The United States can move the talks along by cutting off military sales to Saudi Arabia - immediately!
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The answer is to redivide Yemen into two countries as it was in the past.
The decision to honor a cease fire in Hudaydah shows us what a game war is - a deadly game. It may be a major step in relieving the suffering in Yemen, but it's a small step in the need to end all wars for good.
In the near future, we will program the human mind in the computer based on a linguistic "survival" algorithm, which will provide irrefutable proof as to how we trick the mind with our ridiculous beliefs about what is supposed to survive - producing minds programmed de facto for destruction. These minds would see the survival of a particular group of people or a belief as more important than the survival of all. When we have the computer mind to help us understand all this, we will begin the long trek back to reason and sanity.
See RevolutionOfReason.com
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The opening of the port of Hudaydah is the best news since Obama was elected in 2007.
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This is immoral war which is allowed to contenue with the help of the US and the Western and Islamic world. It is a war that was created by our new "he did not do it " prince of Saudi Arabia. The Islamic world is completely silent on the war. Few days ago, Egypt wast so "shaken" by a female reveling dress. But Egypt was not shaken by the killing and the starvation of Yaman. It is time for this war to stop.
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The article misses the point of the agreement from a military view. The port is the only way that Iran had of getting weapons to the Houthis. This is why they have defended it so dearly. If the UN takes over control then part of that will presumably be to stop the city being used as a conduit for weapons. However, the organization has a dismal record in such areas. When the Israeli-Hezbollah war ended the UN was to oversee the elimination of Hezbollah's military supplies and stop them from re-arming. This never happened.
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There is not excuse for inaction. We don't understand how some politicians can enjoy a wonderful Christmas dinner, while the children in Yemen are starving. Those beautiful children don't deserve what is happening to them.
No "Silent night. No Jolly night". No Calm. No food. Just the bright splendor of bombs is what they have.
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@M Martínez What we should focus on, how come all the Islamic world is silent about the war in Yaman.
@M Martínez... children dying here as well under the "care"of the Border Patrol" & the NRA we have a lot of blood on our hands...
Yemen unification regrettably failed. With Iraq and Syria relatively peaceful this had to happen, a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Sunni vs Shi'ite.
Almost seems when these folks aren't teaming up to fight outsiders, they fight among themselves... Catholic vs Protestant wars in Europe long ago come to mind.
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Both the past two American Presidents under George W Bush and Obama and their administrations and the current one are responsible for the Yemen Genocide trying to pursue an enemy that has been decimated and forgotten, we just cannot keep inventing new ones.
They are not only endless but with every bomb drop we make new ones, is this what we want?
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As soon as the Senste changes it’s decision peace occurred. Get tougher in Saudi Arabia and there will be more peace. The Prince killed a writer. Now they need to set up a real policy.
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What an amazing development! To the Times, or other readers, if you know how to make donations for the Yemenis people please post it here or in a new article.
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@PJ Doctors Without Borders is in Yemen. Go Online. Easy to donate. I have been donating for years.
@Nightwood,
Also International Rescue Committee, but yes,
yes, absolutely Drs. w/o Borders.
I would like to think that the U.S. Senate's repudiation of the president, and its action to cease American participation, played some role in loosening previously hardened positions. The timing would indicate, however, that it probably did not--and one hopes that with the cessation of U.S. contributions to the violence, it may be possible to build on this small (and probably quite fragile) step toward the restoration of real peace.
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For the United States to be making a profit off a humanitarian crisis, where we are ostensibly engaged to block Iran, is simply criminal.
We have no existential interests there. The conflict reflects a sectarian battle that goes back centuries.
Our participation is rooted in pure, old fashion greed...as it has been since the Ottoman Empire. Greed does not justify allowing the suffering to go on for one moment longer.
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