Israel, Saudi Arabia backing Takfiri terrorists: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Massoud Shadjareh, the chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, in Tehran, and Carol Gould, an author and political commentator, in London, to discuss the similarities between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Shadjareh says there is “extreme similarity” between the ongoing Saudi aggression against Yemen and the Israelis’ war against the Gaza Strip last year, adding that both the Saudi and Israeli regimes have denied food and medicine to the impoverished people and bombed civilians on a daily basis.

He says both Saudis and Israelis prefer the Takfiri groups that are active in Syria and Iraq, because both regimes are trying to wreak havoc in the Middle East, adding that the Israeli authorities look after the Takfiri elements because the Tel Aviv regime has issues with Iran and Palestine, not with the terrorist groups.

The al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen are part of a so-called coalition that is fighting the Ansarullah movement and army units and enjoying Al Saud support to destabilize the impoverished nation, he maintains.

The international community has completely been aware of the developments in Gaza and Yemen, but the world powers have kept silent and refused to do anything to stop the Israeli and Saudi aggressions against the Gazans and the Yemenis, he says.

Gould, for her part, thinks the conflict in Yemen is becoming a “war of attrition,” adding that thousands of people, including women and children, have died in the poor Arab country.

The United Nations and the United States have not shouldered their responsibility to call for an end to the war in impoverished Yemen, she says, adding that US President Barack Obama has been awarded the Noble Peace Prize but did nothing to stop the bloodshed last year in the Gaza Strip and now in Yemen.

PRESS TV