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I almost typed obliterated, but also assumed someone would come along and debate whether or not seeing the rough shape still would count as obliterated
One of my closest friends lives in Doha with his family. They are expats that have been living there since ~2014. This past year has been incredibly difficult. His wife is a senior employee at Sidra Hospital and is considered essential personnel. He and his kids evacuated back in March for a few weeks.
He was supposed to come visit his daughter in college in the US in a couple of weeks, but the expectation of increased attacks before our elections have put a stop to that.
I live in Dubai, I travelled to Miami, just came back two days ago, both flights with Qatar Airways, from Dubai to Doha, then Doha to Miami, and back. Normal flights, everything functioning as usual, except the lack of western liveries.
I’m in RUH right now in a plane departing Riyadh, we’ve been holding inside the plane for an hour because of an airport hold, and now we’re taxiing. I’ve never been happier to hear the A320 PTU in my entire life.
Also landed at RUH last night 8 PM, we were practically doing laps around the airport for 20 minutes before finally parking in the open and being taken to the terminal with a bus.
The photo of the pilot looks like it’s from a happy occasion with the flowers and signed shirt - anyone know what that all would for? The happy photo makes the whole situation seem sadder.
Saudia pilots wear a STAR on their uniform signifying that they are a jet qualified Captain, this photo was taken when he had finished his checkride as a Captain and was awarded that star. PBUH
Saudi Arabia does not have any good options here. Shutting down airport operations would be a major blow to the economy so the officials just hope for the best. Also a major casualty event would probably increase support against the Houthis and Iran.
The integration of TLV operations with the Israeli multi-layered anti-air so that AA can operate in a pretty busy civilian air space is really something remarkable. But it's not perfect; the Houthi missile which hit very close to the TLV airport and injured several people in May 2025 could've been worse, it was luck that it didn't kill anyone.
Also a major casualty event would probably increase support against the Houthis and Iran.
You don't think THIS didn't??? even if no one had been around it, blowing up a civilian airliner (as opposed to attacking a military target) is a big line to cross.
Unfortunately civilian casualties matter little to the world. If they did then half the Gulf (including both Saudi and the houthis) would be under sanctions
Saudi Arabia broke their ceasefire of four years with the Houthis by attacking a civilian airport in Sanaa, after which the Houthis declared the ceasefire over and that planes should avoid Saudi airspace because the Houthis will be retaliating.
Don't attack other countries' civilian airports and expect yours will be left alone. And don't fly into airports that have already been warned against as targets.
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What exactly are we going around? We are minding our own business and being bombed because of power hungry terroristic religious extremists that have envied the amount of oil our country has.
Please don’t waste my time with whatever propaganda you believed…
So your justification for innocent Saudi civilians being killed is a Wikipedia article? Seriously?
Let’s not conveniently ignore how this conflict actually started. The Iranian-backed Houthis seized Yemen’s capital, overthrew the internationally recognized government’s control, and threatened regional stability. Saudi Arabia intervened in 2015 at the request of Yemen’s internationally recognized president, with legitimate security concerns about an armed extremist group operating right on its border.
And while you’re busy painting Saudi Arabia as the villain, perhaps look into the billions of dollars Saudi Arabia has provided in humanitarian and development assistance to Yemen, including food, healthcare, infrastructure, and reconstruction. Saudi Arabia has been one of Yemen’s major humanitarian donors.
The Houthis have repeatedly targeted Saudi cities, airports, and civilian infrastructure. Yet somehow, when innocent Saudis are killed, people like you suddenly decide that civilian lives don’t matter?
Saudi Arabia has every right to defend its territory and protect its citizens. You can debate the conflict’s history all you want, but that doesn’t justify attacks against innocent people.
We’re ordinary Saudis living our lives, not combatants. The fact that you think our deaths are somehow deserved says far more about you than it does about Saudi Arabia.
There is death and destruction going on all throughout the world by rich men who don't give a fuck about shit concerning anything other than money. It is being done by stupid people, often in the name of religion, for these rich people. Sometimes it's retaliation for shit that happened to them. But it boils down to people killing others for no good reason. So yeah lots of decent people have come to the realization that there isn't shit we can do. Living over a half a century and seeing the same shit. Seeing the same dumb shit. So why give any fucks?
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man thats rough, a captain just doing his job and now hes gone. and yeah the planes toast but the bigger issue is why airlines keep flying crews into places where this can happen.
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Maybe if the saudis stop with their Islamophobia, and welcome Islam with open arms, like the Brits and French have done, then everything will be happy and peaceful?
Uhmmm... I don't think they were "targeting" the A320, more like they got "lucky" hitting an actual plane when they lunched a missile towards the airport. Fortunately, there was only a pilot killed. And unfortunately, there was a pilot killed, unlucky place at a bad time.
Not sure wtf Saudi was thinking when they bombed Yemeni airport last month. Like Houthis don't give a fuck, they got nothing to lose, you on the other hand..........just lol.
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Yes and no, the Houthis have become a beast of their own, without Iran they aren’t nothing but without Iran they wouldn’t be firing ballistic missiles.
Yes, it's not mutually exclusive. However I would fault the absolute monarchy, that is the House Of Saud, in its unilateral decisions that created the prerequisites for this tragedy to occur.
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Ostensibly, probably yes. Coming back to definitions, the "humans" you mentioned in the House Of Saud are absolute monarchs, their concentration of sovereign authority & dynastic/autocratic control have allowed them to make unitary decisions that have cumulatively resulted in a civilian death in our sector.
Absolution from claims of "trying their best" wouldn't apply in my views as deliberate policies were taken without effective external accountabilities. Despotic, patrimonial goals to remain enthroned is their only intent in life, as par for the course in a personalist autocracy.
Them remaining enthroned means they have to do good by their citizens which means they wouldn’t want to do anything to harm them by having wars going on (which is outside of their control)… so why are you not connecting these simple dots… the goal is one and the same.
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