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What Kind of Yemen?

The U.S. has to date hit hundreds of al-Qaeda targets, but

has never hit a Houthi one. The U.S. has also targeted tribes
that oppose al-Qaeda that resist the Houthis' policies of expan-
sion. Nabeel Khoury, a U.S. diplomat serving with NATO,
says that many innocent civilians have lost their lives in every
U.S. UAV attack, and that for this reason, for every person
killed, 40 to 60 new 'enemies of America' emerge.
The Islamic world has a responsibility in this critical state

of affairs, in which large numbers of Muslims are suffering, to
strive to bring the fighting to an end as a matter of urgency
and to spread a spirit of love, peace and brotherhood among
all Muslims in order to bring this strife that sets brother
against brother to an end. In doing so, it is also vitally impor-
tant that all the needs of the Yemeni people, who are suffering
terrible poverty and want and living in hunger and thirst,
should be met without further loss of time.
However, even more than all these material requirements,

what the people of Yemen need most of all, just like everyone
else in the world, is love. Contrary to what people think, it is
not weakness to regard love as the most important component
in the establishment of social order. Indeed, societies with
powerful bonds of love among individuals have always been
far stronger in the face of destructive impacts from the inside
or outside.

The Muslim people of Yemen, who until yesterday were
living in peace and brotherhood, and who speak the same lan-
guage and believe in the same God, can only be freed from
these tragedies caused by division and dispute by re-establish-
ing love among them. Only when the whole Islamic world, not
just Yemen, fully established bonds of unity, love and brother-
hood within itself, can it rid itself of the wickedness and
exploitation of foreign powers that regard division and con-
flict among Muslims as a great opportunity, and be freed from

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