READER COMMENTS

Yemen needs many funds to provide the basic services that every home requires and many sectors need many reforms. However, the necessary resources to those required reforms are not provided and that is the reason why the Yemeni Government needs to cooperate with the Arabic Governments in order to provide all what Yemen lacks and to develop it again. This is what the other countries will work on in order to see Yemen better than it is now. I wish that there was a fast cooperation for the advancement of the future of Yemen and for the development of all the sectors that needs the necessary things for development.

Yemen, the Arab Islamic country located in the South of Arabian Peninsula and overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Straits, has suffered from many crises that caused it something like a pain, but the escalation of these problems in the recent period took it from the situation of pains to the risk of cracking. If we try to disassemble the Yemeni scene, we might find it replete with internal and external complications, including the Houthi rebellion to the danger of Al-Qaeda as well as the political movements in the South that demand the secession to the political slugfest in the North, not to mention the economic problems that almost plagued the stability of the country, and all of those files ranging from the security to the economic and the military with their direct impact on the inside of Yemen. However, their extension and the spark of their impact extends the Arabic region and the Arab Gulf region in particular.

It has become a must for all the Gulf States to support Yemen even more in order to help that State to make advancement again and enter a new era filled with love and optimism in the State of Yemen. Of course, the Gulf States have had strong relationships for hundreds of years with the State of Yemen, as Yemen has been known for trade for centuries. Consequently, it has become linked with the Gulf States in many commercial relationships. Also, we mentioned here that there are a lot of people in the Gulf States who obtained their nationalities, who are originally from the State of Yemen. However, they moved to live in those States and there they proliferated and became Gulf families. However, they originally belonged to the State of Yemen and, therefore, the assistance is not only an assistance coming from a Gulf State to another state, but it is coming from sister countries to their sister who is in need of them.

Power lies inside the veins of the Yemenis; the whole issue is that their circumstances didn't help them, and the enemies gathered against them from inside the country and from abroad. But if Yemen is supported by the other Arab countries, difficulties will be overcome. They day will soon come when Yemen restores its glory and its lost position. Hence, each Yemeni will be proud of his country, wherever he goes, and of being an honorable citizen! We all are looking forward to this day!

The evil results of the Yemeni revolution exceeded its good ones. Currently, we are in a state of loss, insecurity, and instability in Yemen. There is also ceaseless disagreements in the viewpoints and the opinions of the citizens. All of this led to serious desperation in the national Yemeni economy and created a real suffering lived today by the people of yeomen. Hence, all the Arab states should meet and form the Arab union as it should be even for once to save the sad Arab states that were overpowered by the enemies in general and Yemen in particular. All the Arab states, governments, and citizens should provide all forms of help and aids to the people of the great Yemen to reconstruct what was destroyed on the land of the great Yemen. We also should help in the revival of the destroyed Yemeni economy. This is the responsibility of the Gulf States in particular, which are required to invest in major projects in Yemen to help the Yemeni economy and give it a strong push forward. Thus, Yemen will take breath following the terrible suffering. Yemen needs to regain the age of its greatness, power, and bloom in all life fields economically and socially. The Arab states should help each other to be the greatest states in the world.

The fact that the Arabic States assist Yemen economically is a great evidence of the Arab unity and that they are one hand. This is the way we should be. The Egyptian, the Saudi, the Yemeni, the Iraqi, and the Kuwaiti citizens as well as all the citizens of the Arabic States must be one hand because we are one nation and the good that will come to one of the States will return to the neighboring States. Therefore, we should unite and cooperate economically and militarily, and in all the areas so that the Arabs would develop and challenge the West and the foreign States, and prove to them that we are not less than they are. Also, the fruits of this cooperation are that it has helped Yemen to stand on its feet again and restore the movement of production again, and that the country would recover economically. I am expecting Yemen and all the Arabic States to have a better future because the Arabic States began cooperating with each other more than they used to and the cooperation among the States always leads to progress, development, the increase in the production, and also removes the differences between the States and the people of the States. It brings the love among the States where the Yemeni would feel when they travel to any State and that he is in his own country and not in another country, thanks to the cooperation of the Arabic States in supporting the Yemeni State economically. This economic assistance leads to the opening of the door to stand in other aspects such as the military side and the education and the exchange of the resources, and the expertise, and to fill the deficit areas in each State until the Arabic States would grow considerably.

The Republic of Yemen suffered at the hands of terrorist organizations, and it will not be enough in writing to describe what had happened to it and hit it from the forced break-ins and assaults and death and destruction of property in all the corners of the country. Then comes the al-Qaeda international terrorist group which may have been formed of a group of terrorists from different towns, nationalities and boredom, but have unified in taking paths of evil and death, spreading corruption and destruction to parts of the country. They are at the top of the presidency and the dominance in the terrorist organizations, which didn’t leave, of course, any of their tempers and violence, brutality and cruelty, but followed and made it a companion. There are thousands of crimes that may be carried out by al-Qaeda on the land of Yemen in the name of religion and reform and the defense of Islam, and all this is in vain, just a justification for failing to justify their unfair bloody crimes of spreading fear and terror, anxiety, and dispersion in the hearts of Yemeni citizens until the town become fertile ground for the dissemination of judgment on its territory. But the surprising thing is that they have taken the noble goals and objectives as justification for everything they have done of crimes, bombings and incursions, killing and slaughter and destruction of each victim country they had entered. We Arabs know them too well, we do not believe, but there are foreign States who don’t know us or them, so quite simply once they know that this is an Islamic group killing and slaughtering, Muslims have become in their eyes like them, harsh, brutal, violent people.

All the States must work in order to give attention to the Yemeni refugees, get them out of the difficult situation that they live in their country and work on increasing the support provided for them in the form of the assistance that must reach them as common Arabic aids. The Arabic States must work to find appropriate solutions to rid Yemen of the suffering from the extremism which destroyed their future and caused them to experience displacement. The Arabic States must provide financial assistance to the Yemeni Government in order to work on eliminating the terrorist movements belonging to Al-Qaeda that have become dominant over many sectors in Yemen. The security forces have experienced many losses in order to stop the terrorist cells and limit their proliferation in the other parts of the cities of Yemen. The Yemeni Forces had succeeded so far in controlling most of the Yemeni cities and a few cities in the South remained under the control of these movements. However, with the continuity of the confrontation, those cities will soon be under the control of the Yemeni Forces.

The Arab countries by standing beside Yemen economically prove the greatness of their unity and that they are always united and that is what should be. The Egyptian people, Yemeni people, Saudi people, Iraqi people, Kuwaiti people and all Arab people should be united because we are an Arab nation and the good things that come to us all will benefit all the Arab countries. That is why we should stand together and be cooperative in all economic and military fields and in all other fields in order for the Arabs to be developed and to challenge the west and other countries and to prove that we are better than them in everything. The fruits of our cooperation are what helped Yemen to stand again, return production movement, walk through development and refresh Yemen economically. I think that Yemen will be at the top of the Arab countries in the near future because the Arab countries are starting to cooperate and that will lead to an increase of production. Cooperation always produces development, prosperity, elegance, and increase in production and it also removes differences between countries and people, and it produces love among countries as any citizen who travels to a neighbouring country will feel as if in he is in his own country. And that is due to the cooperation of the Arab countries standing beside Yemen economically.

The revolution was popular. It arose and ignited on Friday, 11 February 2011, named "Rage Friday" (the third day after the fall of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt) that started because of the huge wave of protests that broke out in the Arab world in the early 2011, particularly in the revolution that toppled the Tunisian President Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali and followed by the Egyptian revolution on January 25 which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Accordingly, as an inspiration from those States, the youth and the opposition parties began to claim the Yemeni regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh who has ruled the country for 33 years and carried out political, economic and social reforms. But Yemen needs stronger support from the Gulf countries to restore its security and stability, and to get rid of the armed demonstrations in the capital and major cities, and to provide the technical and logistical expertise and financial support to the political, economic, and security tracks and the reorganization of the fight against terrorism, military threats and on the public order. And support to solve the economic problems of Yemen that are real and there needs to be organized and concerted efforts in order for Yemen to return as it was and even better. Also, the focus on the development of the institutions which constitute the major obstacle to overcome the current economic difficulties, knowing that the long-term success depends on Yemen itself.

Let's learn from foreign countries' unity which made them stronger and greater. Actually, they succeeded in achieving their goals and became superpowers. Power is in union and safety. No matter how much we, Arabs, differ and our policies differ, we must give the priority to what is common among us, to what unite us.

The Gulf States must support Yemen, which is one of the Gulf States, which is part of their agreements. Yemen suffered much from all the problems that affected many of the sectors of the Yemeni economy, which is destroyed. Furthermore, the security forces are deteriorating continually and this leads to the spread of terrorism in an organized and powerful way. Many steps can be taken by the Arab states to help Yemen.

This is really saddening, to give our hand to the Emirati people.