M. Omar (💙,🧡)

To Be INsPiReD iS GrEaT, tO iNsPiRe Is InCrEdiBlE..
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[Saudi Gazette @Saudi_Gazette]

Australia will crack down on “visa hoppers” and overstayers, while tightening regulations for foreign students and backpackers in a bid to curb immigration.
https://t.co/cvEThSq5dB

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗬𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄. 𝗜𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗿.

Those who know my writing, know I love maps because maps tell stories that our collective memories may have forgotten due to shifting narratives over time.

The Yemen and Saudi Arabia story is no different.

To understand the Houthi grievance against Saudi Arabia, you have to go back to 1934, because the roots run far deeper than most coverage shows these days.

This is verifiable history, not propaganda from either side.

In 1934 the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia went to war with the Zaydi imamate of northern Yemen. It was a short war, under three months, and Saudi Arabia won due to support it got from the British.

Its forces took the provinces of Asir, Najran and Jizan, and even occupied the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.

The war ended with the Treaty of Taif, signed in June 1934. Under British and Italian pressure, and with the Yemeni imam militarily weakened, Yemen recognized Saudi control of the three provinces, paid an indemnity in gold, and Saudi Arabia withdrew from Hodeidah in return.

Here is the detail that still matters.

1. The Taif Treaty of 1934 was not a permanent, unconditional cession or surrender. It granted Saudi sovereignty over the provinces on a RENEWABLE term, with clauses guaranteeing the local population visa-free movement and the right to live and work across the border as equals.

2. In the Yemeni reading, articulated again in various Arabic and English media reports I saw, the imam back then signed only "because he was weak", and he built the Treaty so that a future, stronger Yemen could one day RECLAIM what was taken. That is the historical spine of the current claim. What does that mean for today? That means IF the war with Yemen goes the way the Ansarallah Houthis want it to go, it is likely that Saudi Arabia may lose those provinces. This makes the war for Saudi Arabia existential as well.

3. The relationship soured after Yemen's 1962 republican revolution, and Saudi Arabia has intervened in Yemeni affairs, by the Yemeni account, more or less continuously since.

4. Then came the 2015 coalition war, hundreds of thousands of airstrikes, a blockade, and a civilian death toll the @UN has put in the hundreds of thousands from bombing, famine and disease combined.

Ninety years of a contested border, an unequal treaty, and a modern war stacked on top of each other. Whatever you think of the Houthis, their fight with Riyadh did not begin in 2015. It began in 1934, and it has NEVER fully ended.

History and context matters if you want to understand current dynamics. This is what I try to cover and shed light on. They need peace. All sides.

Below image is of Muhammad al-Badr, last Imam and King of Yemen.

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[Zakir Hossain @zakiraicoder]

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is not Hiroshima.

This is Lebanon right now…

This's the first time in history that an army broadcasting war criminal live while wiping mountains off the map—triggering a 4.1 magnitude earthquake—and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights remain silent.

Even if it’s an military infrastructure—as Israel claims—there are numerous other alternatives; detonating 1,100 tons of explosives directly causes severe, irreversible environmental degradation—surface topography destruction, the widening of existing ground fissures, structural damage to nearby buildings, and risking localized landslides, violating Article 35(3) of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, as well as the 1954 Hague Convention—occurring near critical historical landmarks like Beaufort Castle.

But international law clearly doesn't apply to Israel.

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@tradeifyforex Lets roll.. 🤑🤑🤑

[Tradeify FX @tradeifyforex]

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[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@Topstep 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Countries named after a person

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@Cashvolumes Damn.. are they still not triggered with the last Liq. sweep. ✊

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@TopstepTV Lets goo... smash that viewers graph 😅😅

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

"It's basic humanity for a legend of our game"

Brian Lara joins the list of former international cricket captains seeking medical care for Imran Khan

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@MichaelPatak @CoachDBA @MichaelPatak
It better be an instant account. 🤠😅

[Ajay Devgn @ajaydevgn]

Sahi ya galat, jo bhi ho..main apni family ke liye kisi bhi hadh tak ja sakta hoon.

#DrishyamTheConclusion in cinemas 2nd October. 

#Tabu #ShriyaSaran #RajatKapoor #JaideepAhlawat @prakashraaj @AbhishekPathakk @KumarMangat #SanjeevJoshi #AlokJain @AndhareAjit @ishidutta #MrunalJadhav @starstudio18_ @PanoramaMovies

#DrishyamDay #2ndOct

[PLGC @PL67712441]

Horrifying

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Imran Khan’s sons have accused the Pakistani government of “blatantly trying to kill” the jailed former prime minister and cricket captain.

Khan, 73, has been in jail in Pakistan for the past three years because of a string of allegations that followed his ousting as prime minister in August 2022 ⤵️
https://t.co/H2VqDtskAH

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

This might be the most insane footage of anything I've ever seen in my life

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

Prayers for Nepal🇳🇵
and
Prayers for PIMS Incident 🇵🇰.

[M. Omar (💙,🧡) @OmarGhaffour]

@Awelmo1 @tigerfunded definitely, because when an affiliate introduces a firm to its audience: a set of huge responsibility places on him/her.
anyhow, congrats.

[جمہور زندہ باد @CivicDominance]

آئینہ کا بھائی آئی ایس آئی میں ہےاور شوہر کرنل ہےبعدماشی تو دیکھائے گی۔مجھے حیرانی ہے یہ محترمہ ابھی تک یونیورسٹی کی وی سی کیوں نہیں بنی ۔