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Give them back British Governor Sir Charles Napier’s answer to sati: “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs!” [IsraelTimes] The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels says his group will keep launching attacks against Israel, a day after confirming that an Israeli strike had killed their government’s prime minister in Sanaa.
In a televised speech on the Huthis’s Al-Masirah TV, Abdul Malik al-Houthi vows to continue “targeting Israel with missiles and drones” and to escalate these attacks, adding that recent Israeli strikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen will not weaken the group or discourage its fighters.
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