I have often wondered do the rich arab states that have so much spare money that they by up english football clubs and harrods individuals arabs boost owning more than 500 race horses, and build offshore islands for the pure pleasure, ever help neighbours like yemen? Which according to the press and charity appeals is having a serious drought anyone got any answers or is it always uslot of dogooders?
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Northeastfarmer
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Wish the uk would have a mini drought
Exfarmer
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Helping the fellow human , does not seem to come to Moslem thought, although they are supposed to give 10% of their income to good works, it does not cover other races .
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Not down here thanks. Might lose a lot of summer grazing next year if we don’t get a winter top up and then some.
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It is in their mindset that "charity begins at home". ( Which probably should be ours also) Having lived in the Middle East for many years I have seen them care for their own through the mosques by gifts of money and or goods.
SRRC
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Just come back from Botswana, that's very dry too.
grainboy
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Yemen,
It’s the Arabs bombing them, supporting the Government,
Hardly think they will send relief money,
It’s the Arabs bombing them, supporting the Government,
Hardly think they will send relief money,
Exfarmer
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Yemen has its own self made drought, they are perpetually short of water being quite densely populated and the Arabian peninsula being a very dry part of the world. To compound this a large amount of water is used irrigating crops of Khat a narcotic widely used and also exported to neighbouring Somalia, a country to dry to grow its own
Northeastfarmer
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Behave
Chae1
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Careful what you wish for.....
Northeastfarmer
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Wish the uk would have a mini drought
Maybe we could start another drought thread on here, where we post our daily rainfall amounts...
ollie989898
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The Arabic states are generally totally unlike any European countries.
Take Saudi Arabia. Outwardly Islamic, following the Sunni denomination of Islam. Allegedly detest Jews, Christians and the Shia interpretation of Islam. For this reason they detest Iran, whom on the other hand, detest Israelis, yet have Jewish and Christian members of their own parliament.
Anyway, we perceive Saudi Arabia as some homogeneous entity that is governed under the will of the Saudi royal family. In reality, that is false. In Saudi Arabia, one's loyalty is to your family and the local 'tribe' for want of a better word. Because of this, Individual Saudis do not tend to perceive themselves as one unified nation- patriotism, as a concept does not exist. This then goes some way to explaining your original question. If individual Saudis do not even really recognise their own government as an institution in common with their own citizens, why would they even think beyond their own borders to a collection of other tribes in Yemen?
The above also explains why anyone in any kind of official government office, will be a relative of the royal family and their loyalty will be rewarded hugely for many years, even once they have retired and left office.
The Saudis have a somewhat chequered history with Yemen and Egypt, but because they have always been outwardly stable (by middle eastern standards) and are sympathetic to US interests, they are genuinely the most powerful state in the area. This is somewhat perverse because so much as attempting to punch another Muslim on the street in Saudi is basically tantamount to attempted murder. The idea of conflict between two Muslims is deemed unthinkable almost- it took the government 3 days to admit Iraq had invaded Kuwait, for example.
They are only involved in Yemen because they fear any change to the regime there might be problematic for the Monarchy.
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We did.
Last October to June this year.
Not that you'd know it now. Had to abandon the forklift today after 6 attempts at trying to drive up a grassy slope that I've never even thought of as much of an issue before.
Sussex Martin
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Last week on the local news it was suggested by Southern Water that people reduce water usage by 25% because aquifers and reservoir levels are so low.
Northeastfarmer
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And we all know what happened they last time they imposed a hosepipe ban...
Sussex Martin
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Yes I certainly remember, they probably think that this announcement will have the same effect, however we have not had the amount of rain that the rest of the UK have had. We just get a few hours of spoiling rain most of the time with nothing sustained or meaningful.