Why is Egypt so wary of getting involved in Yemen’s conflict?
- Egyptian forces arrived in Yemen in the thousands, backing the country’s government in a civil war against rebels that threatened to overthrow it.
- But this is not today’s war – this is 1962, and the Egyptians were supporting republican forces in North Yemen against the country’s royalists.
- The intervention came after Yemenis who were friendlier to the Arab nationalist ideology propagated by Egypt under President Gamal Abdel Nasser led a revolution that overthrew Zaidi Imam Mohammad al-Badr – a theocratic monarch.
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- Egyptian forces arrived in Yemen in the thousands, backing the country’s government in a civil war against rebels that threatened to overthrow it.
- But this is not today’s war – this is 1962, and the Egyptians were supporting republican forces in North Yemen against the country’s royalists.
- The intervention came after Yemenis who were friendlier to the Arab nationalist ideology propagated by Egypt under President Gamal Abdel Nasser led a revolution that overthrew Zaidi Imam Mohammad al-Badr – a theocratic monarch.
Sources: Al Jazeera