Shadee Elmasry – Yemen Strikes Back at Israel Robert Carter

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.