Shadee Elmasry – Yemen Strikes Back at Israel Robert Carter
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Speakers discuss Yemen's actions against Iranian pilots and shooting of innocent people, as well as Saudi Arabia's actions towards Iran. They speculate about the reasons behind Iran's actions, including attacks on Iranian ships and the potential for Iran to use oil crisis as a means to strike at Yemen. Yemen is caught up in a war and is not ready to stand by Islam, but has a history of violence and reform. The use of various tactics, including carrier ships and helicopters, is discussed as a way to avoid war and damage the country. Islam is seen as a reforming force and challenges faced by Yemenis in protecting their people.
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So Yemen is one of the few Arab world countries that has actually
done anything meaningful to hit back if you like. Israeli regime
began its its attempted conquest of Gaza.
They have entered they've literally entered the war. They've
declared war on Israel. They fired, I think some ballistic
missiles and some drones at Israel directly. They have we're in
Israel. That's right. They've come and did they've
detained some cargo shipping at least one. And there have been
other attacks, reported attacks on other things, an oil tanker was
targeted off the south coast, not far off of the coast of add in the
southern capital of Yemen. So Yemenis have basically entered the
war directly. But of course, there are other we know there's a France
on in South Lebanon as well.
And then, of course, we're going to wait and see how things
escalate. But I think overall, let me just be clear about this. I
think that the the response by the Muslim world in general, generally
speaking, has been poor. from a political standpoint. I think that
we're literally witnessing the mass murder of Arab innocence,
women and children. And basically, the Arab world politically has
done practically nothing. I mean, how there's this this
misconception that Arab Arabs are wealthy and are privileged and a
more prestigious than other people because they live these luxury
lifestyles of skyscrapers and gold and huge banquets. But with all
that money, how worthless are they when the blood in their veins is
so is so cheap that they can I mean, what are we standing at now?
15,000, innocent, killed, slain, mostly women and children in Gaza.
And there's there's like no reaction to it. There's no
reaction, there's no sanctions, the oil still flows to the west.
In fact, there are still economic ties with many of these Arab
countries to Israel, still.
There's been some minor blowback.
Some ambassadors called back, but it's disgraceful. And these, the
leadership in these countries still have the audacity, the gall
to talk about the issue as if they're somehow defending the
Palestinians rights. They condemn Israel. If you're not going to do
anything. Be quiet, shut your mouth. How dare you speak as if
you're defending the Palestinians when you're literally doing
nothing? And the murders are happening right now, going back to
what Yemen is doing? Where are they attacking Israel? Like, are
they in random locations? Are they
aiming at specific locations? And where are they firing from?
Basically, there is a city in the south of occupied Palestine. I
believe it's called Aliette Aliette. I think I'm pronouncing
it right. That's received the brunt of Yemen's ballistic missile
strikes.
Obviously, it's disputed on how accurate or effective they've
been.
I think there hasn't been any major escalation recently. The big
question is, Will Israel respond? Would they directly attack Yemen?
That's a question on many people's minds in response to this. As we
know, Israel has a habit of attacking its neighbors. They
attack Lebanon all the time they attack Syria all the time. And
obviously they attack occupied Palestine Gaza all the time. But
would they go as far as to attack Yemen? Now they even need to, like
Yemen is like a little miskeen.
You know, I'm surprised Yemen even made their way up.
So they you took their ships one around the corner, right, or came
straight out, I then went up the Red Sea. Right and are firing from
there. So how has Israel not taste taken out that ship you said to
the power shift here is not even comparable? So how have they just
not knocked out that ship? I don't understand why they're letting
them are they letting them do this so that they could justify some
kind of other product, consider it a provocation.
I think that there is quite a distance between Yemen and
occupied Palestine and it's a very busy shipping lane through a
through the Red Sea.
There's a lot of shipping going through there. And it's quite a
vital connection route between, like the oil rich Gulf, Arab Gulf
countries and, and Europe basically as they go through Egypt
and on the Turanian.
They've decided to target any cargo shipping links to Israel in
any way, as a type of sanctioning strategy to pressure for for for
for them to end their aggression on Gaza. Like what the Somali
pirates, it doesn't, there isn't necessarily a lot of Israeli
military presence in the Red Sea that we know of, to the point
where they could maybe deflect because, you know, Yemenis using,
from what I've seen,
hit and run sort of tactics, they use smaller vessels. They're using
helicopters to land on passing cargo ships, so they can hit hard
and fast basically. And it would be very difficult to anticipate
when Yemenis are going to strike. These are the types of tactics
they're using, I guess you could call them a type of guerrilla
tactic. But Yemen, although it's a country, which is it's gone
through a long war, it's it's gone through its own major hardships.
Don't Don't Don't, don't mistake the Emily people's determination
to stand by Islam and stand by Palestine. That's one thing which
I'll give the Yemenis credit for. They love Palestine, they love
Islam. It's an incredibly religious country. And it's an old
fashioned Arab country as well, all of the all of its neighboring
Arab countries where you associate traditional Arab values to their
kind of reforming now, to the point where you may actually not
recognize how Arabs behave in those countries compared to maybe
one or two generations. Just one generation back. Yeah, exactly.
He's changing so fast. But Yemen, on the other hand, is a little bit
time locked in that sense. So yeah, the concepts of, you know,
fighting for Islam, basically, it's very strong there. And
although Yemenis, this is what I was speaking to the journalist
about.
He was use of use of was his name, he basically explained that
Yemenis. They've been dying in large numbers for years, for
their, for their for their own country. They're willing to do the
same for Palestine. It's as simple as that. And that's something
which I think,
has to be noted, it's as simple as that. I think it's so unique. Now,
when you look at how the their neighbors are behaving, when it
comes to Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and so on, they're
looking to normalize with the apartheid regime that's killing
Arabs in
Yemen, on the other hand, is is literally fighting them. How crazy
is that, that you have the these these Arab countries, the
normalization countries attacking Muslims in Yemen for years, I
think over 100,000 Yemenis have been killed so far that we know
of. But yeah, it's that country, the one that they've been
attacking, they actually stood up for Palestine. There is a logic
here that
there's a logic that when you've been fighting for your life, for a
long period of time, it's very, the fight button is very easy to
locate. Right? When you've been been getting hit for so long. The
mindset of exposing yourself to another hit is sometimes there.
And you see that all the time when people were fighting for their
lives for a long period of time, although on the outside, they look
weak. But on the inside,
the fight ethic is alive and well.
In the contrast that those who are very strong, and because of their
strength, haven't needed to fight, when it comes time to fight,
despite their external strength, they can't find the button. They
can't find the internal mechanism the button to push that says
fight. And that's where in the world of Muslims you find that
it's the poorest and it's, I think it's universal, the poorest the or
downtrodden. Those are the people they've so accustomed to this, and
they don't have much to lose in the first place that are most
willing to defend their people.
Those who have living comfortably and do have a lot to lose.
They don't have that button. Right and they never show up. And that's
your I think universally throughout history. You find those
situations.