zaidis have received. Of the many hardships they continue to face, neglet of their plight should not be made one of them.”

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