Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around!

The houthis are murderous antisemites who don't care about gaza.

I'm not sure that those chanting slogans are capable or willing to do the deep thinking required to solve complex problems but they are wreckers rather than builders. Their solution is to pull everything down but I doubt they'd enjoy or survive what replaces it.

I sometimes think that as a society we are pulling ourselves apart because we don't have common purpose. The sort of regimes that force a common purpose on people are not something I would enjoy, they are generally not friendly to women.

I suppose you’re right. It’s very depressing.

Perhaps, though, it’s better that continuing chanting happens through ignorance than through wilful decision to support Houthi attacks because hatred of Israel eclipses everything else, however monstrous.

Not much of a benefit, granted.

Doubtful. They all appear a thick, chanting the latest catchy tune. No idea who the Houthis are, what country they come from and what they've done. 🤔

Doubtful.

I wonder if this sort of information would make the chanters drop their vocal support for the Houthi. If not, you have to wonder why that would be.

The Houthi - valiantly standing up for the oppressed by protecting lives and human rights…

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/03/27/yemen-houthis-sentence-men-death-flogging

March 27, 2024 12:00AM EDT

A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said today.
In addition to death sentences that include crucifixion and stoning, the Houthi court sentenced 23 men to prison for periods of up to 10 years. Three of them were also sentenced to public flogging.

Indeed they have and sadly Yeman has been largely ignored

The Houthis have got their very own genocide at home by the look of it, and they don't seem keen to stop it.

😥

Pretty much.

These poor starving children are totally ignored. The Houthis who caused this problem in Yeman are actually praised by idiots for attacking ships. Make it make sense!

All starving children need foir aid and help everywhere.

Warning distressing images.

2 victims confirmed as Filipino sailors. The vessel was carrying steel products from China to Saudi Arabia, other crew rescued by the Indian Navy.

news.sky.com/video/share-13089034

I'm wondering if this still makes the protesters "proud" or dismissed as a delayed Amazon delivery.

2 confirmed dead 💔 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68490695

The ship is True Confidence
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68490695.amp
bbc says it is transporting steel products and trucks.

reports I’ve seen (unverified) are claiming that “at least 3 sailors are missing and 4 have been critically wounded following the Houthi missile attack earlier in the Gulf of Aden”. Reuters also mentioned something about 3 sailors missing.

Thank you, I had a look. Claimed to have recruited over 200,000 men

https://www.instagram.com/ghadaalwa/

I recommend reading Elicalebon on Instagram and also Ghadaalwa (who counters the misinformation about Yemen)

Another ship hit today. A Greek ship with 20 crew and 3 security guards hit by Houthis missiles and floating. Not sure if anyone on board hurt or what the ship is transporting.

@qunari
@XRAYTHIS

This is what concerns me not just on the Gaza conflict topic but other topics as well, that people have become so entrenched in their views and opinions become so polarised on both sides that you can actually have what I assume (from the doctorate) is well educated person dismiss the entire international trade system of oil, gas, fertiliser, grain, manufactured goods etc as just some Amazon deliveries. I mean seriously...

It really is an era of Trump'esque politics where actual facts don't matter anymore or are simply countered with whataboutery.

She'll find some excuse for them.

Indeed. She was very scathing of people's Amazon packages being delayed by a few men in dinghies.

Given the environmental damage to the seas off Yemen and the impact on the livelihoods of Yemeni fishermen from sinking ships, I wonder if Dr Myriam Francois would still flippantly (and very ignorantly) dismiss the Houthi attacks on shipping as just some guys in rubber dinghies disrupting Amazon deliveries.

The Houthis really don't care for their people.

They care about as much for their own people as Hamas do for the Palestinians.