The head of the Yemeni Southern Revolutionary Movement Council, Hassan Baum, affirmed that the southerners support the Palestinian people and their cause, and are only satisfied with what it pleases, after the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council expressed its support for the Emirati-Israeli normalization agreement.
"Since the independence of our southern state in 1967, we have been supporters of the Palestinian people and their cause," Baum said in a statement.
He added that the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen at that time "embraced the cause of the Palestinian people, received Palestinian leaders and revolutionaries, and provided them with training, camps and weapons."
Baum - who lives outside Yemen - added that, "Until now, we continue to confirm that our position is with the Palestinian people in their cause, and we will not accept anything that satisfies them, and we oppose what they oppose in their case, especially since we are witnessing a comprehensive Palestinian position on opposing the deal of the century that reduces Palestine and ends Hope to build an independent state.
Yesterday, Thursday, an agreement to normalize relations between the UAE and Israel was officially announced under American auspices, which the Palestinians officially and popularly described as a betrayal of the Palestinian people and their rights.
Ben Brik supports normalization
The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council described the agreement as a "courageous decision by a wise leader," referring to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed.
Peace be upon you and upon us.
And he lives on peace in which the region lives, and cuts off the bearers of wars and their merchants. https://t.co/jbTm74xqNC
- Hani Bin Brik (@HaniBinbrek) August 14, 2020
Hani Bin Brik, Deputy Chairman of the Southern Transitional Council, said on Twitter that the agreement laid down a road map towards joint cooperation with Israel to reach bilateral relations, adding that it serves the Arabs' choice of a two-state solution, serving the Palestinian people, and ending the trade in the issue, as he put it.
Ben Brik later commented on a tweet by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referring to the agreement with the UAE.
The Southern Transitional Council receives military and political support from the UAE, and on April 25 it declared a state of emergency in the city of Aden and all southern Yemeni governorates, and it would take over its self-administration instead of the local authorities of the internationally recognized government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
And the director of the External Relations Office of the Southern Transitional, Al-Khader Al-Sulaymani, had previously expressed the council’s readiness to establish relations with Israel if this did not conflict with its national interests, as he put it.