Between the leader and the people: A pact of dignity and equations of power
The speech of the leader on the second of Safar 1448 AH continued to transcend the limits of the traditional political statement, to become a document of liberation formulated with the letters of responsibility and the ink of loyalty, presenting – from his temporal and spatial position – what can be considered a thunderbolt that ended the stagnation of the gray, crippled stage, announcing that the silence of Yemen – which the enemies imagined to be weakness – was the silence of the storm that is preparing to pass.
Oppression disguised as arrogance
The speech examines the reality of the relationship with the Saudi regime outside the frameworks of familiar analysis. The speaker presents us with a stark truth: we are facing a regime that has severed its ties of neighborliness, embracing the role of a “pliable tool” in the service of global Zionism. The leader’s vision focuses on revealing a glaring paradox: how can a regime that claims to be caring tighten its grip on a patient crying out for life? How can it make the entry of a single pill subject to the whims of its “officers, princes, and kings, beholden to the Americans and working in their service”?
With this degree of simplicity and pain, the speech explained the psychology of arrogance practiced by the Saudi aggressor for years against millions of Yemenis whom he has imprisoned for more than a decade inside their country, confiscating their freedom and rights, and violating their dignity in a collective punishment in which the Saudi grants himself the right of exclusive agent and guardian father to millions of Yemenis whom he has turned into prisoners, confiscating their freedoms and the most basic of their rights, all in service of the Zionist project, otherwise the Saudi – says the master – has no agenda or project.
In this context, Mr. [Name] emphasizes – detailing the images of violation, confiscation, and looting – that obstructing our sovereign wealth, our airports, and our right to movement are not security measures, but rather, in essence, an existential aggression aimed at subjugating the will of an entire people in a form of tyranny, the acceptance or identification with which is a contradiction to the identity of Yemenis, their religion, their faith, and their creed, as well as a contradiction to the requirements of their wisdom, which the Great Messenger, may God bless him and his family, described and praised them for.
Establishing the stage of “forced equations”
The speech wrests the rights of Yemenis from the clutches of political maneuvering, as Yemeni rights are no longer subject to the whims of Riyadh or the dictates of Washington. The leader has established a golden rule: “No blockade will go unpunished, and no airport will be closed without the aggressor’s airports being crippled.” This political vision, or military equation, redefines the balance of power. The world today—its enemies as well as its friends—realizes that the Yemeni hand that confronted aircraft carriers at sea possesses the capability to strike the aggressors’ vital installations, turning their illusions of invulnerability into ashes scattered by the wind, and smoke and fire reminiscent of what the Kingdom suffered at the hands of the Yemeni armed forces in 2019, or in the subsequent operations targeting Saudi energy facilities in the following years.
“The Pivotal Friday”: A popular mandate sweeps across the country.
The leader’s call for a million-strong demonstration transformed into a pledge of blood and will. The unprecedented Friday flood, unseen in any capital city, was awe-inspiring and granted the leadership an absolute mandate to move from mere threats to concrete action on the ground. This extraordinary and massive turnout gave the leadership the green light to transcend the state of “deadly waiting” and enter the realm of “historical action” to reclaim usurped rights through the power of faith and the logic of the ability to inflict pain. This million-strong demonstration was not confined to the capital, Sana’a, but spread to all liberated governorates, renewing—in one way or another—the pledges of mandate and the bonds of endorsement to wage the battles for the restoration of rights that had been postponed and tolerated for years.
The speech delves into the depths of the Yemeni spirit to affirm that Yemenis are not a people who seek crumbs from tables, but rather they are people of right, wisdom, and faith. In a manner that does not tolerate interpretation or the procrastination of bygone years, the leader presents the rights of Yemen as fixed pillars that do not accept compromise, declaring that the era of Saudi control over the livelihood of Yemenis and their movements and travels has passed irrevocably. The leader affirms, addressing the masses: “You go out tomorrow, and we will have a position the day after tom