FSAD posted:Eminent Historian - "I see this as the beginning of a great civil war, a civil war between two historically opposed and irrreconcilable branches of a religion which are split among different nations or "countries" if you will. A civil war between two or more of these different "countries" with different "religions" to put it simply. *puffs on pipe*"
truly a war that pits brother against brother. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/blues-musician-to-un-yemen-done-me-wrong,1083/
"This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears, and even more than that," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu referred to advances made by Houthi rebels allied to Tehran in Yemen, and accused the Islamic republic of trying to "conquer the entire Middle East".
"The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is very dangerous to humanity, and must be stopped," he said.
i wonder if anyone in the room cracked up when he said "the Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis." i bet no one did. this is why the world needs Sam Kris
tpaine posted:getfiscal's life takes place within the tommy westphall universe
i hadn't heard of that before so i just read the wiki about it. good times.
discipline posted:In Saudi Arabia it's illegal to disobey your father and now they are going to invade Yemen.
Wait... are the fathers invading Yemen?
To take the case of Yemen itself: Post-Independence in 1967, this country was divided (albeit, compared to the Koreas and the Germanies, in a relatively amicable manner) by two political entities that had been shaped by the rival political ideologies of Pan-Arabism and Marxist-Leninism. South Yemen was perhaps more ideologically committed to communism during the better part of its existence than North Yemen was to Arab unity, since the latter had to accept the defeated royalists into its political class after the 1970 withdrawal of Egyptian forces, but the fact remains that both sides of the country were governed by secular parties. that were seeking to hold together their territories against the centrifugal forces of religious strife. Tensions between Sunnis and Shia existed but it was contained and expressed within public spheres which aspired be more than mono-confessional entities. It took the multiple defeats throughout the Middle East of such non-sectarian systems by US imperialism, Zionism, and the Saudis to reduce societies like Yemen to the level where the mosque has to increasingly substitute for the state, and religious affiliation for an absent civic identity.*
One can say that the withering away of socialist and Arabist projects revealed the "truth" of that part of the world that is called Yemen as a place of irreconcilable and lawless creeds, but this would fail to register the process by which this allegedly immutable reality has become so politically salient now, as opposed to back in the 1960s when the fundamentalist reaction that was brewing was still sidelined by more dynamic alternatives.
*As I mentioned here, the strife between the secularizing forces in MENA was part of the problem too, but their falling outs occurred in the context of external enemies with the capability and will to take advantage of every setback.
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thirdplace posted:"This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears, and even more than that," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu referred to advances made by Houthi rebels allied to Tehran in Yemen, and accused the Islamic republic of trying to "conquer the entire Middle East".
"The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is very dangerous to humanity, and must be stopped," he said.i wonder if anyone in the room cracked up when he said "the Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis." i bet no one did. this is why the world needs Sam Kris
my friend just informed me that Sam kris retweeted a tweet by a milquetoast former childhood friend of ours who is now a guardian columnist. it was about ed milliband looking silly.
