On the anniversary of the February Revolution

The Houthis have been preparing with all their might to launch a new invasion of the liberated areas for years, and Iranian preparations for it have increased since the liberation of Syria early last December, and several local factors have intensified for it to launch the invasion as a result of the collapse of the Presidential Council, or at least its paralysis of effectiveness and its preoccupation with personal conflicts to divide what remains of the wreckage of the state among its members.

Months ago, no one was mentioning the Syrian revolution, 14 years after it was crushed by the alliance of the Russians, the Revolutionary Guards, Assad, Hezbollah militias, and Shiite militias, including the Houthi militia. But as soon as the process of deterring aggression began in the name of the Syrian revolution, its flames flared up in the conscience of the Syrian people.

When the Aggression Deterrence Room launched its military operation, it found no unifying framework for it other than the Syrian revolution. It was not just a slogan for achieving victory, but also had implications that were evident in the method of control and the method of governance, and most importantly, it opened the door wide for the Syrian people to build their future.

In the face of the intractable challenges in Yemen, for more than a decade, there is no horizon to overcome the challenges facing the Yemeni state as a whole except to build on the February Revolution and the literature and determinants it produced. At the same time, this literature, agreements and developments also work to solve the problems of the Yemeni forces themselves, provided that every force, group, party, person and official believes that the most important thing that the February Revolution wanted was true democracy that protects and guarantees the interests of the entire people, and embodies their true interests, not the interests of the factions that control these forces.

For example, the most important person who should think about future paths is the Leadership Council. The Leadership Council consists of eight members, but the Leadership Council in its current form and its administration, which is nearly three years old, is facing the dilemma of fading and collapse.

The Leadership Council was unable to remain in Aden, to administer the state from there, and to agree on almost anything except what Aidarous al-Zubaidi wanted, by secretly issuing republican decrees that are not published in the official gazette. However, Aidarous was also unable to do almost anything at the level of infrastructure, services, salaries, and the effectiveness of the state institutions that he wants to secede from in the south. The horrific collapse of almost everything is limitless, and there is no horizon for these people to remain except by starting from the February Revolution.

Most members stand against the revolution, for various reasons, and never mention it, nor do they rely on it, and they show strong hostility towards it, despite its merits to them. However, the contents of the revolution establish the basis for solving many of the dilemmas facing the country, the Leadership Council, and all the political, social, and economic forces inside.

The most prominent content of the February Revolution was to strengthen democracy, respond to popular demands and go beyond controlled partial democracy. By returning to this principle and embodying it on the ground, Rashad Al-Alimi, for example - who is the weakest figure in the Leadership Council - will possess popular power that will enable him to manage the Leadership Council instead of attacking the people and describing and mocking popular demands as "populism" as he said in an interview in Hadhramaut last year, and it will reduce his absolute dependence on the outside and give him room to move.

The contents of the revolution give the people the ability to reorganize themselves. Without popular political organizations, it is impossible to confront the Houthis, manage the state, or face the various economic and social challenges. The anniversary of the revolution gives an opportunity to the Yemeni elites at all levels to think about their future on sound foundations to face the challenges, including the challenge of confronting the Houthis, defending the Republic of September 26, and the future of the Yemenis.