Leaders denouncing attacks on Saudi airports ignored the bombings of Sana\u2019a, Craig Murray has told Rick Sanchez<\/p>\n
Western governments have shown blatant bias in favor of Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement, partly because Riyadh spends billions of dollars on Western weapons, former British diplomat Craig Murray has argued.
\nMurray discussed the prolonged conflict and its ties to the arms industry with RT\u2019s Rick Sanchez in the latest episode of \u2018Sanchez Effect\u2019. The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan argued that the conflict in Yemen has deep roots in British colonial policies.
\nSanchez pointed to the vast sums Riyadh has spent on weapons from Britain, France and other Western countries during its campaign against the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah.
\n\u201cThey may have all the weaponry and all the money but they have no belief in their own cause,\u201d Murray responded.
\n\u201cIn the last 12 years since Ansar Allah controlled the airport in Sana\u2019a I found 27 different times the Saudis have bombed Sana\u2019a airport,\u201d Murray added, \u201cand not on one of those 27 times did the European Union condemn the Saudis.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former diplomat contrasted the lack of Western criticism of Saudi strikes with the swift condemnation of recent Houthi attacks on airports in Saudi Arabia.
\nMurray and Sanchez also discussed how Western audiences have historically been conditioned to regard people in other parts of the world as dishonest or uncivilized, and the media\u2019s role in shaping those perceptions.<\/p>\n
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The former ambassador expressed hope that younger generations, unlike many of their parents, are increasingly unwilling to accept media narratives without questioning them.
\nWatch the exchange or tune in to \u2018Sanchez Effect\u2019 for the full episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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