Luai Ahmed, whose mother ran a human rights group in Sana’a, says the pollster behind the 8% figure had to relocate after the takeover, and so did his mother’s organization:
“My own mother’s organization had to leave Sanaa because of the Houthi takeover.”
He calls the Houthis a group that shut down every human rights monitor and polling center in their territory.
If support is anywhere near those numbers, the Houthis are holding Sana’a by force, and any deal that locks them in leaves most Yemenis without a say in who runs their country.
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Jackson Hinkle, who has met the Houthis in Yemen, doubts a Gulf coalition gets any further than Washington did:
“The United States has tried on two separate occasions recently to try and remove Ansar Allah from the seat of power in Sana’a, and they have failed.”
Luai Ahmed asks whether a group nobody elected should be running the country at all, and Jackson calls the Houthis’ ability to mobilize fighters far more impressive than anything America’s two-party system produces.
Two decisions are still open, whether the Gulf states actually form that coalition and whether the US joins it, and those decide how far this spreads.
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