(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "The dedication of the revolutionary youths there [Yemen]... is what Israel will fear, that dedication will be what their Saudi allies will fear as well," Peter Rushton said,
Rushton warned that Yemen stands on the "threshold of a bloody chaos" but said there is hope for the people of the country as President Ali Abdullah has been left with very few friends.
"Even the key players and key tribal chiefs, notably the al-Ahmar family with whom he is now in a tense military standoff, no longer trust a word he says," he said.
The observer, however, expressed doubts about the restoration of peace in Yemen as long as Saleh remains in power.
Rushton pointed out that Israel is also worried that it might lose its key ally in the Middle East, namely the Saudi royal family.
He described Israel's biggest concern in this issue as how to maintain the autocratic rule in Saudi Arabia which "more than most [Middle Eastern countries] has so often given rhetorical lip service to anti-Zionism.”
That is "because Israel's continued legitimacy, such as they claim, Israel's continued blank check to continue its war crimes in Gaza [and] to continue its criminal settlements [in the West Bank], depend on having that corrupt Saudi autocracy dominating a large part of the region," the observer noted.
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