In its editorial The Guardian, a British newspaper, blamed Britain for the Saudi-UAE attack on the Yemeni city of Hodeidah. The newspaper blames the British, US and French weapons for many crimes against civilians in Yemen, and recently for the help of Western military training and advice. British and US officers were in the air raid command room that directed stikes on civilians targets, according to the article. The aggression is waging war with diplomatic protection from the West, the paper said. The U K and the US have blocked the Swedish campaign to issue a statement from the United Nations Security Council to demand a ceasefire.
“The excuses have been completely reversed about our role in Yemen’s misery,” the paper stated. The attack by the US-Saudi Aggression on Hodeidah only deepens the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. 70 percent of the country’s imports pass through the port.
The attack was an attempt to derail the peace plan by UN envoy Martin Griffith, who had earlier warned that the attack on Hodeidah could “bring peace out of the table with a single blow.”
The Guardian highlights a very important fact about the US-Saudi Aggression against Yemen by referring to the contradictory position of the western countries. At the same time these countries countie to appoint themselves as the defener of human rights they continue to be essential players in the Aggression. The article concluded by saying that “the suffering mounting, further unsettling this unstable region and breeding cynicism and rage towards the west and its talk of human rights and international law. If the complicity ever looked deniable, events of recent days have laid it bare.”
It is not new for the UK and US media to admit the extent of their governments’ involvement in the aggression against Yemen, as there is a high probability that these governments will be involved in war crimes against Yemenis. The Western media in general and the British media in particular are involved in the continues extortion of the Saudis and eventually publish propaganda that serves the aggression on Yemen when obtaining financial benefits from Saudis and the Gulf countries.
Finaly, it is not surprising that this article is a part of their attempt to improve the British media image among the British public and manipulating the public’s opinion after the level of British participation in the aggression on Yemen. British media could be only trying to maintain the credibility of the British media.