The Saudis claimed they sensed a threat from Yemen, where peace talks between the former Saudi backed government in SanaвЂ™a and the new National Salvation Government broke down and clashes ensued between the two sides. Instead the Saudis and their allies are accused of conspiring against the Palestinians and sold the third holiest site in Islam in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds to the Israelis. By the way, the Palestinians had also requested such an intervention and is still requesting such an intervention today but to date, their appeals have fallen on death ears. Firstly, the Saudis claimed that the former government of Yemen led by former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi had requested the military intervention. The reasons or excuses at the time, Saudi Arabia offered to wage a war to this extent on another country were THREE. The Palestinians and the Lebanese who also suffered from Israeli occupation had dreamt to only smell an Arab storm of this magnitude. Not even a breeze of this storm on Yemen. For decades, since 1948, the Palestinians had witnessed one massacre after the other and we never got to see an Arab storm. The Storm of the Arabs! In fact it was quite unfortunate. Many in the region had jokingly highlighted what exactly happened that we are suddenly witnessing this courageous will and heroic leadership among a handful of Arab states. The military campaign was dubbed Operation Decisive Storm. At the time, this was something unheard of, especially in the Arab world that the Arabs had formed a military alliance for the first time in many decades and were conducting wide-scale bombing campaigns with such energy and such enthusiasm. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia declared that it and some allies had formed a coalition led by Riyadh and began a military operation. It will certainly go down In history, perhaps not in favor of the Saudis though. To say the war on Yemen was a major development in the history of West Asia might be an understand.

The war wages on