Agree with @SenToddYoung on last-minute terrorist designation of Houthi Movement. Houthi commanders need to be held accountable, but designating the whole organization will only inflict more suffering on Yemeni people and impede diplomacy critical to end the war.
Today’s decision by @SecPompeo to declare the Houthi movement in Yemen as a terrorist organization is yet another misstep in the United States’ years long misguided approach to the conflict in Yemen.
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@jakejsullivan It seems your MENA plan is the following. 1) Destabilise US allies under the pretext of protecting “human rights”. 2) Embolden the ayatollah, the main sponsor of terrorism and its proxies who are killing thousands of innocents, recruiting children and chanting death to America!
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Houthis have targeted civilian-inhabited areas with +400 ballistic missiles, indiscriminately planting mines resulting in killing & maiming civilians, kidnapped & tortured journalists, and their slogan is “death to America”, yet you still doubt whether they are a terrorist org?!
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung #USA Are we going back to exonerating & appeasing the Iranian regime and its sectarian militias??!! Thats really shameful...
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung I lived to see the day an American leadership is soft on an organisation that chant daily « death to America ». A shameful start of @JoeBiden presidency. Oh, and please don’t hide behind the Yemeni people and claim you care about their suffering!
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung If it wasn’t for the theocratic nature of these rulers, ME countries would not have fallen into crisis & famine. It wouldn’t help to always negotiate in the top-down approach, sometimes helping the bottom-up to change the ones at the top would save you time in diplomacy talks.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Please please undo this! And we need to stop helping the Saudis attack Yemen. It's unconscionable. The starvation is genocidal.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Just call out Pompeo’s madness and it should all be reversed on Jan 20 not to let his criminal legacy continue to haunt the US and the world.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung It is laughable to think the whole Houthis organisation is not anti-America. Even their kids were taught to hate America from childhood
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U.S forces in the Persian Gulf and Iran's IRGC must inevitably be in contact to avoid misreadings & military escalation. The terrorist designation of IRGC - a sovereign state's formal armed forces - was also a misstep, which in addition, also undermined the basic tenets of IHL.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Sir, the Houthis, one family from a small sect of the people of that family sold themselves to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and followed a different approach to the sect and the people. They kidnap Sanaa at gunpoint
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Calling the #Houti terrorist is only a small part of the strategy - for peace in Yemen we need a more holistic approach...
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Can the two of you lay in out what differentiates the Houthi’s, from, let’s say, Hamas in Gaza?
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung The Houthie’s slogan is terrorism, regardless of his daily crimes against the Yemeni people.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung In fact, the American decision is right and just, tough it is late. It outlines the reality of these militias. We hope Biden administration won't begin by supporting terrorists. You should support this decision, which defends the Yemenis persecuted by this terrorist militia.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung That won't work. You r so lenient when it comes to Iran and it's terrorist militias.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung You are prolonging the end of the war in our country and increasing the suffering of the Yemeni people.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung ISIS, AQ, Hezbollah, Hamas....and the Houthies are fundamental Islamist terrorist movements. There is NOTHING the USA could do to engage with them in a positive manner. Sorry, but this is reality. Not illusions. Not a movie.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung You know that Al-Houthi is a terrorist group and that it has displaced and killed Yemenis and caused harm to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and you continue to tolerate it, you condemn the war of Russia and not the actions of Al-Houthi and Iran
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Houthi slogan: "Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Iranian regime is a well known enemy of pease in general, master in terrorism and gross human rights violator seeking nuclear bombs. How much facts anyone may need after 40 years of appeasing policy with this outdated regime caused & cost #Iran & Iranian, #MiddleEast & the world.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung We’ve seen this movie before. In some European countries, Hezbollah politicians are considered OK but Hezbollah fighters are labeled as terrorists. They are all part & parcel of the same “movement.” You can’t pick & choose between the flattering & ugly sides of the same devil.
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@jakejsullivan @emptywheel @SenToddYoung Hopefully that decision can be reversed soon (as it should).
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung How about holding the Saudis accountable? I hear the French partisans did some pretty nasty stuff during World War II, but back then the United States recognized the difference between those defending their country and those invading a country.
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@jakejsullivan @Lindarefugee @SenToddYoung We feel the pain of our Yemeni brothers caught up in a senseless war because we’re going through it. WE ALSO need immediate diplomacy to end #TigrayGenocide. 10,000s killed, millions being starved to death. #BidenTakeAction
@JoeBiden @ABlinken @KamalaHarris @AmbassadorRice
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung How'd this beauty of a comment age, @JakeSullivan46 ?? #FireJakeSullivan
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung نحن في اليمن نعيش في مأساة سببها تصلب الحوثيين ورفضهم المطلق لأي حل سياسي ينهي الحرب التي بدأوها منذ سنوات طويلة .. هل ستقوم ادارة بايدن بحسم هذه المسألة أم سيبقى دورها سلبياً مثل ادارة #ترامب وتكتفي ببيع السلاح للسعودية ؟!
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Damn Jake, you could have been great. Young, experienced, able to connect with Americans… bummer your entire legacy is forever tied with that of a Genocide. 📰Today, US bombs were used in an attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria. Time to 25, Biden is not fit to serve.
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@jakejsullivan @SenToddYoung Myanmar has been yet again forced out of a Democratic progression , allowing millions of lives to lose their freedom and rights ( and all during global pandemic ). This is a military coup happening in 2021. We need global attention.we need world leaders to help us.#SaveMyanmar
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@jakejsullivan @milanimohsen @SenToddYoung Houthi don’t have military base, live among civilian if they start a war, they should be call terrorist. Saudis said Houthi and Iranian pasdaran threaten their security used article 51 UN charter to defense her. It comes to whose fault is it in this war.
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