I think a bone saw is needed somewhere.
"Men who made history…His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Minister of Defense in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, may God protect and preserve him, and Major General Fahd bin Hamad Al-Salman.
Commander of the Joint Forces. Names not written with ink, but engraved in the mountains of Hadhramaut and Mahra, in general and firmly rooted in the heart of every Hadhrami who knew."
"I hope that the officials in the United Arab Emirates do not become helpers to Satan in changing hearts against them.
His Eminence Sheikh Saleh Al-Luhaydan -may God have mercy on him-"
Revelation: My message to the honorable brothers in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi: "How did they convince you?
"Warm greetings, forgive my candor—I offer you this advice as a friend: Conduct the most comprehensive reevaluation of your regional policies. The entire world cannot possibly be wrong while you alone are right. Reassessing the qualifications of your policymaking team and advisors is an essential step, for there is a glaring, catastrophic flaw, and half the cure begins with acknowledging it.
Credibility is not a marginal matter; it is the cornerstone of any nation's political identity. So how did some of your advisors convince you that political shrewdness lies in issuing official statements utterly at odds with your own orientations? How did they convince you that influence is built by dividing nations and supporting militias? How did they convince you that your country's reputation is less important than a few tons of gold or some leased ports? How did they convince you to toss international covenants—and even authentic Arab values—to the wind for utterly futile goals?
How did they convince you that your allies' patience with your backstabs is a sign of weakness? How did they convince you that money alone suffices to build political influence? How did they convince you to squander your people's wealth on mercenaries and hired guns? How did they convince you to play a role far grander than your stature—and if only it were an honorable one? How did they convince you to sacrifice the Arabs' love and pride in you as a pioneering developmental model? And how did they convince you to unleash cheap international media campaigns against your neighbors' major economic projects?
How did they convince you to tell the lie and then believe it yourselves? How did they convince you that playing on contradictions qualifies as strategic intelligence? How did they convince you to import hired killers from the farthest reaches of the earth, from Colombia, to murder your brothers in Sudan? How did they convince you to arm massacres and rapes in El Fasher? How did they convince you that allying with Israel would make you a regional superpower? And how did they convince you that Israel respects those who betray their own kin to please it?
How did they convince you to keep funding terrorism through companies linked to your Houthis? How did they convince you to flout anti-terrorism financing laws and sacrifice your global financial reputation? How did they convince you that listing these companies on the U.S. Treasury's terrorism lists is no big deal, with no cumulative future consequences? How did they convince you to have your police chief publicly threaten and blackmail tourists by filming them in your hotel rooms?
And how did they convince you to steal the trees of Socotra Island right under the world's nose? And how did they convince you to send your advisors and media operatives to the island to declare that the plan is to turn it into your eighth emirate? And how did they convince you to squander the legacy of the Arabs' wise Sheikh Zayed, may God rest his soul, and replace it with the legacy of war criminals Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich? And how did they convince you to peddle the "free" Abraham Accords to the Arabs, when you are in dire need of "confidence-restoration agreements" with every Arab state?
And how did they convince you to lose everything for nothing? And how did they convince you that your noble people and the peoples of the other Emirates neither read, nor watch, nor reflect deeply and impartially on the catastrophic folly of your advisors' policies?
I do not say all this because I expect you to halt the evils of these policies of your own volition—praise God, Riyadh has made up its mind, and the region and the world will soon be rid of all the harms of your approach. But I say it because, by God, I grieve for the fathomless abyss into which your credibility, your successes, your reputation, and your national identity have plummeted in this horrifying way. For among you are true Arabs, and the Arab does not accept that.
This is an opportunity for reflection and contemplation. And if these questions displease you, and you have no desire to grant them the thought they deserve, that's fine. You can simply rest your heads and tell yourselves: The whole region and the world are just "Brothers."
My regards, Salman Al Ansari"