Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday that Israel was ready to act against the Houthis in Yemen if the US and its allies do not.
“Israel is giving the world some time to organize in order to prevent this but if there isn’t to be a global arrangement, because it is a global issue, we will act in order to remove this naval siege,” Hanegbi told Israel’s Channel 12.
The Houthis have been targeting Israeli-linked commercial vessels and firing missiles and drones at Israel in response to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. Hanegbi’s comments came after reports that said the Biden administration told Israel to leave it to the US to take care of the Houthis.
US officials have told POLITICO that the Biden administration is not planning to strike the Houthis, at least for now. The US has backed a Saudi-led coalition in a war against the Houthis since 2015, although a ceasefire has held relatively well since April 2022. Any US attacks on the Houthis could threaten the truce.
For the time being, the US is looking to form an international naval task force to get its allies to help protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis have shown no sign of backing down as they warned they would target any ships that are bound for Israel. On Sunday, the French military said a French frigate shot down two drones in the Red Sea that were fired from Yemen.
The situation in Yemen and the Red Sea is just one area where Israel’s assault on Gaza is spilling out into the region. Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire across Israel’s northern border, and Israeli officials are now threatening war in Lebanon if Hezbollah does not move back from the border.
When asked if there was a chance of war in Lebanon, Hanegbi said, “The situation in the north must be changed. And it will change. If Hezbollah agrees to change things via diplomacy, very good. But I don’t believe it will.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened major destruction in Beirut if the situation with Hezbollah escalates into a full-blown war. “If Hezbollah decides to open an all-out war, then with its own hands it will turn Beirut and southern Lebanon, which are not far from here, into Gaza and Khan Yunis,” he said.
Axios reported last month that some US officials were concerned that Israel might purposefully provoke Hezbollah as a pretext to launch a wider war in Lebanon.
If Israel really provokes Hezbollah, Israel has to remember that Hezbollah has (reportedly) over 100,000 rockets. There are several site in Tel Aviv that Hezbollah could hit. One is a chlorine plant. I sincerely hope it does not come to that. I also hope that Israel does not use a tactical nuke on Iran in an effort to dispatch of that country.
When will Israel fight the entire Muslim world? After 100,000 dead Palestinians? A million? I guess we’ll find out soon enough if Israel prepared enough nuclear weapons. Israel is so nice. It has enough nukes to nuke all its neighbors. That’s why they’ve been calling it, “THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS.”
Israel will never fight the entire Muslim world. That is USA’s role.
I mean, not the ENTIRE Muslim world. Probably just the local neighbourhood between Libya and Pakistan, and between Turkey and the Gulf of Aden.
Indonesia is probably fine.
Friends don’t blackmail friends, but that’s exactly what Biden’s bosom buddy is doing…
“Nice little election campaign you’ve got going there … Be a shame if something happened to it”
Biden has always been a warmonger. No blackmail necessary.
Israel are recent buddies with the Saudis, so they won’t be having a fight any time soon
IF SOMEONE VOTES A PERSON DOWN, SHOULD THEY NOT EFFORT TO TELL US WHY?
DON JULIO?….
Don Julio is sitting in his Mom’s basement again. Anyone know her phone number?
Best Post of The Day…!
She’s been banging Putin, so you could try calling the Kremlin.
“Anyone know her phone number?”
36-24-36.
Ha-hah, only if she 5’3.
Persons aren’t voted down. Comments are. Presumably because the people voting them down don’t like them.
It’s like angry monkeys tossing poop. At least explain what you don’t like, why, and corresponding sources. Otherwise, it is a tantrum.
ROTFLMAO!
No, not every registration of like or dislike is a “tantrum,” even if it’s not accompanied by 3,542 pages of explanation for the reasons.
Largely it’s the same people who downvote, never bothering with a counter argument or explanation. If there is a response, that means someone has the respect and courtesy to make clear objections. Otherwise, poop tossing.
Please release Rabbi Weiss’ youtube video from moderation. He is a decent man.
I released the video from moderation because, so far as I can tell, it doesn’t violate the site’s guidelines. Neither your request, nor whether or not he’s a “good man,” has any bearing on the matter.
He said nothing inflammatory and is against genocide which puts him in a decent category.
That’s all very well and nice. And has nothing whatsoever to do with whether content featuring him is allowed here.
Whatever Knapp.
He downvotes based on who he can remember disagreeing with him regarding the Ukraine/Russia war. Doesn’t matter if the comment section is from an article totally unrelated to the Ukraine/Russia war.
Meh, it’s Internet Democracy at work. Like IRL democracy – it doesn’t do much or change much and a better system is a long way off.
I see it a lot on those dreadful AP or MSN “news” pages where Comments are turned On (especially on ‘sensitive’ stories where the Comments are Off) – people try to express their displeasure with the Dislike button, either on the story as a whole or against specific comments.
YouTube’s thought-policing was at least overt enough that they don’t show Downvotes on a video (the creator can see them, but not viewers) any more.
It sounds very much like extortion.
Israel, like Don Quixote, is about to jump on its war horse backwards and ride off in all directions at once.
Netanyahu and his Zionist Regime is a reincarnation of Hitler and his Nazi Regime. Hate, War, Destruction to ALL who don’t bend over, that is their form of Democracy.
Ginah:
You are totally spot on.
he is Tzachi In Charge
Bibi must expand this war at any cost. Otherwise his political days are done.
So let me see here… Israel seems intent on creating an even LARGER WAR???
Yep. As long as the war goes on, Bibi stays out of jail. So far.
I dare you do it…!
Israel is going rogue…
Israel:
Get on the Peace Train (Cat Stevens).
I want to see the survival of the Jewish State and the Palestinian State…
There is currently no Palestinian State…!
In what universe?
Name a country called Palestine….!
All the UN labeling is just mumbo jumbo’s…!
Are we talking about the real part of this complex name, or the imaginary part?
Jewish religious leader reveals how he feels about Israeli aggression in Gaza
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNtMV2i8-8
I have read that the USA’s overall Department of “Defense” strategy is to maintain the capability to fight two wars simultaneously; does Prime Minister Napoleonetanyahu think he can wage 4+ wars all at once ??? (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen – with 50% off a war with Iran at checkout)
I might remind him a) Judges 1:19 said his god “could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron” so don’t expect divine intervention to help… and b) his god’s not on his side ’cause his god hates idiots, also.
US has supported Saudi atrocities in Yemen for how long now? And now Israel, which is already in quite a messy and genocidal affair wants to go fight in Yemen? WHAT? Seems like they want to do US bidding and get back into good graces of the Saudis despite what they are doing in Gaza.