Press Review [Archives:2002/37/Press Review]

Annas Weekly, 2 Sept.2002.

Main Headlines:
-Yemen’s universities decides to increase teachers salaries by 30%
-MP Insaf Mayo: we condemn corruption
-Secondary schools degree’s results push graduates into dark tunnel
-Exchange of fire between government military police and tribesmen over despite on a piece of land
Columnist Sadeq Nasher comments on newly formed political parties in Yemen and says I’m not against formation of political parties. He says, however, that he has convictions that the country is no longer able to accommodate this quantity of political parties and organizations. There are several parties that are actually influential and effective on political arena.
The remainders are merely a voice phenomenon. The citizen is no longer able to understand if this situation is an expression of actual pluralism or motivated by the desire to get support from the state which offers aid to all parties, be they small or big. It is quite sufficient to have tens of founders and hundreds of members, registered with Parties Affairs Committee to declare formation of new political parties to be added to the existing 22 political parties.
The writer thinks that political and ideological orientations of the Yemeni parties are almost confirmed to three or four trends, and there can be unity their ranks. This is especially applicable to all leftist parties; the Socialist, the Nasserite, the Unionist assemblage and other leftist parties. This political and ideological bloc can play an effective role in the Yemeni political life if united and actually discarded their differences.
The same can be said concerning rightist parties, represented by the Islah party, and those that combined between the left and the right as mainly represented by the General People Congress party.
Al-Jamaheer Weekly, organ of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, I Sept.2002.
Main Headlines:
-Zionist plans to demolish Aqsa Mosque, strike Syria and Lebanon
-8 thousand students sue the government
-Taiz security arrests a citizen suspected to have links with al-Qaeda
-Arab league secretary-general refuses accusing the league of anti-Semitism
-Yemen deports Arab students suspected to be affiliate of al-Qaeda
-Iraq welcomes cooperation with Arab companies including Kuwaiti
The newspaper’s editor in chief writes that among results of the world war 1 was the Sakes-Picot treaty that divided the Arab area and created borders among the Arab countries, and granted Arab land of Palestine to the Zionists. The results history is offering us must be learnt from while constituting the stand, as we are at the threshold of a new stage. Its features indicate about dividing and re-arranging the Arab map politically, economically, socially and geographically. The scenario reveals the division of Iraq, destroying the nationalist political regime in Iraq, the strategic depth for Syria. The plan also aims to deal a blow to Syria. What America describes as allies are not excluded from this scheme. As for the long-standing Zionist goal, it is the expulsion of the Palestinians from the West Bank to the East Bank; a target the Zionist entity seeks with an American help, at the experiences and realize that a struggle of half a country they would lose by merely keeping silent. Would they comprehend that new stage’s goals have become very clear and would be more difficult?
Time and the issue are not out their hands yet. Initiative and immediate action to contain the situation and resist division is the strategic choice the nature of the circumstances dictates on the Arabs and Muslims.
As-Sahwa Weekly, 5 September 2002

Main Headlines:
-Parliament speaker in Baghdad
-Dr.al-Amri Sheerov: Detainees, deprived of amnesty
-Authority address against pluralism
Columnist Zaid al-Shami says 11 September events have produced worldwide impact and caused a violent quake that was expected to be comprehended by states and peoples, majority the United States, in re-assessment and rectification relations with others, and in the necessity of reconsidering the wrongdoings, as well as considering grievances of occupation and poverty. But anything of that did not happen. Here it is America beating drums of war and looking for a victim, though it has not got finished with its war in Afghanistan.
It is nowadays directing its war machine towards Iraq, as if wars are the only things our world is lacking.
The events of last September have unified the stand of the West towards a common enemy, with Russia joining it, and found no enemy other than Islam and Muslims as their target.
Al-Wahdawi Weekly, organ of the Nasserite People’s Unionist Organization, 3 Sept.2002.

Main Headlines:
-Government plans to lay off over 250,000 employees
-Military rockets to disperse 5000 gunmen in Sha’af mountains.
-Yemen seeks to mediate to solve Iraq-Iran crisis
-Security authorities prevent Amnesty International team from visiting suspected “terrorists”
-Plan to restructure government sectors
Columnist Waheeb al-Nassari writes on tourist movement in Yemen claiming it has receded in contributing to increase gross domestic income since events of September 11. The number of tourists from European countries and America shrank after September events, especially due to kidnapping incidents and bomb attacks against American interests. That had urged those countries to warn their nationals against risks of visiting Yemen as tourists.
The writer says that despite of losing more than one thousand Western tourists as a result of September events, Yemen benefited from influx of Gulf tourists into it. An official at Tourism Ministry ascribed the increase of Gulf tourism movement towards Yemen to solution of Yemen’s border disputes with the Sultanate of Oman and Saudi Arabia. After losing the European tourist, the ministry is trying to look for new market to promote its tourism in South-East Asia. But mechanisms of tourist promotion are still not active because they could not provide needs and requirements for the tourist, in addition to random methods used for specifying areas of tourist attraction.
 

Al-Balagh weekly, 3 September 2002.
Main Headlines:
-Amnesty International confirms officials acknowledgment of violating the laws, demands release of detainees
-National Security Apparatus for reforming security organizations
-Under American-Zionist support, a fresh Eritrean military provocations against some Yemeni Red Sea islands
-Tribal mass-ups on borders with Saudi Arabia
The newspaper’s editorial says the Arabs and Muslims can collectively refuse the American policy and find a sort of integration with themselves and turn towards Europe and the East. They consequently can dispense with for good the United States of America and its aid that does not exceed tens of millions of dollars.
In such a case the American president would not be able to impose sanctions on more than forty Arab and Muslim states, nor can he lay siege to them. It is particularly so because the Israeli enemy is existent in the heart of the region and this makes America keen on existence of relations with the Arab countries in order to preserve presence of this enemy in this region. The United States would not deal a military strike to all Arab and Islamic countries. Here is therefore where the strength is if the Arab and Muslims vision got united. An Arab and Islamic strategy has become very necessary to attain the minimum degree of political and economic unity and this is one of the dictates of the present century and to stave off rendering our countries a backyard farm for the American cowboy.
Al-Ihya’a al_Arabi weekly, organ of the National Arab Baath Socialist party, 5 September 2002.
Main Headlines:
-The party’s headquarers in Yemen receive volunteers to fight against American aggression on Iraq and Palestine
-President Saddam Hussein sends a letter to president Ali Abdulla Saleh, receives parliament Speaker sheikh al-Ahmar
-Dahm tribe attack site of the company working in border demarcation
-The British: Bush Jn. a great danger to world peace
-Joint Meeting Parties condemn attack on journalist al-Khaiwani
Columnist Mohammed Mohammed Nouman says the Iraq political movement has proved that Iraq deals with events in a way bearing all meanings of the age and the great events. The Iraqi leadership has repeatedly confirmed its desire for maintaining dialogue with the U.N. on grounds of international principles and laws for recognizing its rights as a sovereign state in its natural rights
Iraq has disclosed the motives and hidden aims of the intended aggression mentioning efforts of good will mediations and the good efforts by regional and international organizations that found in the Iraqi stands a positive response and their welcoming of Iraq’s initiatives aimed at prosperity of humanity. Iraq calls for dialogue on lifting the blockade, and solving the crisis with diplomatic means according to international principles and rules of the United Nations and its security council.
RAY weekly, organ of Sons of Yemen League party, 3 Sept. 2002.
Main Headlines:
-1665 persons with HIV, deported from Yemen
-Amnesty International delegation fails to visit detainees
-Court of Appeals mitigates sentence of U.S. embassy attacker
-Indonesian airplanes to be used in pursuing al-Qaeda members in Yemen
-Attack on al-Khaiwani condemned
RAY editorial says combating terror has become an international task a most of world countries have declared their support and backing for its program and operations.
Our country that announced its support of the campaign on terror is entrusted with an important role due to two essential factors: its geographical location and the presence of extremist seeds on its land whether from its sons or its guests. It seems that our country is not able to fulfill its international obligations because itself is experiencing a state of situations regarding security and political, and economic instability. This situation reflects itself negatively on the role of Yemen in the international campaign.

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