This is by far one of the worst conflicts that has been happening for many years, and its still very much ongoing, yet little to none is reported by press. Over the many years Yeman has been ignored by our media.

A place that has seen hundreds of thousands killed, Saudi Aribia and the coalition get their "weapons" mainly from UK and other countries and yet not one big protest has happened.

Just makes you think, or it should make you think, why does one conflict get news coverage and why does another worse conflict get mainly ignored? Why do people take to the streets to protest one conflict while a worse conflict gets ignored? Why do students take a stance about their government supplying another with weapons that are used in a conflict and demand a boycott while they same students have ignored what happens to another countries civilians?

Easy answer the media hasn't manipulated them by feeding them bias reporting. UK is the largest weapons exporter that supply UAE they weapons kill and have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Yet media and people are silent, not one protest, not one boycott mentioned in parliament, not one MP going on camera to say supply and support must stop.

Sidenote:

UAE are also involved in the Sudan crisis - UAE supply weapons, they get from UK, to groups inside Sudan. They groups have been killing whole viliges << again mostly unreported and silence from people.

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112574975829426485

The exact numbers of civilians killed in Yemen is actually unknown since numbers on deaths hasn't been reported officially since 2016 - in 2020/21 estimates were around 300.000+ and the war has raged on since then - some say its around 600.000+

The hypocrisy is astonishing.

Millions of people face slaughter or starvation – the UK must stop sending billions in arms exports to Saudi Arabia

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/101240347996114932

Yemen on brink of losing entire generation of children to hunger, UN warns

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/105246389158486993

Houthi rule is “a combination of North Korea, Iran, Taliban, and with the constitution of George Orwell’s ‘1984,’

#Yemen

Except, unlike the Iranians or the North Koreans, they don’t practice any state responsibility, because they don’t have international recognition, which is also international commitments and norms and rules. They have no reference book for anything.

9yrs

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111854517211309729

Think about that - all they years and mostly ignored by international community

@ecksmc oh horrible so sad

@ecksmc
Dude. 😳 💔

I don't know.

Are there no billionaires who care about Yemen like they care about Gaza?

I think it boils down to money.

@janallmac only thing most billionaires care about is money - imo its media manipulation that cause it

Turn on any news channel you'll get coverage of Gaza Israel war, Iran and Lebanon also, go to any media news site its probably the first thing you'll see - this has been ongoing since start - now you have to ask yourself who are they journalists and ask yourself what do they actually believe, do they have an agenda? Again imo most journalists do have some sorta hidden agenda

@janallmac as for money billionaires profit from wars << most will find a way to make money >> reporting a thing means no money(for some)

So, I wouldn't say its about money in that regard

Now billionaires, some, will no doubt have shares in the weapons companies and MPs < less reporting less backlash = more cash (if they own shares in they companies that is)

Money plays a silent roll in wars/conflict mostly

Gaza and Israel war is an information war and hamas knew it controlled that part

@janallmac Israel doesn't depend on UK as much for weapons as UAE does - so the billionaires that own media companies they dont mind as much about reporting on Gaza and Israel war

Again just my opinion - now say they billionaires also have shares in the uk weapons market reporting on what's been happening in Yemen could see an decrease of weapons being purchased by UAE as well as backlash from people like we see happening against Israel

@ecksmc
So...

How does Hamas get the money to control the information? They must have allies with big voices and deep pockets. It is clearly an information war, I can see that easily.

And it sounds like you think maybe people (weapons manufacturers) are profiting on the Yemen war not being reported on. 🤔

@janallmac aid

Its simply from aid from all governments as well as the many charities hamas controlled all that influx of cash since they seized tool control and roll of government in Gaza back in 2016-ish - they have been in power since and stopped votes altogether to stay in power

They've profited millions, billions over thet years

All that money has been used in an information war that dates back to before this war

@ecksmc
Information war and murder tunnels.

It's a shame. They could've spent it on something that helped people.

@janallmac then you also have education and people not understanding the real history of that area hamas knew all this waited and waited then put there plan into actual action

Weapons manufactures are profiting - they'd have probably profited less if Yemen war had been covered the same as Gaza Israel - they'd have still profited though just not as much

@ecksmc Yeah, people generally don't understand the history of that area very well. And then false parallels are drawn between that region and the U.S., which people in the U.S. understand better, and can thus be tricked into sympathizing with some very cruel, violent, and dishonest entities.

@janallmac yup same in UK

In Scotland

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/113460593065630391

😥

@ecksmc
Oh... so the gist of this is they're drawing parallels between Britain invading Scotland and the situation in Gaza? Where Israel is supposedly Britain and Gaza is supposedly Scotland? 🤔 Did I get this right?

If that's the case, then it's a tactic for sure! It's a communications tactic.

And they're using it wherever they can, to bypass facts and play on ancestral emotions.

@janallmac did you read the thread?

As for the football club >> Club origins: Celtic was founded by Irish Catholic immigrants in Glasgow to help poor families, and many fans consider themselves the club's immigrant children - Palestine is basically seen as a mirror image of Ireland and then, in turn, Celtic reflects Ireland in many ways.

There are other posts in that thread about Jewish teachers leaving the teachers union because of antisemitism and rhetoric within the education system

@ecksmc
I skimmed it. 😬 Sorry. Ireland, not Scotland. I see.

@janallmac ahhhh gotcha lol yes you were spot on then 👍

It was mainly the education thing i posted that link for anyway - when teachers show a bias then students being taught by them will eventually become bias over years of being taught that bias - is my point 😉

@ecksmc
Yeah... we have different educational institutions here with a wide variety of teachers, and I have also been thinking about that recently.

One of my closest friends is a physics professor, and I generally love teachers. 💜

But I can see how systemic bias can be problematic. 🤔

And in SO many ways! Not just one way.

For example, where I live, people re-wrote history textbooks to try to whitewash how awful slavery was! I lived that. I know how bias works.

@ecksmc
So if you have politicians and teachers lying to you since childhood, which they demonstrably will do, that will fuck up your world view in myriad ways. 😟 💔

@janallmac indeed

Its up to individuals to keep learning - read things that take us out of our wee bubbles and that makes us feel comfortable - read both sides also and at least try and understand instead of just thinking "i was taught this it must he true"

Everyone can show bias from time to time - I'm not immune thats for sure - keeping an open mind and accepting you could be wrong, been taught wrong, didn't fully understand something, is key - there's always two sides - sometimes more 😉

@ecksmc tragic thanks for the info