Is the world really concerned about war and famine?
Well, if it can’t be blamed on Israel/Jews, maybe not so much.
From Lior Ben Ari’s article at ynetnews.com:
Yemen is enduring one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, with an estimated 85,000 children under five having died from starvation and malnutrition since the civil war began in 2014. The crisis, far worse than the hunger situation in Gaza, remains largely overlooked by the international community.
A Yemeni source opposed to the Iran-backed Houthi movement told AP, “While Gaza has two million people, the Houthis impose a siege on 20 million in Yemen. This hunger is not collateral damage — it’s a deliberate tool for control and extortion.”
Since the Houthis seized large swaths of territory from Yemen’s internationally recognized government in 2014, the country has been devastated by conflict involving a Saudi-led coalition. Although a ceasefire was brokered in April 2022, fighting resumed late last year after the Houthis joined hostilities against Israel, further worsening the humanitarian disaster.
Between 2014 and 2018, aid group Save the Children estimated that roughly 85,000 children died from severe malnutrition without treatment. “Since then, reliable data is scarce because the Houthis restrict aid operations,” the source said.
UNICEF’s August 2024 report warned of a “critical” rise in malnutrition in government-held areas, particularly along the western coast near Houthi-controlled zones. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), cases of severe malnutrition among children under five in these areas increased by 34% from 2023. Over 600,000 children are affected, including 120,000 with acute malnutrition. Some 223,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women were also severely malnourished last year.
A question for you: in the last year, how many articles do you recall reading about the situation in Yemen? Or, for that matter Syria (where somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 were killed during al-assad’s regime) or Libya (which barely has any government at all)?
Now think about how many articles you’ve read in the past week about those terrible Israelis, who dared to successfully fight the terrorist group that started a war by massacring 1,200 – 1,400 people and taking over 250 hostage.
The lesson to be learned here? The lesson so-called peace organizations and both national and international media are teaching us now, as they have in the past?
If you can’t pin it on Israel/Jews, who cares?
That’s worth remembering…and reminding others about.
