Why are they so shunned even by other Arabs and Muslims?
Because they don’t want to end up fighting Israel ( a nuclear power) or the US
Palestinians have no big friends (at least none who want to admit to it and become a target).
Most of Palestine’s admitted friends are little people, Western uni/college students.
I have always wondered who Israel’s nukes were pointed at, intended for ?
because they are not Arabs, as told to me by an ex Iraqi University lecturer
Article about the political side of things.
This is the last two paragraphs.
Michael Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East under the Trump administration, said the Pentagon’s goal with the new maritime coalition appeared to be to make any future Houthi attacks an international issue in order to divorce it from the Israel-Hamas war.
“Once the military vessels in Operation Prosperity Guardian start protecting commercial shipping and come under a direct attack, (the Houthis) will be attacking the coalition, not just the U.S.,” Mulroy said.
After a bit of research, I find that the answer to whether Palestinians are Arabs or not depends on who you ask. The majority of the Arab world clearly thinks they are not. The discrimination appears to be based on the perception that they are ethnically closer to the Jews in spite of their adoption of the Arab language.
hence they all want rid of them
And that leads to the next question: why does the hate toward the Jews rise to the level of wanting to exterminate them?
Do you think that somehow disproves my comment?
Palestinians are Sunni Muslim Arabs. This is where most of them live:
2 million in Gaza
3 million in West Bank
2 million in Israel
2 million in Jordan
600,000 in Syria
500,000 in Chile
400,000 in Saudi
300,000 in Qatar
250,000 in Lebanon
250,000 in USA
200,000 in UAE
70,000 in Egypt
50,000 in Iraq
50,000 in Canada
The Iranians are Not Arabs, they are Persian.
not at all, what you say is probably true also
The people of Shem, one of Noah’s Sons
Hence the term Semite
Historical, not used very much any more, touchy and somewhat ironic.
The term “Anti semitic” does not seem to apply to a hatred of Palestinians or Arab like groups.
This likely was what the Jerusalem Post was reporting on 2 Jan.
https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1742389041725886957
On Jan. 2, at approximately 9:30 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from Houthi controlled areas in Yemen into the Southern Red Sea. Multiple commercial ships in the area reported the impact of the ASBMs into the surrounding water though none have reported any damage. These illegal actions endangered the lives of dozens of innocent mariners and continue to disrupt the free flow of international commerce. This is the 24th attack against merchant shipping in the Southern Red Sea since Nov. 19.
These attacks are really a nuisance, intended to disrupt supply chains to western economies but they are also vehicle for Iran (and whomever else) to highlight the new multi-polar geopolitical reality in which we live. The days of dropping some bombs to get every one in line are over.
The only way to make the attacks stop is to invade Yemen, who the Saudis spent 10 years and a half a trillion trying to defeat (and lost), find a political solution, or just accept this as the new normal. As a reminder the average cost of the missiles used to intercept these cheap drones is $2.5 million dollars (the SM 3 for ballistic missile intercepts is $11 million a missile) and the average Yemeni drone cost is less than $20 thousand.
Couple on Houthi capability
Was the Iran bombing a ricochet from 50 years of terror funding or a message to get one of their funded terrorist groups out of the Red Sea?
Who has most to lose with Red Sea and Persian Gulf closed
or bomb whoever funds them…
maybe they just did
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$20,000 missile incoming to US destroyer. No hesitation, fire 11 million dollar missile and take it out.
Same cheap missile targeting rusty FOC bulk carrier. Hmm.
That won’t fix it either. Might send gas to $8 a gallon though.
That’ll dovetail nicely with the gubmint’s single minded push for people to get rid of their gas burners and buy electric cars.
That worked well 