Peace...the thread that weakened legitimacy!

With mounting external pressure on the Houthi militia, the US designation of the group as a foreign terrorist organization, and the subsequent sanctions targeting Houthi political figures, institutions, and centers of commercial and economic influence, as well as the banning of its funding sources and internal and external financial flows, there is still talk of an impending peace with the group and the possibility of its relevance to the Yemeni issue. This is despite the fact that this contradicts the nature of the designation, which criminalizes the possibility of negotiating with it, according to international political literature.

It is very risky to try to lead the peace process to cross the Yemeni political geography and drag it through its corners, and force the land and people to sip it, despite the fact that all the data and the divergence of goals between the conflicting components of the interior do not bode well for the possibility of peace finding a foothold on the ground or occurring in the minds of those concerned with it as an unlikely idea or as a daydream that competes with the nightmares and obsessions of killing and destruction that dominate the thinking, behavior, and language used politically.

It is pathetic that the Yemeni legitimacy has emptied all its political and historical responsibility on the thread of fading peace, and appeared idealistic to the point of weakness in its adherence to it in the eyes of regional and international opinion, adopting it as the best way to overcome its Houthi opponent and force him to submit to its usurped demands. Every time it takes an escalatory step to escape its curse, it is forced to return to it as if it were a garment tailored to its size and nothing else suits it, as happened with its backing down from the bank’s decisions and it paid a heavy price for its retreat under pressure from the UN envoy, whose mission is limited to restricting the legitimacy, curbing its escalation and distancing it from the group’s path.

It is worth noting that all the peace rounds that the group has accepted have not gone beyond prisoner exchange deals, and anything less than that seems intractable in its view. What is strange is that whenever the complication lasts and the moment of political despair regarding the Yemeni issue, both internally and externally, arrives, there is a faint whisper denouncing peace by the UN envoy and all concerned parties, to no avail. It seems that this is a means of saving the group and getting it out of every predicament until it overcomes the state of discontent with it, and then it returns to its arrogance again, as if nothing had happened. The two parties go their own way, and events continue to escalate, battles break out, and circles of violence and confrontations expand until this moment.

In this turbulent context, waves of anger erupt and the voice of Yemeni groans resounds whenever the international and regional community wants to introduce peace as a system of solutions that swallows up the roots of the complex Yemeni problems with multiple aspects and outcomes, such that it is difficult to cram them all in a bottle of peace - in the style of Aladdin's lamp - and end the Yemeni war in a magical moment, while ignoring the flow of the river of conflict, fragmentation and the exacerbation of disagreement in every joint of the Yemeni entity and the fragmented issue that makes it impossible to gather all the entities and drag them to a single point of agreement.

What makes matters worse is the contradictory and confusing political cocooning of the parties, the exploitation of the whole for the benefit of the part, and the attainment of ambitions by remaining with the single presidential entity and acting according to individual whims, like someone who exhausts the energy of the elder so that the younger can grow up and become empowered and divided. This is a confusing, frightening and mysterious matter as long as the situation is shocking and surprising and it is difficult to understand, comprehend or track its objectives.