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Some questions for you:
a) What is stopping the GCC countries from closing their air bases to the US?
Is it the question is why the GCC countries should stop providing air bases to the US, and that Palestine is not their responsibility?
b) What is stopping the GCC countries ending financial relations with the US (and pivoting to other countries more like China, Russia)?
c) What is stopping Saudi Arabia to make peace with the Houthis?
d) Do you think the Houthis are terrorists, and do you want them to be defeated?
e) Do you think Hamas are terrorists?
A)
Am I the spokesman of GCC states or any state for that matter? There are no US or foreign bases in KSA.
The few US military bases in the GCC are located far from Israel and play no role whatsoever in the current conflict for the reasons that I already stated. Nor has this anything to do with any of my main points. Israel enjoyed immunity/total US/Western support for DECADES long before there was 1 single US/foreign base anywhere in the Arab world.
When I openly and harshly criticize Muslims/Muslim world, that includes everyone and every leadership as a whole. The GCC are not immune in this regard. Nor is the GCC even one single bloc. For starters, look at the political differences (sounds familiar, ah?). Just look at the KSA-UAE disagreements which are huge foreign policy wise. From Libya to Sudan to Yemen next door. To Syria. List is very long.
B) Ignorant comment with all due respect when the same GCC has the strongest (BY FAR) financial relations with China, Russia, India etc. of any Muslim nation BY FAR. As well as strategic relations overall. For instance in terms of militarily cooperation, the strategic military ties that KSA has enjoyed with China since the late 1980's are only second to Pakistan in the entire Muslim world. Look no further than the ongoing military projects (uranium excavation within KSA, the extremely close and expanding ballistic/missile cooperation, drones and much more).
C) You have been sleeping or what? There have been no active conflict between KSA and the 32 year old Houthi cult for years. A better question, what stops the 32 year old Houthi cult from working towards Yemeni unity and stop their hegemonic ambitions on behalf of Yemenis when the majority do not support them? Who gave them the right to start the Yemeni civil war in 2014 and as a consequence turn Yemen into a failed nation? Who gives them the right to hold the Zaydi population in northwestern Yemen as hostages now? Why are they saints in your view?
D) I consider them an armed 32 year old cult that has nothing to do with Yemen (millennia old history), 1350 years of Zaydi history. I believe that Yemen would be in a far better place without them and ANY other militias. I don't support rag tag militias that operate outside of state control. This is something that only occurs in failed and divided states. So no, like most sane Yemenis, I don't think civil wars are a good thing, outside meddling nor militias.
Imagine if there were parallel militias/armies during the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid, Ottoman etc. eras. Or in Pakistan. You probably would not like to see that. Naturally. But honestly, I stopped caring. If people (locals) want to live in a failed state controlled by khat addicted incompetent lot, it is their choice and problem.
E) Not sure if a serious question. Of course not. It is a legitimate resistance group made up by mostly patriotic Palestinians and Muslims. Not comparable to what Houthis have done within their own country since 2014. Anyway it is not my interest or prerogative to tell locals anywhere who should be ruling them or who they should be supporting. If Gazans are content with Hamas and want to be ruled by them for another 19 years, they are free to believe that. Similarly I don't care about outsiders opinions about who rules KSA. If/when locals (in their majority) in KSA are no longer content or if the rulers are utterly incompetent, they will eventually be removed like 100's of times before in recorded history regardless of dynasty, rulers, individuals etc.
My overall main interest is the stability, unity and PROGRESS (on all key fronts) of the Arab world and Muslim world (in an ideal world but I do not see that happening anytime soon) and anyone that is able to deliver this/work towards such goals, I will support them irregardless of sect, religion, politics etc. even though I have my own personal opinions on those fronts but they are just that and completely irrelevant if the overall goals/visions are being worked towards.
Would you say the GCC countries have some leverage over the US?
More than most (if not all Muslim nations) by virtue of our economic, strategic etc. relevance (only economically relevant part of the Muslim world together with Turkey and Indonesia) but overall it is a drop in the ocean compared to the overall/combined power of the US/West/israel. No point denying this.
For starters we need to develop nuclear weapons and delivery systems that can target every single spot on earth. Only this way will Arab/Muslim blood no longer be cheap.