Well at least the houthis have ball to attack israeli flagged ship compare to all the sunnis countries in the region .
In fact I find the shias are far more courageous compare to the sunnis who mostly scream and shouting about palestine and yet do nothing.
On surface, it may appears to be like that. But the thing is, you see, these Shia groups are ideologically driven entities under a leadership (Iran) whose end–goal is shaped by fundemental/radical belief system.
Consequently, given the huge power asymmetry between Iran+its proxies and the West, conventional warfare is not an option. Thus, they emphasize on posturing, rethoric and asymmetric strategy to achieve their objective.
And in the porcess they often don't care how much cost their actions consequently imposes on the others. And common sense tells, us most of the time their means and processes does not justify the end.
The very is example what houthies are doing right now. Does their action of disrupting international trade route in red sea helping Palestinians anyway? The answer is NO. does it hurting Israel and imposing cost on them? Sure, but not by much. Israel is an advanced economy backed by the USA.
On the other hand, guess who else their action is also hurting? Countries like Bangladesh.
And it hurting us much more than Israel. Nearly half of our total export is to Europe. That amounts to approximately 30 billions. Majority of this go through Suez canal and red sea. We are a poor developing country that doesn't Petro–dollars in reserve and economy is already in the turmoil. At this point we cannot afford such strain on principle trade route and it will likely to cost us significantly. All of this for practically for no benefit for the Palestinians. So, how is it justified?
They are doing it only to satisfy their ideologically driven emotions and as an asymmetric fighting strategy against the West. And they don't care what cost others has to pay for this.
On the hand, at whatever stage of development various sunni majority states are, nevertheless these countries by and large pragmatic in their foreign policy goals.
They do recognise the reality they live in. Today international political interactions are shaped by nation state structure. It is no longer always feasible to do the morally right thing (in this case helping Palestine) because, of the huge power asymmetry bwtween muslim counries and the West.
And attempting to do so may very well come in expense of their own. And even then, it would not benefit Palestine in any meaningful way. So why just throw your country away without any gain based on short lived emotions.
I mean, look where we stand now, many Muslims countries can barely keep their very own border and sovereignty intact let alone helping others. Even the most powerful ones like Türkiye and Pakistan has to fight evil force within its own border. (Sometimes supported by the West)
There is no muslim superpower like America that can afford (both financially and militarily) significant power projection and expeditionary force posturing for the shake of doing the morally right thing.
Collective Muslim world are far far way from that. If we want to live in a better world where doing the morally right is in top priority list of the international political structure and systematic arrangement instead of everyone's own raw meterial interests, then we have to change whole system that was made in the image of WW2 winners.
And it's not gonna change if you just ask it too. You have to do it yourselves and shape the international system in your own image.
And the only way to do that, is through long term progress, development and cooperation (between countries which share similar vision regarding the future of international geopolitical arrangement.) And when will that happen? Only when we have legitimate responsible democratic governments in our capitals.
Arab monarchies are not going to do it. Their first allegiance is not to their people or to the moral righteousness. Their number one priority is to hold into powers by any means deemed necessary. For that if they needed to cut a deal with devil they will do it in an instant. (And there are historical examples)
For muslim countries to be able to do the morally right thing in the long run (In this case helping Palestine) they need to get their houses in order first. Like Türkiye, they need to focus on long term development and progress, which, if successful will have meaningful impact in the end, unlike short live emotions and rehtorics and unsustainable posturing.
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