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yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.

#as a yemeni this post feels very misguided #the houthis are not a good organisation. they're not progressive or freedom fighters. they don't represent yemen #they're very openly and plainly antisemetic #their slogan is literally ٱلْمَوْتُ لِأَمْرِيكَ - ٱلْمَوْتُ لِإِسْرَائِيلِ - ٱللَّعْنَةُ عَلَیٰ ٱلْيَهُودِ #hatred for jewish people is fundamental to houthi rhetoric #which is made weirder by the fact that there are only a handful of jewish people left in yemen #and yet its in their rallying cry #If we don't want antizionism to be conflated with antisemetism we cannot support the houthis #They also bombed our house and killed my cousin #so it does also kill me inside a bit when i hear people parading them around as progressive freedom fighters #and when people conflate them with “yemen did this thing!!” (the houthis are only active in the north and most yemenis do not support them)#Please people of tumblr stop bringing up the houthis hijacking as if it were a good thing #<< prev tags important

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