Yemen’s Houthis have seized an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea after vowing to target Israeli vessels in the region over Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
The Houthis forces seized the Bahamas-flagged Galaxy Leader, a car carrier that’s owned by Ray Car Carriers, a shipping firm that was founded by Israeli shipping mogul Abraham “Rami” Ungar. Ray Car Carriers, which is based in the Isle of Man, is still believed to be owned by Ungar, at least partially.
Israeli officials are insisting that the ship is not Israeli because it’s British-owned and currently operated by a Japanese company. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said 25 crewmembers had been taken hostage by the Houthis and that no Israelis were onboard.
Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen reported on the ship seizure and put the number of crew members higher, saying 52 people were detained by the Houthis. According to AP, the Houthis said they were treating the crew members “in accordance with their Islamic values.”
The Houthis also said that “all ships belonging to the Israeli enemy or that deal with it will become legitimate targets.”
The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, have been firing missiles and drones at Israel over the Israeli assault on Gaza. The Houthis have also recently downed an American MQ-9 Reaper drone that was flying near Yemen and is believed to have fired a drone at a US warship in the Red Sea.
The US has been at war with the Houthis since 2015 by backing a Saudi-UAE coalition against them, which has included helping enforce a blockade on Yemen. A ceasefire between the Saudis and the Houthis has held relatively well since April 2022, but no lasting peace deal has been signed.
The plot thickens….
No, this is just stupid.
Why do you think it’s stupid?
Because it accomplishes nothing.
Agreed.
I disagree.
In the early 2000, many ships were boarded and their crew kidnapped in the exact same area. Back than it was Somali pirates.
The west response was somewhat disproportionate and bloody.
The same will happen to the Houthis if this becomes a trend.
This stupid act may shift the tides of the Yamen civil war and the power balance between its proxies (Iran and Saudi Arabia)
My one word response was not the best. So let me re state my position.
I agree with Analyzer that it was a stupid act that will bring no good.
So I think you and I are in agreement because I agree with your post.
The cost of genocide just went up.
Gotta love the stones on those motherf*ckers. They’ve been fighting off genocide for nearly a decade and they still make time to stand up for other people getting wiped out by the same empire. Solidarity is survival.
They are all taking their orders from the nasty guys in the East.
seized an “Israeli-Linked Ship”
really, WTF does that even mean ?
oh, hold on a minute, =
Houthis forces seized the Bahamas-flagged Galaxy Leader, a car carrier that’s owned by Ray Car Carriers, a shipping firm that was founded by Israeli shipping mogul Abraham “Rami” Ungar.
really, a “car carrier” = Israeli cool-guys are using your tax-dollars to battle Islamic auto thieves ?
what.
at some point the people of the world will figure out what exactly needs to be figured out.
edit) = bring it on you dim-wit bastards
It wouldn’t take many incidents like this to cause significant ripples in the marine insurance world. Israeli-linked shipowners (and charterers, et al.) will be well aware of that.
True, but it will not take many incidents like this before Houthis find themself on the receiving end of 2000 pound bombs.
Perhaps. No doubt the Houthis know the risks. They have experience in calculating such things.
Another nut job group that wants to cause trouble and don’t care about the price that will be paid.
Nutty indeed Tim. I say they don’t even have the capacity to understand the severity of the price they’ll surely pay at the righteous hands of the civilized and rules-based world. Alas, These savages remind me of another group of trouble making nut jobs in North America.
Remember that critically acclaimed film The Birth of A Nation? The black character Gus chasing that pure-as-the-driven snow white girl. With savage lust and larceny in his heart. Running stooped low to give his arms elongated appearance of an ape. Wet crotch because this savage hyper-sexual Black man couldn’t be-hold such pure beauty without busting a nut in his pants. Of course she chooses to leap of the cliff instead of getting deflowered by Gus. The shining white nights, and in this Film, literally the hooded KKK lynch party show up too late.
I hate cliches Tim, but the more chit changes, the more it stays the same, comes to mind. Same Anglo-zionist aggressor, just a different savage.
This anomalous 500 yr epoch of Western White-Folk rule and supremacy, is coming to an end Tim and the BS will overshadow all the good when history is written.
What? You do know that we are talking about hijacking ships which is an act of war. Not some movie based on a pro Ku Klux Klan Historical Romance novel written some 100 plus years ago.
Neither the US nor Israel seem to consider it an act of war. At least when they engage in it.
They don’t hijack ships, they confiscate them. LOL.
When others do the same thing the US and its allies have done it is then hijacking ,piracy and act of war. Do as we say not as we do. This applies to so many things in the world today.
“The United States has acknowledged that it seized cargo containing nearly one million barrels of Iranian oil earlier this year, a move that had inflamed tensions in the Gulf.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/9/8/us-confirms-seizing-iranian-oil-cargo-earlier-this-year
World is full of hypocrites, liars, and self righteous deceivers who demand others follow the rules that they themselves ignore so often.
There were many 2000 US supplied pound bombs dropped on them by MBS of Saudi Arabia. That didn’t break them. Remember Afghanistan. The more bombs dropped the more resolute they become.
There is truth to what you say. Bombing very rarely breaks the will of an enemy. But what is the alternative? You can not just let them wreck the shipping lanes. So you have to destroy their ability to carry out those attacks. That one can do.
Very few ships fly the flag of the US or Israel. They are owned and controlled, but fly “flags of convenience” to avoid law and fees. They can mistreat crew, and avoid Coast Guard regulation for safety. They can duck taxes that fund ports and shipping safety. They also incidentally are not legally American or Israeli, but we all know what they really are — American and Israeli.
Few European ships use flags of convenience. It is an American tax and law avoidance system, also used by Israel. It does not work the same way under the laws of other countries. Only we allow these abuses.
Yes, there were Israelis on board with second foreign passport…!
And you know that how?
It is sad that except for the Houthi’s no one is taking any effective action to oppose the Israeli mass murders in Gaza. Iran, Syria and Hezbollah give lip service to the resistance but are making it clear they want to stay out of the fight. likewise Turkey. China and Russia are not doing anything effective to support Palestine The people of the Arab monarchies fervently support the Palestinians so the regimes verbally condemn the Israeli aggression. . But the monarchist regimes were defanged after the unsuccessful oil boycott following the 1973 war and will not challenge the US or Israel again.
Sadly, the Palestinians have only themselves to depend on, plus what pressure the people of the world can put on our governments.
What would you want them to do? Expand the war?
Or That Deal With It… meaning EU and any other countries complicit in Israeli war crimes…!
That would be stupid to attack EU shipping.
Yes, Ship is not Israeli, but it is owned by two Israeli billionaires..! Lol…!