The situation in Yemen ... in case you want to know

Ahh ... as far as the media is concerned, this uprising is happening on another planet in a far, far away galaxy. The cuddly and cute Palestinians and their PR firms have made sure that the aggressive Palestinians get all the media attention. Who cares about Yemen. And, who cares about NATO bombing residential areas in Libya. Nobody.  The PR firms will drive us crazy talking about those blasted Palestinians and their palatial "refugee camps" and their morn to night whining about everything under the sun.   Does anyone ever tell you that most of the murderers of 9/11 were of Palestinian extract having Saudi passports?  Public Relations firms are like what the dot.com phenomena was a few years ago. I am waiting for the day when the PR firms collapse just like the dot.com empires had done. 



...This week's violence should be a spur to break this stalemate. But I fear that it is more likely that the world will simply continue to ignore what's happening in Yemen. Most of the attention of the Middle East policy community this week will be directed instead towards the drama of the Palestinian bid for recognition at the United Nations. Few in the West see many major interests in Yemen beyond the narrow, exclusive -- and in today's context nearly indefensible -- focus on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The endless reports of horrors from Syria, and before that Libya, have numbed people to what must seem just one more episode in an endless litany of atrocities....