The international envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, is making efforts to bring together the Yemeni parties around the negotiating table and look for a consensual formula to get out of the current crisis.

With the exception of the Houthis, the parties concerned bless those efforts, but the Houthis are investing these efforts to gain more time to rearrange their ranks and mobilize more fighters to the west coast front and various Yemeni fronts.

The inflexibility of the positions of the Houthis is a stumbling block that obstructs the efforts of the UN envoy, who, in turn, does not exert pressure on the Houthis to move them - even a little - from their rigid positions. Instead, Griffith resorts to exert pressure on the legitimate government to extract concessions that he cannot extract from the Houthis or perhaps be exerting pressures on the Houthis is not in his agenda. One of the reasons for this, according to observers, is that the Houthis file is one of the items of the Iranian nuclear file in its unspoken understandings with the international negotiators and this allows the opportunity for the Houthis to maneuver and play on the margin of those understandings and escape from any obligations.

One of the manifestations of the Yemeni crisis is that international resolutions regarding Yemen, such as resolution 2216, have no effect on the political sphere of that crisis, including the way of dealing with it by the international envoys and the international system itself that issued those resolutions, in the end the lack of seriousness of the international system in the implementation of its decisions has led to the sustainability of the crisis of Yemenis and prolong their wars.

The Houthi group originated mainly as a fighting group and it is armed with a combat doctrine full of claims of sectarian selection and the sacred right to rule. According to the group doctrine, it does not believe in partnership with the other or in the peaceful transfer of power, and this is another essential reason of hindering peace talks with it.

Since the emergence of the Houthi movement on the Yemeni scene, politics has not been one of its tools to express itself as much as its violent behavior was a blunt expression of it. It has shown itself from the very first moment as a fighting group that hides a vengeance from the Yemenis, refuses to coexist with them and takes violence and terrorism as the only means to achieve its political goals, which - for that - has brought Yemen into a whirlpool of six successive wars (June 2004 - February 2010) within what looks like unannounced political agreement with the former regime that had its own goals from those wars.

The Houthis remained a closed ideological group that works in killing and wars, further more it degrades the Yemenis, and do not believe in that they have a right except to be followers of them and under their own conditions. However, the Yemenis extended their hands to the Houthis and pushed them to work with them within the framework of the policy they fear and reject, through the National Dialogue Conference (2013) and through the Peace and Partnership Agreement held after their entrance the capital and their coup against the legitimacy (2014). But they quickly broke their promises and commitments and returned to the cycle of violence and armed action, declaring a comprehensive war against the Yemenis, but failed miserably to establish a credible political model or deal with it.

The infrastructure of the Houthis remained a fighter military structure lacking the most basic traditions of civilized political action, and as a result, the two former international envoys, Jamal Ben Omar and Ismail Ould Cheikh, failed to convince the Houthi group of the political choice as the safest way to reorganize the Yemeni home according to the interests and choices of the people. In his last briefing to the Security Council (28 February 2018), Isma'il Ould Cheikh admitted that the Houthis are the cause of the crisis in Yemen, stressing that they are not ready for a political solution and that they do not care with the interests of the Yemeni people.

Unfortunately, that every international envoy to Yemen does not start from where his predecessor ended, but insists on starting from the beginning point (Zero point), which is a pampering of the Houthis that worsens the situation.

While Yemenis are still suffering from the tragedy of the war and its catastrophic consequences for them and the future of their children, internationally supported solutions do not appear to be interested in solving Yemen and Yemenis problem as much as they are interested in solving the Houthis problem, even though they proved to all that they are not true partners in peace.

A large part of the papers of the peaceful solution in Yemen is in the hands of the international community, which is the international resolutions maker that frames the Yemeni crisis, and it has to be firmer in implementing its resolutions if it really wants to end the crisis and the war in Yemen. The Yemenis do not demand more than what came in those resolutions. If the international parties remain lenient with the Houthis who are hindering the peace process, the war will continue and the sufferings of the Yemenis will continue and the suffering of the Yemenis will be long. According to all the signs and past experiences, the Houthis are not ready for peace. They have no choice but to fight. Either the international community intervenes to end this farce or leave the legitimacy and its national army to do their tasks.