The supply of aid and the lifting of the blockade would save countless lives. Yet they are consequences of the conflict, not its cause. Addressing them alone will not bring an end to war.
Neither will they change the fact that a ceasefire plan backed by the Biden administration and the Saudis has been rejected by the Houthi rebels who took control of the capital Sanaa in September 2014, with Yemen’s president going into exile when the Saudi bombing campaign started in early 2015. Whilst some deride the group’s intransigence, the impasse lies in expecting failed diplomatic solutions of the…
