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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did the Houthis attack Russian vessels after they attacked Ukraine? I don’t actually know, so just curious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They didn't, no. What makes the Israel-Palestine conflict more in the Houthi's interest in comparison to the Russian occupation of Ukraine is their ties and support to Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

And that Palestine is literally next door. It might be considered yet another genocide in the West, but people care much more in the Middle East. There's a lot of popular will to do anything to fight Israel (the reason nobody's going to war over this is the aircraft carriers and other US pressure), geopolitics or no geopolitics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope, but Palestine is literally next door. Western people might not understand this, but people in the Middle East care a lot about the Israeli occupation and its injustice against Palestinians. They're regularly referred to as "our Palestinian brothers" for example, while Ukraine is a country most people here only know by name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Western people might not understand this, but people in the Middle East care a lot about the Israeli occupation and its injustice against Palestinians.

Yes, westerners absolutely do not understand this.