E. Michael Jones: Saudis ‘very vulnerable’ amid Yemen war

Press TV has conducted an interview with E. Michael Jones, an editor at Culture Wars Online Magazine in Indiana, to discuss Riyadh’s possible reaction to a humanitarian aid flotilla headed for war-torn Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription.

Press TV: Before I get into the flotilla and the ship for Yemen and Gaza respectively, I like to get your opinion first of all, of the parallels people are drawing between Israeli siege and aggression on Gaza in the past and the Saudi aggression against Yemen?

Jones: The big question is whether the Saudis are going to use deadly force to repel the ship. If they do then they are putting themselves into the same category as the regime in Israel. I don’t see that happening, but it is impossible at this point to say what is going to happen.

Press TV: I wanted to get your opinion on the parallels that many are drawing between the Saudi aggression of Yemen and the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Do you see similarities in the ways those two aggressions have been carried out?

Jones: The big difference is that the Palestinians had their back up against the wall. They were totally defenseless against Israelis, and the military situation in Yemen I think is the opposite. I think the Houthis are now threatening, from what I’ve heard, that they have occupied the heights that would allow them to shell the Saudis. So that is the difference of the situation; the Houthis are a military force that it needs to be reckoned with up against a Saudi force that has basically nothing on the ground. It is an air force without an army. And they have been desperately trying to get other people to fight their war for them because they just don’t have an army, they don’t have the people to support the country. So the Pakistanis turned them down when they were asked for troops, the Egyptians turned them down; so I think that the difference is that the Saudis are in a very precarious situation. You can’t win a war with just an air force. And that is all they have.

Press TV: Indeed. And now as the aid is being dispatched for Gaza and Yemen, how important do you think such moves are in bringing the attention of the world to the plight of people of Palestine, of Yemen, and wherever the oppressed may be?

Jones: I think the Saudis are very vulnerable in this situation, because everyone knows they in fact are in alliance with Israel in supporting groups like ISIS and supporting the other side in the Syria fight. So now the ships up the ante because if they stop, if they use deadly force on these ships, then they will put themselves exactly in the same situation that the Israelis are in, which is to say as a criminal regime that is using deadly force against people bringing humanitarian aid. So I think the Saudis are in a very vulnerable position at this point.

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