Hail to the Shining Warrior Spirit of Yemen!

Moral integrity, courage and strategic intelligence combined

Aza Y. Alam
9 min readJan 1, 2024

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Photo by Craig Manners on Unsplash

I awoke from a deep sleep on the 1st of January, 2024, to hear this refrain … ‘Hail to the shining warriors of Yemen!’ It sounded like a hymn… Was I hallucinating the voice of angels singing? No, I don’t drink nor have I ever taken drugs. This was just my own brain, trying to make sense of recent events and waking me up with a dollop of hope!

I’m sure you’ve had the experience that the things we’ve been dwelling on during the previous day or two, shape the thoughts we wake up with.

Alone among the nations, the Houthi men of Yemen have stood up to the ugly, Anglo-American-created entity, Israel and its monstrous bombardment of civilians in Gaza.

Contrary to the propaganda spiel we are being bombarded with by all the media of the West, normal working people, struggling to put food on the table, due to the poor decisions of their leaders, can see that what is being done yet again, after Iraq, after Afghanstan, Syria and Libya… the continous bombing of Gaza homes, hospitals and schools, and universities, amounts again, to sheer slaughter — whole families being buried under the rubble of the Western manufactured bombs, carried by the pilots trained in the West — this is a slughter that should…

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

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