Ideology: “Separatism”

Definitely not a foreign backed group for the express purpose of weakening a rival country.

Whenever I see vague descriptions of some militant group’s objective, ideology, etc, I’m reminded about Ghassan Kanafani’s interview with a Western Journalist.

Interviewer: “… Why not talk?”

Kanafani: “Talk about what?”

Interviewer: “Talk about the possibility of not fighting?”

Kanafani: “not fighting for what?”

Interviewer: “not fighting at all, no matter what for.”

Kanafani: “Yani, people usually fight for something, and they stop fighting for something. So you can’t tell me, why should we even speak about… Talk about stop fighting, why?”

The words, “people fight for something and stop fighting for something” perfectly encapsulate the how the West attempts to deceive its citizens through the media by never describing the reason people are fighting against whatever US adversary exists in that scenario.

In this case, “Separatism” only implies the want to fight, but doesn’t discuss any ideological reason why they’d want to fight. This group says they oppose various factions but to what end? Perhaps the people on this group have motivations but they aren’t being revealed to any Wikipedia browser through the ideology of “Separatism” and I quite honestly don’t suspect these people believe they are separating for the sake of it.

I just don’t get how other Americans just never interrogate the motivations of their government’s enemies when I’ve seen them become needlessly conspiratorial against even the most benign positive news/movement. It’s as if the capacity to criticize is only refined for the most specific purpose.

Southern Movement Forces supported by the Pentagon UAE fight against Hadi official government forces supported by CIA Saudi Arabia

The Yemeni Socialist Party (Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي اليمني, al-Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Yamani, YSP), officially the Socialist Party Organization (Arabic: منظمة الحزب الاشتراكي), is a social democratic political party in Yemen. A successor of Yemen’s National Liberation Front, it was the ruling party in South Yemen until Yemeni unification in 1990. Originally Marxist–Leninist, the party has gradually evolved into a social democratic opposition party in today’s unified Yemen.

Following the outbreak of the Yemeni Civil War, the party split into two factions; one remained in Yemen and labelled itself the “YSP – Anti-Aggression” and declared its loyalty to the Houthis and their leader Abd al-Malik al-Houthi, while much of the party’s leadership, including Abdulrahman al-Saqqaf and Yasin Said Numan, went into exile in Riyadh and backed the government of Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. After the split, the “Anti-Aggression” faction issued statements that they consider the leadership in Riyadh to have been expelled from the party for of their support of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, calling for their punishment as a result.

The “Anti-Aggression” faction declared its opposition to the Saudi-led coalition, vowing to aid the Houthis in defeating it. Notably, this faction of the YSP actively helped facilitate the Houthi entry into Ta’izz during the battle for the city, one of the YSP’s historic centers. In 2016, it denounced the United Nations for removing Saudi Arabia from the list of countries responsible for harming children. They also condemned the Trump administration’s decision to designate the Houthis as a terrorist group.

Its UAE coping because they cannt defeat the houthis, so they try to take away at least part of the country.