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They demand a genocide right on their flags.

The slogan aside, Israelis (sorry, "the Jews") have much, much less to fear from Ansar Allah than the overwhelming majority of Yemenis who aren't Zaydi, those being the people the Houthis are actually working to exterminate.

Big claims with no evidence to back it up. Funny how you are always in any thread mentioning AA to tell us how they are actually the bad guys, and not the west which is conducting a genocide.

You have to have not read anything whatsoever about Ansar Allah (or Yemen) to believe these are big claims. If you want stuff nicely packaged for western audiences, start with Human Rights Watch.

I really do want to encourage you to dig into what Ansar Allah is about, their history, and their implications for Yemen. Clearly, they're situated in the middle of multiple conflicts between other odious governments (including the deeply corrupt previous government of Yemen). But even given that, the Houthis manage to stand out. It's a whole interesting phenomenon that gets into the history of Zaydi Islam and caste system politics.

If you find any credible, detailed, reported source that concludes they are in any way praiseworthy, I'd be sincerely appreciative if you pointed me towards it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movemen...

You do not gotta hand it to the Houthis, who are themselves genocidal.

It is not genocidal to fight back against imperial forces that have destroyed your land and slaughtered your people. Not saying I agree with all of their actions but they do not exist as 'evil' in a vacuum. If you lived on a planet that was constantly bombed by an alien species would you not want to destroy them? Would the pain of only seeing constant suffering and death all around you not blind you with rage? It's just that but at a country scale.

That's not who the Houthis are actually fighting and it's not who they're genocidally threatening. The IDF is not afraid of Ansar Allah. A Sunni Yemeni (or a Zaydi middle schooler who doesn't want to take up arms) sure is, though.

Guardian is not much different than the Sun, Der Spiegel or Foxnews these days. Dont read it or take it with a grain of salt.

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