Press TV has interviewed Scott Bennett, a political commentator from San Francisco, and Richard Millet, a journalist and political commentator from London, to get their views on Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen.
The United Kingdom has blocked European Union efforts to launch an independent international inquiry into Saudi Arabia’s war of aggression in Yemen, while several non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International have condemned the Riyadh regime for its war crimes against the Yemeni people.
Asked to comment on these latest developments, Scott Bennett said he believed that the US and the UK do have blood on their hands, because they have been backing Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen as well as its support for terrorism in other countries.
Referring to what he called Saudi Arabia’s hidden dark financing route, Bennett explained “Millions of dollars and pounds are being funneled through Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and a variety of others, into the coffers of MI6 and CIA, financing a lot of these weaponry and mercenaries and Takfiri Wahhabis, who have been used as cannon fodder, to destabilize these countries and wage a war against Yemen.”
“The British addiction to money, its idolatry of money, is encouraging it to give 3 billion pounds worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia,” he stated, adding that the United States is also giving 1.5 billion dollars worth of military equipment to the Saudis.
The analyst noted that the people of the United States and the United Kingdom are opposed to the cooperation between their governments and the Saudi Kingdom.
According to the commentator, “Saudi Arabia has been financing a genocide against the Yemeni people largely because of their own House of Saud fear of a Yemen awakening moving north and destabilizing them.”
The Saudi Kingdom has used the fear of a domino effect of the Yemen revolution “to animate their political and military actions” against the impoverished nation, he maintained.
Meanwhile, the other panelist attending Press TV’s ‘The Debate’ program, Richard Millet said that Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United Kingdom and that the government in London needs such an ally in the Middle East for many reasons.
Pointing to the Saudi aggression against Yemen which has left thousands of civilians dead and many others injured, he said, “You have to surmise whether this be an intentional act by the Saudi Arabian government to target civilians or are they dying tragically and unfortunately in the course of measures taken solely against those Houthi” fighters.
Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen since March 2015, with the UN putting the death toll at 10,000. The offensive was launched to reinstate Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch sally of Riyadh, who has resigned as Yemen’s president.
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