A senior member of Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, has told Drop Site News that Yemeni forces would stop attacks on US warships in the region if President Trump halted his bombing campaign on Yemen.
“We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau. “If the US stops targeting Yemen, we will cease our military operations against it.”
Both President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have said the US would stop bombing Yemen if the Houthis stopped attacking US ships. However, the Houthis were not attacking US vessels when the US restarted its airstrikes in Yemen on March 15.
President Trump launched the bombing campaign in response to the Houthis’ announcing they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping due to Israel imposing a total blockade on Gaza in violation of the ceasefire deal. The Houthis had ceased attacks when the truce deal was implemented on January 19.
Al-Bukhaiti said the Houthis would continue its ban on Israeli shipping and attacks on Israel until there was a ceasefire in Gaza. “When the Zionist entity stops its genocidal crimes in Gaza and allows food, medicine, and fuel to enter, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, we will cease all military operations against it,” he said.
Al-Bukhaiti said the Houthis would respect an agreement that would involve them not targeting US warships or commercial shipping while they still enforced a blockade on Israel but called on the US to pressure Israel to end its genocidal war.
“If Trump truly seeks peace, as he claims, his efforts should have been directed at pressuring Netanyahu to implement the ceasefire agreement, which includes lifting the siege on Gaza and allowing food and medicine to enter. Only then will we stop all military operations against the Zionist entity,” al-Bukhaiti said.
The Drop Site report noted that the Houthis have not targeted an American commercial ship since December 2024. The Yemeni group began targeting US commercial shipping in January 2024 in response to the bombing campaign that President Biden launched against them.
Both Biden’s and Trump’s bombing campaigns failed to deter the Houthis, who have been launching attacks on Israel, US warships, and US air assets over the past few weeks despite daily US airstrikes. From 2015 to 2022, the US backed a brutal Saudi-UAE war against the Houthis, which involved airstrikes, a blockade, and a ground campaign, and failed to remove them from power.
Trump changes his mind so often that signing anything with him means nothing if he decides that he no longer wants to uphold the treaty.
True. Jeez, imagine once his mind goes full Biden / Reagan-term-two ! He'll be deploying the Montana Air National Guard to fight back the tides in San Diego.
Trump is currently far ahead of Crook Biden's mind 40 years ago. We need not try to imagine any drivel you emit. I do not want to imagine your mind at the present time.
Bear in mind (pardon pun) that mental decline in the elderly may be an exponential or logarithmic progression, not a linear one.
If we humour your estimate of Trump’s mental state “40 years ago” it may well be that Trump’s mind in 2026 is only 4 years ahead of 2024 Biden; 4 months ahead of senile Biden by 2027; on par with outgoing President Biden in 2028; and we have a completely mentally incapable Trump in 2029.
You can imagine my mind at the present time; OR you can just ASK me and I’ll tell you as best I can.
I have no work stress; nominal background relationship doubts; and at worst the usual self-doubts and apprehension about the volume of editing work yet to do on the sci-fi novel I’m writing. That’s where my head is at.
Also I need to come up with a name for my RPG character in the game of RIFTS my friends & I may be hopefully starting tonight. That’s foremost in my mind.
Another hateful comment from the resident MAGAT!
Trump is an idiot. Changes his mind constantly with no regard for damages he is causing. He clearing not mentally stable.
Babbling leftist, you as usual were unable cite a single thing Trump changed his mind on. Negotiations do not count, because they involve posturing. Have fun making up stuff.
Defending Trump.
That fascist filth?
Are you fascist filth too?
By your definition he never his mind because negotiations don't count. LOL. What a stupid measurement. Just plain dumb.
Trump is a conman, he has no integrity and no ethics.
It's a good move by Ansar Allah. The Houthinese know that the US only attacks Yemen because A-A attacks the Apartheid State of Israel, and this offer (when flatly rejected by the USA; expect the "we don't negotiate with terrorists" cliche) will re-demonstrate to the world in whose sole interest the Americans are acting.
That's the situation: it is not that Yemen is at war with the USA, it is that the USA is at war with Yemen. Yemen has only declared war on Israel and it has done so in upholding the Convention against Genocide, the war is strictly in defense of the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, subject to the worst genocide the world has seen in almost a century.
… And what is the possibility of US stops bombing Yemen and let Israel doing the dirty work…?!
Not sure because it’s Trump’s decision and Trump is impossible to predict. On one side he’s very compromised by Zionists, Netanyahu included, on the other side he just suggested in press conference with war criminal Netanyahu that Israel took over the “leadership” of attacking Iran, which may be seen as code for: “you want war with Iran, go ahead and do it yourselves”, we’re not in the mood right now, minor vassals of Outremer. Or it can be seen as invitation to create a casus belli, as Iran already owes Israel one unfulfilled revenge (“true promise three”).
Something I think I learned when meditating about time is that only the past is real, the future is yet to be created, largely by us the ones who live (we may be able to predict the future but only to a limited extent, things can always go wrong… or right if our prediction was “doom”). The future is not yet real and can thus be altered at every split second.
Not sure because it's Trump's decision and Trump is impossible to predict.
The only thing that is hard to predict is whether Trump does something stupid or he does something really fucking stupid.
Then put the blame elsewhere.
Trump does not know what responsibility is. He does not know responsibility comes with the job.
That is your congitively challenged and immaturely vulgar "analysis". Thanks for embarrassing yourself.
You're the one embarrassing yourself. You disappeared after it was obvious that Trump was no better than Biden and allowed Isrrael to resume their genocide with his blessing. You're an assclown.
Perhaps some of his fellow cultists noticed he seemed to be experiencing doubts and bundled him off for a couple of weeks of re-education.
It worked.
MAGAT sucker alert!
Lol, and true. He plays Chinese Checkers like I play the violin.
"…that Israel took over the "leadership" of attacking Iran…"
Don Genocide's statement echoes of the USA "leading from behind" in Libya – the USA sees a dream realised, but without the accompanying responsibility for having started (another) unjustified war of aggression and with enough "outs" once the ASI's war against the IRI inevitably falls ATS (All To S**t).
Exactly. Especially for Trump. He wants to keep the ledger clean on "started wars". He can enable a genocide but damn it, he hasn't started any new wars. And I won't even mentioned what he's done in the wars he has inherited.
Most often the USA is "LEADING FROM BEHIND" little defenseless nations are some exceptions, like Grenada. But even in that case Reagan needed some little pacific nations telling the world they feared Bishop, I think that was his name.
But… there is also the Present that everyone should be focused on…! Past is past and done, no matter how real is… And the Future thinking may bring anxiety, fear, and frustration…!
Well, the present is ultimate such a thin instant that strictly speaking only exists as boundary between the past and the future, the creative thin line in which the Universe is being created *right now* (senso strictissimo of “right now”). Naturally, for practical reasons, we do include variable chunks of the recent past and of the “soon” (near-future) in our common sense usage of it but it is a composite and it doesn’t have a strict span even, depending on context.
Our decisions and actions should be free from the dogma of the past and fear and anticipation of future… Otherwise they are farse…! That's why being in the present is so important…!
That’s postmodern idealism framed to appear as fake liberation (both the past and future are presented in negative terms). Reality (which is the past) cannot be tampered with but it is the foundation on which we create, we like it or not.
My way of liberating myself from the tyranny of History was largely to learn about Prehistory (incl. anthropology of modern peoples living largely as in the past, especially the last hunter-gatherers). That’s because human History (incl. Prehistory) has quite apparently the following stages:
1. Primitive hunter-gatherer communism (c. 200,000 for H. sapiens to c. 7000 BCE at my Basque location)
2. Neolithic transition (often still “primitive communism” or something quite close to it but clearly needing more sophisticated institutions due to numbers), c. 7000-3000 BCE at my location.
3. Landownerism-Warlordism-Patriarchy (sometimes called “civilization” but also “barbarism”, depending on cities and writing), I also call it the Age of Metals (c. 3000 BCE to the late 18th or even well into the 19th century at my location, which was anyhow particularly attached to “peasant democracy of socialist tendencies”, most other geographies were much worse off).
4. Capitalism or Industrial Era, which is probably transitional to some form of future socialism or communism, as it’s clearly unsustainable.
Thus by embracing “primitivism” I could better understand what was wrong with that other layer of Reality, of History, and my own contradictory feelings about the 4th stage, which is very problematic but has been also decoding (by sheer mercantile corruption) the 3rd stage, which is even more painful (slavery at the essentials).
Said that, there are limits in our past: war and cruelty are there even in primitive communism and ultimately we’re drive to observe our closest living cousins: bonobos and chimpanzees, the former more matriarchal and sexually liberated than anything humans ever had, the latter quite brutal often (and patrifocal at least, the concept “patriarchy” can’t really apply without property). So, yes, ultimately there are limits in biology and even in physics probably. Perfection is not possible and, as the Spanish saying goes: best is enemy of good.
As for the future it is open, as it does not yet exist. We can gaze into it, sorta, but we can only see potentialities, opportunities, chances, probabilities… ultimately it’s (to some extent or another) in our hands to create, we are the lesser (finite, mortal) slices of the Divine in this perpetual creation. So I see the future not as something to fear (death will only liberate us from our task and be the unavoidable end point of our history, our living reality, our legacy) but as epic act of creation.
USA attacks on Yemen are unjustified. The zionist stain in US policy must stop.
We have a ruthless criminal ruling elite in the WH. All wars are criminal not just what Putin does. But it takes good will on both sides to use common sense and willingness to consider the other sides needs.
Good word choice, "stain," blood's a hard stain to remove and we're covered in it.
And who ordered them? Trump. Go ahead, say it. TRUMP. The same guy that bitched about Biden bombing Yemen. And I bet you bitched about Biden bombing Yemen too, but I also bet you mentioned his name.
Trump supports them. You support trump. Thus you support the attacks.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/steve-witkoffs-iran-mission-holds-seamless-possibilities
If the US neutralizes Iran's and Ansar Allah's strategic capabilities, the Greater Israel Project will have a higher probability of achievement. How many Shia and Sunni Muslims will become impoverished or killed for the GIP to become realized?
How serious is Tehran toward offering Western investment opportunities to businessmen such as President Trump and Witkoff? The offer temporarily mitigates the drumbeat of war against Iran. It almost demands an attitude change from the Trump team regarding his schizoid peace overtures.
"How serious is Tehran toward offering Western investment opportunities to businessmen such as President Trump and Witkoff?"
It's a brilliant play by the Persians in at least two regards. One, it could move both countries into a place where entangling trade agreements precludes war between them. And two, it's astute recognition that Trump only cares about money and can be won over by playing to his overriding attribute (greed – not ego, this time).
I see you see to deliberately misunderstand negotiatons, but please continue with your "all Trump's fault" narrative if it makes you feel good.
The US doesn't do peace. Keep your head in the sand if it makes you "feel good."
Who would trust Trump and his business partners?
Voices of reason are certainly heard clearly!….
Why is Yemen principled and the US is not?
Not a true statement…! Their narrative was International Shipping (Israelis included) which was False to begin with…!