The Yemeni Government Doesn’t Understand Acronyms
Let me give you a clue: each letter stands for a word. MEI is not the same as MEMRI. MEI is a think tank; MEMRI does translations.
Last week, the Middle East Institute (MEI) published an article, Fighting Brushfires with Battons: An Analysis of the Political Crisis in South Yemen, by authors April Longley and Abdul Ghani al-Iryani. The Yemeni government researched MEI and instead came up with MEMRI.
Because MEMRI is run by an Israeli guy, the official government media is saying the authors are working for Israel or some similar idiocy. This includes the 26 Septemper (sic), website of the Defense Ministry, and al-Motamar, website of the ruling party, who have been on a rampage for a week about the authors’ connections to woooowooooo Israel. The sheer stupidity of the accusations is compounded by the fact that MEMRI didn’t publish it; MEI did.
I can’t believe these people actually run a country. There should be some kind of intelligence test.
