Comment on the new bloc in Aden

Recently, a number of political parties and regional blocs held a meeting in Aden, a conference that no one had heard of, that did not receive any attention from the Yemeni people, and that no one, except those in charge of it, relied on to establish a new bloc in the name of political parties.

This event is reminiscent - with a vast difference, of course, in several other aspects - of the announcements of the emergence of blocs in the squares of the peaceful revolution in 2011 in several governorates, especially in Sana'a. At that time, the number of names and banners that were in the revolution square in Sana'a reached more than 1000 components and blocs.

For many reasons, the most important of which were economic, weak intellectual and political visions, and lack of organizational experience, these blocs in the squares of the revolution had no significant impact on what happened later. The funny thing about these meetings and blocs in the squares of the revolution - despite the sincerity and loyalty of most of the youth at that time - was that these blocs, through their actions, were seeking to attract funding for themselves and their activities in the square, and to try to demonstrate their presence and vision, and to seek to influence the future. In the end, they were unable to survive or influence.

The blocs that emerged during the war belong primarily to the parties holding what remained and what emerged from new authority in the liberated areas. They are social, political, economic and military factions, undemocratic. Every now and then we hear about a conference here and a bloc there, which quickly disappears. There is no explanation for these announcements and blocs and their death other than that they meet at some point to obtain certain funds, new positions, and to strengthen their positions and increase their resources, even if they reside abroad. In fact, most of these blocs that have emerged have their leaders residing mostly abroad and leave their supporters to be crushed by hunger, poverty and lack of services at home.

In the case of the recent bloc in Aden, the matter is clear. USAID, the US State Department's tool for distributing aid, apparently has a surplus of money that was not liquidated in the 2024 budget. It liquidated it in the name of this bloc, and did not find anyone cheaper than the Yemeni political leaders who were the reasons for the defeat in 2011 and beyond, especially in 2014. They are the reasons for the defeat during the war years, and they are the reasons for the defeat so far. It found them a suitable opportunity to spend its money on them in the name of the bloc. It is expected, as is certainly known every time, that those gathered in Aden will quickly return to their voluntary exile, with their money and investments abroad, after a few days of staying in Aden, until they receive the financial grants that will be distributed to them.

It appears from some statements that those leaders participating in this meeting or bloc, entered into disputes with each other about who participates and who does not, and statements began tonight from some leaders of the participating components, objecting to what happened. Statements of objection as usual for national reasons. The truth is clear: he did not have a share of the revenues of the alleged bloc. The same applies to the position of the Transitional Council towards it, which remained silent in the face of the prestige and money of the United States Agency for International Development, and allowed the meeting, forced and not of its own free will, so its position appears to be in the worst condition, and at this point specifically the Yemeni crisis appears to be in its worst darkness, and the Yemeni future is darker than the future of the children of Gaza who are being killed around the clock by the most heinous Zionist-Western crimes. The Yemeni crisis is located between the jaws of the Iranian occupation and the Houthi militia on the one hand, and the cheapness, tyranny and factionalism of the Yemeni government on the other hand, and between the two parties there is poverty, high prices, hunger, roadblocks, siege and the collapse of the currency that grinds the Yemeni people mercilessly, until it has lost the ability to speak.