@Kuwaiti Girl
Just an advice to you and everybody else. Relying on civilian "Twitter personalities" is a bad thing to do as most of them are mere "analysts" like you, me and everyone else on the internet who voices his or her opinion. If you take a look at the sources that you have used they are contradicting each other and it's fair to say that they both tweet a lot of nonsense to put it mildly. A visit to their profiles should be enough.
This news has not been officially confirmed yet and even if it will be, UAE will continue to play a role in Yemen. As will every GCC state in particular due to the simple fact that events in Yemen and anywhere else on the Arabian Peninsula as a whole are often interlinked. Albeit Yemen has been more isolated in this regard.
We have discussed this conflict in depth in the Yemen thread and we both reached a similar verdict.
Anyway this will not change the fundamentals of the core issues in Yemen at all. Even if KSA ended its campaign in 10 minutes nothing would change. Yemen will continue to be an highly unstable country (sad to say a failed country) just like for the past many decades. Yemenis are the greatest enemies of Yemenis. Whatever happens it is certain that the various parties in Yemen will continue to fight each other. KSA will as usual be perfectly fine and in fact make a good income of the instability (cheap Yemeni labour etc.). KSA was hardly impacted by events in Yemen when the trouble was much bigger in the past. Likewise nothing happened when Yemen was divided into 2 countries.
Outsiders has this idea of Yemen suddenly becoming unstable 2 years ago. I have news for those people, Yemen has faced much, much bloodier wars and conflicts for the past 50 years and the country has practically been ungoverned for well, since forever.
Anyway the current situation is not ideal but I doubt that we can say that about any region of the MENA. You say that Israel is the winner and I don't disagree but it's a pathetic "winner" if you compare it to winners elsewhere in the world. Israel is only in a good position because countries like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya etc. are in a worse condition. I doubt that any developed country in the West for instance would change places with Israel.
hauthis seem to be very good fighters.. they survived saudi onslaught... time for both sides to sit down and do a deal.. may be involve UN or some other observer.
The bulk of the anti-government forces is made up by the Yemeni army loyal to the former Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh and allied tribes. Not the Houthi's or allied tribes. Those two parties were sworn enemies for 2 decades (since the foundation of the Houthi' group in the 1994) and have very different visions for the future of Yemen. Their current "alliance" is an alliance of convenience and nothing more.
In general Western media and outsiders (non-Arabs) have no clue about the Yemeni conflict and its enormous complexity. Hence why only Arabs on PDF have been able to discuss this conflict in detail.
Lastly all guerrilla forces, especially when fighting on home turf, are in a very good position to survive any attack or extended war. Case in point being the current Syrian opposition (who face 100 times harsher odds), the Iraqi resistance during the most recent Iraq War, Taliban in Afghanistan, Vietcong and literally 100's of other recent and past examples.
Anyway yes, Yemenis, just like all Arabians and Arabs, have historically been fierce fighters (Arab military history in general speaks for itself only Westerners (a select few even) can compare if measured on number of empires, size of territory controlled, influence, extend of influence and reach etc.) which any invader of Yemen from the ancient Greeks and Romans to more recent interventions can attest to. The reasons for this are many but mostly geography, a warlike culture, fierce tribalism (not rivaled anywhere in the Arab world), abundance of weapons past and present and the culture. One has just to look at how traditional villages and cities were built in Yemen. Such architecture and habit of building villages and towns not in the valleys but at the summits of mountains is seen nowhere in the world to this extent.
As for the numerous trolls in this thread, well that's to be expected of ignorant people. I especially like the comments about "Arabs" as if everyone fighting in Yemen was not an Arab, lol. A bit rich considering the modern military history of the posters's homeland/ancestral land. Let alone past one which is in an entirely different galaxy when compared to the Arab one. Saying more in this regard should not be necessary. Nor has this conflict anything to do with Iran. The "Arab" Mullah's in Iran play no role in Yemen whatsoever.
Lastly I predicted, even before the current war began and as soon as the Saleh/Houthi's started their campaign in Yemen, that regardless of what happens and regardless of interventions whether from the outside or inside, no single party will be able to control all of Yemen or become so strong that this party would gain hegemony.
Anyway from KSA's viewpoint all the strategic areas of Yemen have been conquered. Whether vital ports, the areas that contain almost all of Yemen's oil and gas or the economic heart of Yemen (Aden). As far as I am concerned, Houthi's are not a military threat for KSA and will likely never be and the part of Yemen (20% of Yemen's territory) that they and Saleh control is neither rich in anything but heavily populated and prone to infighting. I would, if I was King Salman, continue to seal the border and focus on the South. I also don't understand the opposition to Yemen dividing into 2 parts as once before. An inpdendent Southern Yemen would be a weak country, just like Northern Yemen, and by default South Yemen would be at the mercy of KSA. In fact a Southern Yemen could very well join KSA in a personal union or as a federal republic with widespread autonomy. Such a thing would benefit Southern Yemen tremendously.
Anyway this is a period of chaos for the region and for it to become better it must first become worse. Eventually all parties will learn from their mistakes and grow up not only for the sake of themselves but the region that they all inhabit. If it was up to me Arabia should become one entity. The current setup is moronic in many ways. That's for another long discussion.
