The demand for sanctions against the Saudi Arabian “Godfather of Terror” was first raised by the APF last year in a widespread poster campaign launched as a press conference in the European Parliament (see above). We are delighted to say that the prospect of our demand becoming reality has just come a lot closer.
The European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution calling on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia. Britain, France and other EU governments should no longer sell weapons to the Wahhabi dictatorship to help it target and kill civilians in Yemen.
EU lawmakers voted 359 in favour, 212 against and with 31 abstentions, for the formal call for an EU arms embargo.
Although the vote is not legally binding, it certainly will pressure the European Commission to act. Saudi Arabia’s eleven month war on Yemen will still continue for now, but heavy losses on the battlefield and this sort of growing international pressure are all taking their toll on the willingness of some of the kingdom’s ruling elite to put up with the extremism and recklessness of the ruling clique.
With over 6,000 dead already, many of them children and other innocent civilians, Saudi Arabia’s ruthless bombing campaign and imports blockade has created a humanitarian disaster in Yemen. But this vote gives a glimmer of hope that it will end, because if Britain, the US and other Nato members were prevented from resupplying the Saudi war machine, their aggressive war would grind to a halt within weeks.
The Saudi bombing campaign isn’t just destroying Yemen; it will also spark a new refugee flood which will help to destroy Europe
Nor is this just a matter of a foreign country a long way away that has nothing to do with us. On the contrary, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen’s Shia Houthi militia is allowing ISIS and Al Qaeda to seize big tracts of territory in Yemen which will give them more secure bases and training centres from which to organise terror attacks on Western targets.
Further, the Saudi war on Yemen is producing a tidal wave of refugees who, although for once genuine, we simply cannot accommodate in the West. Only a rapid return to peace can close down this new source of millions more unfortunate refugees to add to the tidal wave that is already swamping us, generally from other countries similarly destabilised by the evil or ignorant foreign policy decisions of “liberal” Western politicians.
