One criticism against Kordahi in a Palestinian news site conflates the war against the Houthis with other Arab wars, especially against Israel, as if they are one and the same long battle against non-Sunni Arabs.
The article by Sheikh Abdul Manan Al-Sunbali describes why these wars are not "absurd." He knows his audience - it isn't Western media or the "progressives" but his own fellow Arabs who share his anger and shame.
Sunbali uses the pure language of shame and vengeance that reveals the real reason most Arabs hate the Jews:
It is a war to restore the Arab dignity lost for more than seventy years!It is a war of proving and confirming the Arab identity and rooting it anew in the hearts of Arab youth!It is a war of revenge for the defeats of 48 and 67 and the victory for the values and history of the Arab and Islamic nation!It is a war to return Yemen to the warm Arab embrace, as Palestine and Iraq should be returned, as well as Andalusia before!It is the war to liberate the islands of Abu Musa, the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, Ceuta, Melilla, the Golan Heights and the Shebaa Farms from the hands of the greedy invaders and occupiers!It is a war to extricate the Arab nation from the clutches of backwardness, rupture, prostration and loss, and its liberation from under the armpits and feet of the foreigner!What's wrong with you, George?!
Sunbali goes on to say that by defending the Houthis, Kordahi might as well condemn Hamas and Hezbollah rockets, or say "that the land of Palestine originally belonged to the Jews and not to the Arabs, and that the Zionists are our cousins and the closest race to us, and that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish state...or you should have said that the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance factions are terrorist groups!"
To too many mainstream Arabs, the truth is what is absurd and lies are the path to honor.
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