Updated on 4/18/25 at 4:56 pm EST
On Thursday night, the US bombed the Ras Isa fuel port in Yemen’s Red Sea province of Hodeidah, targeting the facility with two attacks that killed dozens of civilian workers and paramedics.
According to Yemen’s Health Ministry, at least 80 people, including at least five paramedics, were killed, and 150 were wounded. The paramedics were hit by a second US attack on the facility that came after rescue workers had already arrived at the scene to help victims of the first strikes (watch graphic footage of the aftermath of the attack here).
While the US has shared virtually no details about its bombing campaign in Yemen since it began on March 15, US Central Command took credit for the attack on the fuel port, which has grave implications for millions of Yemeni civilians who are facing severe food shortages.
CENTCOM justified the strike on vital civilian infrastructure by saying the Houthis, who govern an area where about 80% of Yemenis live, “profit” off fuel that enters the port. CENTCOM did not claim it was targeting a military site.
“Today, US forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for over 10 years,” CENTCOM said. “The objective of these strikes was to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen.”
The command claimed it was not trying to hurt the “Yemeni people” despite the severe impact fuel shortages will have on Yemeni civilians.
“Bombing the Ras Isa fuel port is not just an attack on infrastructure, it’s an attack on the lifelines that keep millions of Yemenis alive,” Aisha Jumaan, president of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, told Antiwar.com.
“Without fuel, hospitals will cease to function, clean water will be scarce, and food supplies will diminish. We saw this during the Saudi blockade on Yemen where fuel shortages crippled hospitals, cut off clean water, halted farming, and stifled humanitarian aid,” Jumaan said.
“Similarly, we expect this bombing to deepen famine, fuel disease outbreaks, and worsen the suffering of millions. Yemenis have suffered so much, this will only deepen their pain and push even more families to the brink of survival,” she added.
The UN’s refugee agency said last month that tens of thousands of Yemenis are already facing famine-like conditions, and “a staggering five million more are acutely food insecure.” Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis starved to death or died of disease due to the US-backed Saudi/UAE-led war on Yemen from 2015 to 2022, which involved a blockade and failed to remove the Houthis from power.
CENTCOM said it bombed the port because ships were still delivering fuel to it despite the US re-designating the Houthis as a terrorist organization. “Despite the Foreign Terrorist Designation that went into effect on 05 April, ships have continued to supply fuel via the port of Ras Isa,” the command said.
Erik Sperling, the executive director of Just Foreign Policy, connected the US attack on the fuel port to its failure to deter the Houthis despite launching daily airstrikes in Yemen for over a month.
“Having failed militarily, US now aims to use starvation as a weapon,” Sperling wrote on X. “This will spike food prices, causing thousands of children to die of hunger. In 10 years of tracking US war in Yemen, this is the most explicit collective punishment against the Yemeni people that I’ve seen.”
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have vowed their attacks on Israel and blockade on Israeli shipping would only stop if there were a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.
A senior member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau has said the Houthis would stop attacks on US warships if the US stopped bombing Yemen. Trump administration officials have claimed they would stop the airstrikes if the Houthis declared they would stop targeting US ships, but there’s no sign the US is considering the offer since it’s really bombing Yemen for Israel.
The race to the bottom.
Is there a bottom beneath genocide, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and starvation? I just had dinner, I may need to vomit.
You'd have thought not. But now the superpower has decided to give Israel some competition.
The Houthis in Yemen should think deeply before continuing disrupting global shipping companies and targeting international airports. Yemen is facing a severe economic crisis, exacerbated by prolonged conflict and political instability, leading to a decline in GDP per capita and widespread poverty and food insecurity.
Plagiarized.
Do you have any contradictory evidence to anything I have posted?
That Yemen is poor? No. Why that is relevant is beyond me. Do you have any evidence that what you post isn't plagiarized?
Again, you have said nothing. The fact that Yemen is desperately poor and Relief Web: Yemen's reliance on imported food is significant, with 83% of daily calories intake coming from imported food. — Where are the Houthis getting all their arms, training, funding, intelligence to attack international ships? And what should be do about it?
Attempt to stay with subject!
Post links or shut the fuck up.
God is on the side of Yemen.
What we should do about it is surrender and ask for forgiveness and mercy of those we’ve wronged.
What God do you speak of? The Houthi movement became Yemen's Shia minority, containing 25% of the country's Muslims. They are a religious movement. Why are the Houthis so relevant to you?
Do you support anyone that attacks Israel regardless of the harm they are doing to their own Country, with an estimated 4.5 million people in Yemen internally displaced due to their internal conflict?
I speak of Jesus’ dad, poopsquauk, ever heard of him?
What’s the Houthis to me? Just cheering on the good guys who are living up to International law by opposing genocide with all their might and mane.
I support them or anyone who attacks Israel period. I look forward to the day we join their fight.
And it’s coming as sure as turning of the Earth.
Repent.
You can cheer on any terrorist organization that you want. That does not sound very Christian to me.
You support Houthis using up valuable resources attacking ships in the Red Sea while the humanitarian crisis in Yemen keeps getting worse — 21.6 million people need aid, including 11 million children, and more than 4.5 million are displaced.—- Your Christian values are not showing when it come to the greater good of the Yemeni people.
You are the one cheering on THE most terroristic organization ever spawned from hell.
You ate the one cheering on the humanitarian crises it created.
You ARE a hypocrite.
"Yemen is poor?…Why that is relevant is beyond me."
One the one hand, little pisser does that a lot:
Copies/pastes something with a general topical relationship to an article…or with no relationship…but, either way, is mentally incapable of integrating the plagiarism into an argument.
But on the other hand – as in this case – there are the half-veiled, 'homicidal intent' plagiarisms:
"Should think deeply" is the tip-off it was a veiled extortionate demand. Translation:
'Noncombatant Yemenis are vulnerable – a vulnerable "food insecure" population…
…obstruct US-Israel's genocide of Gazans, and the US will murder your vulnerable citizens with bombs and starvation…just like the US-Israel is mass murdering Gaza noncombatants as a method of war.
I couldn't take it any longer and blocked "it".
"I couldn't take it any longer and blocked 'it.'"
Get it…sickening engaging w/all-but-open genocide inciters.
But hope you won't kick yourself for persevering – imo yr yeoman work put the little butcher under a spotlight that – hopefully – will stick.
Thanks man. But I also look foolish doing it.
There is no foolish when you're fighting a 100+ Year Genocide. "A land without a people for a people without a land" dates to the late 1800s.
Have you, pipsqueak, "thought deeply" before supporting genocide, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, unlawful aggression, and forced starvation?
There is no ethnic cleansing or genocide, just an independent state responding to a genocidal attack and hostages taking. Hamas could stop this mess on any day of the week in the last 18 months.
Israel is collapsing after 100+ years of violent ethnic cleansing and genocide, including 58 years illegally occupying Palestinian lands. A status that does not give Israel the “right to self-defense” but Palestinians the “right to resist" — with violence.
Spend some time researching the law or skip posting fabrications, half-truths, and downright lies to a community that cares about it.
This has been responded to.
A several hour military raid conducted out of an open air prison blockaded for nearly a generation intended to kidnap soldiers for thousands of unlawfully in prisoned Palestinians and retrieve military intelligence can not be genocide by definition. Second, Hamas and its actions has made clear its war with Israel is not a war against the Jewish people.
As for the independent state, it was established on the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of the indigenous inhabitants. October 2023 has shown Israel's genocidal intent by attempting to achieve what it could not in 1948.
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Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-u-s-is-bombing-them-for-it/
You're not an international lawyer, that's a statement of both law and fact from one of 40 years.
The Houthis have thought deeply of disrupting global shipping, with honor and courage they're meeting their obligations under international law.
Just replace Yemen with Israel
"Israel should think deeply before continuing a genocide and occupying another peoples' land. Israel is facing a severe economic crisis, exacerbated by prolonged conflict and political instability, leading to a decline in GDP per capita and widespread PTSD and insecurity."
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Again, that is because of these Islam terrorist organizations that have cost Israel so much to defend themselves in both tax dollars and in wasted human resources of some of the brightest minds in the Midddle East, because of Israel's educational system.
You are right to despise and fear Islam. However, it's a reflection of your racism, arrogance and ignorance than anything to do with Islam.
If the Zionist ideology necessary to defend our cousins is "costing so much" and making them less safe, they should "think deeply" about abandoning a racist ideology that requires ethnic cleansing and genocide to be "safe."
And when you say "tax dollars," you mean our American tax dollars that subsidize the Zionist entity, right?
As for the "brightest minds" claim –its nothing more than overcompensation for a superiority complex. When an insular minority group believes itself to be special over all others, it exerts great efforts to excel in education, wealth, power perhaps initially as a defense mechanism. Over time, this overcompensation develops at the expense of other more important ideals such as humaneness, justice, goodwill, honesty and trustworthiness. This type of minority rule is no good for humanity, much less the minority group itself.
I can't begin to explain to you how much Israel has lost all of those ideals in the eyes of the rest of the world over the past couple of years. And who will suffer most because of it? Those of the tribe which above all seeks self preservation at the expense of everyone else including their own humanity.
Israel's "educational system" is a reflection of these contradictions. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli professor, has done detailed research on Israeli textbooks. In her book “Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education”, she concludes:
"Palestinians are either absent, dehumanized, or portrayed as violent threats."
Unless, you and those of "the tribe" like you, come to terms with "these Islam terrorist organizations," you will become that which you hate.
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Was there conflict in Palestine between Jews & Arabs before Zionism? – Dr. Zachary Foster, Law Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (for the moderator, "Short answer: no" 🙂
https://palestinenexus.com/articles/conflict-palestine-bw-jews-arabs-zionism
What does the moderator have to do with that question?
From other of my posts triggering auto-moderate I’d concluded that “jews” tripped the function. Since you have to do the work I summarized the authors conclusion 🙂
No, as I have great Muslim neighbors, including my doctor, but they are not Islamists with the religious obligation of holy war against the infidels. This is the 21st century.
Your aversion to so-called “Islamists” reveals more about your assumptions than it does about Islam or its adherents. You claim to have no issue with Muslims—only with those who take their faith seriously enough to seek political agency. But framing Islamists as inherently dangerous ignores history, context, and the right of Muslim communities to organize politically, just as Jews, Christians, secularists, and others do.
Your condemnation also smacks of irony. For centuries, the Jewish people survived statelessness through tight communal organization, often around centers of power. Now, when Muslims do the same in the face of occupation, authoritarianism, and foreign domination, they’re vilified as “Islamists.” Why the double standard?
As for “holy war,” that term is a Western invention, not an Islamic one. The Qur’an never uses the phrase, nor do classical scholars. The term jihad is far richer and more nuanced—it refers primarily to struggle, including the internal moral struggle, and when it refers to armed conflict, it is strictly regulated and defensive in nature.
Islam, as a comprehensive way of life, does not separate the sacred from the secular in the way Western liberalism does. This isn’t backward—it’s coherent. Submission to God in Islam entails integrating spiritual values into public life in the service of justice, equity, and human dignity.
Consider this verse:
"Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And God knows, while you know not."
This is not a call to conquest. It’s an acknowledgment of war’s moral gravity—something undertaken only when necessary, and never glorified.
There is nothing “holy” about war. But there is something sacred about resisting genocide, colonialism, and injustice. If jihad means opposing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the desecration of Al-Aqsa, and the dispossession of an entire people, then yes—the world needs more of it, not less, in the 21st century.
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So you’re fine with the secular Palestinian organizations that conducted terrorist operations against Israel (Fatah, PFLP, Black September, etc.)? It’s only the Islamic ones you have a problem with?
Why do you keep defending all these terrorist organizations that cannot even get a seat at the UN General Assembly?
For the same reason that I would've defended my cousins during WWII who were being persecuted by racist Germans who didn't believe the yehud had a right to a seat anywhere, much less the general assembly.
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There are 57 declared Muslim State at the UN General Assembly, all members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest voting bloc at the UN General Assembly. —Please think before you post
I know and you love their impotence. What you fear are the "Islamists" whose agenda most closely allies with the interests of the masses in those 57 Muslim majority countries.
Your sentiments are those of extreme jealousy. The tribe has been stateless for thousands of years. To survive and thrive it required that the tribe congregate around centers of power. Now you condemn the "Islamists" for seeking power.
Mighty racist of you.
Yemen is rich beyond measure.
It’s the West that’s impoverished.
Yemen has been victimized by foreign powers for some times now. Wars was imposed on Yemen by external powers who never cared about the sufferings of the Yemeni people that inflicted on them.
Bottom is top in the eye of a psychopath.
Helter skelter!
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Apropos!…!…!…. ….
Yemen has been on a race to the bottom for a long time, without provoking a war by attacking ships in international shipping lanes. Those are all acts of war and war crimes.
Yemen isn't even in the ballgame moron. The race is between the US and Israel. And those "war crimes" are trying to stop the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians by the two already mentioned players.
Got to get rid of the Houthis and their insurgency who gained power after the authorities tried to arrest their religious leader. It's difficult to pinpoint an exact number of deaths directly attributable to the Houthis, but the Yemeni civil war, in which they are a major combatant, has resulted in the deaths of over 150,000 people, with estimates of over 227,000 more dying due to famine and lack of healthcare.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has become one of the Middle East’s most potent non-state actors, with the confidence to indiscriminately attack the ships of many nations in international shipping lanes.
Plagiarized. Refuse to respond if you can't come up with a comment of your own.
If you have any contradictory evidence, please post it.
I answered that already in another part of this comment section where you used plagiarized material.
If you copy one journal's work without proper attribution, it's called plagiarism, but if express the work of many journalists, it is called research.
Your only ambition here seems to be to block me from expressing it. But you contribute nothing to conversation.
Replying to you is not blocking you.
In fact, it’s the opposite of blocking you.
No need to whine about people not buying what you’re selling. Try selling something better.
The AI bots are getting better, aren't they? I don't think this is a real person.
Bots would have to be programmed by idiots if he is one. He's real. How scary is that?
Ever work with programmers? There’s no shortage of idiots in that field, just like most of the rest.
Actually no. And I'll be the first to admit that I'm ignorant on the subject. And given the fact that "it" kept asking the same question even after I had already answered it, I would have to agree with you.
You guys respond without addressing the issue presented, You are not blocking me, you are attempt to block or minimize the facts presented. When I point that out, you again try to minimize it by calling it "whining"? Just address the issue if you want any credibility, and stop making it about me.
Any time anyone “addresses the issue” you copy and paste into a comment, you just ignore that, wait a little while, then copy and paste it again.
You’re not qualified to offer, or deny, credibility to anyone else here.
It is not about me! The point is the connection between Iran and the Houthis ambition in the Middle East.
What do you have to offer on this subject?
"It is not about me! The point is the connec-"
1/ Oh please don't get screechy. The situation is this:
As long as you refuse to post where you copy/paste text from, it will be 'about you.'
Because that's plagiarism, and plagiarism is intellectually dishonest – which comes first for most posters here.
2/ Genuinely want to peddle your 'issues'?
Don't want to be seen as intellectually dishonest?
Don't want to be discredited from the start for your chronic plagiarism?
Easy fix, little pisser. You know what you have to do.
Nice try. Still plagiarism.
Besides your only stock in the store, what is your contradictory evidence to anything I have posted? Please be specific
I guess you can't read.
"Besides your only stock in the store, what is your cont-"
Shut up and listen – you're still not getting it:
First, your serial plagiarism – that is, your core 'method' of communicating as a person – is essentially dishonest. And being a dishonest broker disqualifies you as a participant in this community.
That doesn't mean you'll be kicked off – just that you have no personal credibility.
And second, it is not one poster, wars r u.s., that is making that point. This is not about you and one poster:
wars r u.s. evidently speaks for the dominant view of this community.
It took a little while. But everyone recognizes what you're doing now. Everyone is on to you.
You got found out. You got caught. You're busted.
You deficient characters can only make it about me, but cannot give an academic response..
Not there yet????
Explosion Destroys Building at Northrop Grumman Solid Rocket Motor Facility
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/explosion-northrop-grumman-solid-rocket-motor/
Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
Houthis can stop all this by just declaring no more attacks on Israel, on international shipping and on US warships. And of course keeping their commitment. But they won't. The Houthis rather fired a few missiles at Israel and get some headlines. The US wants to stop this. The destruction of Yemen's energy system is the correct tactic. US should also block all shipping by air and water into Yemen. Without energy the Houthis can not build new missiles or move them into firing positions. The blockade prevents shipments of missiles into the country. Will civilians get hurt? Of course. The Houthis leadership knows that is the price of going to war. They don't care.
The US regime was murdering people in Yemen (including pre-teen American girls) long before the shipping attacks began. “The latest excuse” is not necessarily the same thing as “the real reason.”
The Houthis rather fired a few missiles at Israel and get some headlines.
Will civilians get hurt? Of course. The Houthis leadership knows that is the price of going to war. They don't care.
No, they fired those missiles to stop the Israeli slaughter, so they do CARE. YOU DON"T. But you once more justify terrorism as long as the "good guys" are doing it. And you use all the same sickening talking points you did while condoning Israels ongoing slaughter.
All provoked, funded, supported, and armed by Iran, who is also not bastion of human rights.
You don't read much do you? That bullshit has been debunked, and it doesn't even matter if it were true.
What is your primary source. And where do you think this impoverished nation gets its weapons, training, funding, and support from? Please be specific
My source is right here at antiwar.com. But you're only here to troll so you wouldn't have read that the Houthis don't take their marching orders from Iran. But again, even if they did it wouldn't change a thing. What the Houthis are doing is noble and just.
The Houthi movement became Yemen's Shia minority, containing 25% of the country's Muslims. They are a religious movement. Why is that relevant to you?
Do you support anyone that attacks Israel regardless of the harm they are doing to their own Country, with an estimated 4.5 million people in Yemen internally displaced due to the internal conflict?
Middle East Council on Global Affairs: April 19, 2024, Yemen — Over the past decade, Iran has emerged as a key regional player in Yemen. –Take a read!
Human Rights Watch- World Report 2o24: Houthi forces continued to receive support from Iran. —Take a read
Provide links please, with less of a bad attitude!….
lol
It is so easy to pull up any human rights organization's reports on Yemen if you were really interested.
Be specific as to what you actually disagree with? Give the readers something to work with. Why do you think Iran is not providing weapons, funds, training, intelligence to the Houthis?
Provocative much?!…..
Nice dodge!
You're the one dodging.
I will try again: How is attacking international ships in the Red Sea, and firing missiles into Israel helping the good people of Gaza or the starving masses in Yemen? Who has it helped? Please do not dodge the question
Jesus Christ, why don't you wait until I reply to the first time you asked the same god damned question? That's three so far. Man, you an irritating piece of shit
Why Jesus Christ? The Houthi movement became Yemen's Shia minority, containing 25% of the country's Muslims. They are a religious movement. Why is that relevant to you?
Do you support anyone that attacks Israel regardless of the harm they are doing to their own Country, with an estimated 4.5 million people in Yemen internally displaced due to the internal conflict?
And how is that relevant as to WHY the Houthis are doing what they are doing? They are trying to stop Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. They have repeated that over and over. It doesn't matter where they get their weapons or who backs them. Their cause is noble and just. Stop deflecting.
Again, how is attacking international ships in the Red Sea, and firing missiles into Israel helping the good people of Gaza or the starving masses in Yemen? Who has it helped? Please do not dodge the question
Of course it's not helping since the superpower has sided with those that are doing the slaughtering. So, put the blame squarely on the US for having the same morals as the Israeli butchers. The Houthis are doing something that the rest of the world SHOULD be doing.
I will try again: The Houthi movement became Yemen's Shia minority, containing 25% of the country's Muslims. They are a religious movement. Why is that relevant to you?
Do you support anyone that attacks Israel regardless of the harm they are doing to their own Country, with an estimated 4.5 million people in Yemen internally displaced due to the internal conflict?
I support the Houthis REASON for attacking Israel. The killing of those "good people of Yemen" you pretend to care about is on the US who is enabling Israel continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. I don't support them. But keep trying to twist it into you caring about the people in Yemen if you like.
Your ignorant opinion is duly noted.
The Houthis’ attack on ships supplying Israel was clearly intended as a powerful protest against Israel blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, as they stated numerous times. They personally had nothing to gain from their actions, which makes it all the more heroic. What they did do, however, is expose Israel and the US as the complete shams they are whenever they profess to be forces for good in this world. Similarly, the actors on Oct 7 has to know they would be dealt severe blowback and I certainly can’t say it was worth it. But know this, the world has finally seen the unadulterated horror of what Israel is about and there’s no going back now.
Then don't complain when Israel and the US and others respond to being attacked.
Apparently you are unable to see things in other than a vacuum, completely expected from a myopic Zionist. The problem isn’t that a) US and Israeli ships are being attacked, the problem is b) Israel is carrying out a genocide. Solve b) and a) vanishes.
Take a read!
Post a link.
"Middle East Council on Global Affairs: April 19, 2024….Human Rights Watch- World Report 2o24"
Now was that so hard? Hmm, little pisser?
"What is your primary source?"
Sorry, lil' pee – but you claimed "All" Houthi activity is "provoked, funded, supported, and armed by Iran"…
…so it's on you to support yr claim w/"primary sources" and "specific" supporting quotes.
C'mon, lil pee stain – don't stand there stinking. Get to work. Chop-chop!
No, Yemen has been facing a severe economic crisis for a long time, exacerbated by prolonged conflict and political instability, which has lead to a decline in GDP per capita and widespread poverty and food insecurity.
Plagiarized. AGAIN.
If you have any contradicting evidence to anything I have posted, please educate the readers, instead of attempting to be cute?
Please try not to dodge the question
Whether what you said was factual has nothing to do with whether you plagiarized it or not. God, you can't even speak for yourself AND you're stupid.
It called research! Human Right sWatch: Yemen remains one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. More than 18.2 million people need humanitarian assistance. Warring parties, especially the Houthis, have perpetrated new waves of violations, including arbitrarily detaining and forcibly disappearing dozens of staff of United Nations agencies and civil society organizations since May 31. The Houthis also began attacking ships in the Red Sea in November 2023 and firing rockets toward and into Israel, amounting to possible war crimes.
It's called plagiarism if you pretend to use it as your own.
I just gave a source, and you have no contradictory evidence, so you keep repeating plagiarism in a weak attempt to block it.
Direct links are always appreciated, as is common courtesy…!
So if the Bible says "The Lord loves a balanced scale" or if I say it, does that mean I plagiarized God? The important thing to take away from it, is no one wants to be cheated, and not who said it first.
None of what you said is relevant as to why the Houthis are doing what they are doing NOW. So, you not only plagiarize, but you also plagiarize irrelevant shit.
It is not relevant to you that Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea and firing rockets toward and into Israel, amounting to possible war crimes, at an unnecessary cost to Yemeni civilians?
Do you support the ambitions of Iran and the Houthis? Please do not dodge the question
What is relevant to me is WHY the Houthis are doing what they are doing. Once more, they didn't attack ANYONE during the cesae fire. They have stated repeatedly that they will stop attacking when Israel stops the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. It's really quite simple. And since you're simple minded, you should even understand that.
The Houthi movement became Yemen's Shia minority, containing 25% of the country's Muslims. They are a religious movement. Why is that relevant to you? Do you support anyone that attacks Israel regardless of the harm they are doing to their own Country, with an estimated 4.5 million people in Yemen internally displaced due to the internal conflict?
People are responsible for what they do.
For example, Hamas is responsible for the murders committed on October 7, 2023 and the Israeli regime is responsible forthe atttempt at genocide in Gaza. The Houthis are responsible for their attacks on ships, and the US is responsible for its murders of Yemeni civilians.
Israel is responding to genocide, only Hamas wants to keep this going by not releasing all the hostages and laying down their arms.
Israel is responding to genocide
Bullshit. A one day attack is NOT an attempt at genocide. Responding with 18 months of slaughtering innocents is. If pictures were taken of Gaza and Israel before and after Oct 7th, which one would look like it was the subject of an attempted genocide? Please do not dodge the question.
The truth is that since 2005, Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza have launched over 20,000 rockets and mortars at Israel, carried out more than one hundred suicide bombings, and dug dozens of terror tunnels into Israeli communities.
Keep in mind that every rocket fired into Israel is an act of war, and ever rocket fired int Israel's civilian populated areas are war crimes. — Israel has waited too long to put a stop to it. I support Israel for the most part, I do not support unprovoked war crimes.
Post a link.
And, again, none of that, even if true, has anything to do with why the Houthis are doing what they are doing presently. And that would be their desire to stop Israel from continuing the slaughter of innocent Palestinians. They have stated that REPEATEDLY. And if you noticed when there was a "cease fire" (that Israel ignored by killing over 150 from January 19th to March 18th)), the attacks on the shipping lanes stopped. So, whether Iran or any other regional actor is supplying the Houthis is totally irrelevant as to WHY the Houthis are doing what they are doing. So, maybe you can go find some plagiarized material that can refute that simple fact and comment as though it's your own.
How is attacking international ships in the Red Sea, and firing missiles into Israel helping the good people of Gaza or the starving masses in Yemen? Who has it helped? Please do not dodge the question
I already answered that.
Where?, certainly on on this website
It's called an AI bot.
It is called research, as the UN, including its agencies like WFP, UNICEF, and UNDP, have repeatedly issued reports highlighting the extreme poverty and food insecurity in Yemen.
These reports detail how conflict, economic downturn, and rising inflation which have exacerbated the suffering of millions, leading to widespread malnutrition and a need for humanitarian assistance.
I don't give a shit if it's factual, it's still plagiarized. And it isn't even relevant.
If it is not relevant, you would not be trying so hard to block this information.
How is that commenter "trying to block" anything?
While your comment is a slightly re-worded paste of an AI result, it's modified enough and short enough to not really qualify as plagiarism. Congratulations on mixing up your repetitive cut and paste talking points a little.
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The only thing that is important is if you have any contradictory documentation to anything I have posted. Just because you do not like it, does not mean anything
If it agreed with your narrative, then you would only give it the thumbs up.
Why would I need "contradictory documentation" to notice that you copy and paste AI slop and that no one's trying to “block” you from doing so?
"While your comment is a slightly re-worded paste of an AI result, it's modified enough and short enough to not really qualify as plagiarism."
Good catch…But as a matter of record, "peepsqueek" regularly outright word-for-word plagiarizes long passages of text too:
lil' pee ["Witkoff Says Iran Must ‘Eliminate Its Nuclear Enrichment’ Program, antiwar, 4/15]: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/01676c35ecd21100ad495986f68e937f83da8094840cc6602878741535f88930.png
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Why would I want to block you plagiarizing articles that are about Yemen's dire economic situation? It's irrelevant.
Because a fortune in resources are being spent to attack international shipping in international shipping lanes.
Really? Otherwise, the Houthis could lift Yemen out of their dire economic situation? Good one.
No, they could not, they are only making it worse by spending all those resources and man hours and accomplishing nothing in return to the good people of Yemen.
Stop with "the good people of Yemen" bullshit. You don't give two shits about them. And I already answered that qustion. You keep asking the same questions over and over regardless of if they already had been responded to.
I ask the same questions because you keep dodging them.
I don't know anyone in Yemen, but you never mention 4.5 million people that are displaced in Yemen due to their civil war. Basically a Shia/Sunni war, again.
They are accomplishing something. They are showing the world what true courage looks like, something Israel has never known.
Bot.
A human doesn’t repost the exact comment over and over in the same thread. It’s like spam.
Yeah, I blocked him. He just ain't fucking worth it. I have a sickness. I just can't stop feeding the trolls.
The AI bots are getting pretty good now, aren't they? What a waste of electricity and CPU cycles which could instead be doing some good researching materials science or medical advances.
Best bot ever:
Hasbara Hitch: Pro-Israel Social Media Bot Goes Rogue, Calls IDF Soldiers 'White Colonizers in Apartheid Israel”
https://archive.ph/vNsgZ
It learned!
The blockade prevents shipments of food and medicine into the country.
FTFY.
Ever live in a country where the energy system is under attack? I have, that was the tactic pioneered by the Sendero Luminoso when I lived in Peru. Know what happens? Not freaking much. No power means no ports operate, no refrigeration, no schools, no hospitals, no transportation, no telecom, no banks, pretty much all of modern civilization shuts down.
Why on Earth do you think this is the correct way to treat the 99% of the population which has little to no voice in how their country is run? If the Palestinians were to magically acquire the ability to shut down the US electrical grid do you think that would be a fitting punishment for the 70+ percent of Americans who disapprove of the genocide? Or are we just somehow "special" and should be exempt from such concerns?
I disagree with you frequently, but rarely as emphatically as this post (perhaps because of my personal experience). Collective punishment against innocents is ALWAYS wrong.
What if the Houthis had an Air Force and bombed the oil city of Houston?
Provacetures want us to argue amongst ourselves to keep us off points….
we expect this bombing to deepen famine, fuel disease outbreaks, and worsen the suffering of millions.
Time to hang their banner, put on their codpiece, and strut around declaring "Mission Accomplished".
Saudi Arabia tried that before (under US direction) and failed miserably. Yemen is an extremely hard nut to crack.
US direction, with US satellite data and US intel and US-supplied weapons and . . .
You live by war, you die by war.
What is still surprising is how the US – both parties – can still insist that we are the strongest, best, most moral and richest country on the planet by simply killing anyone who does not obey?
Biden – you could not make America great by shipping bombs to the Ukraine and to Israel. And
Trump – you cannot make America great again by shipping bombs to Israel and then on top of it keep bombing Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and who knows where else.
No country is threatening US… so the so called Making America Great Again should little to do with foreign policy…!
All in a day's work for our wonderful hegegon.
Complementary info from the Resistance's POV (both Palestine, first segment, and Yemen, second part):
Houthis retaliated by targeting both USS Carl Vinson and Harry Truman…!
The US acts just like its own mad dogs in Gaza are acting. Not a surprise. The US has been more than just "complicit."
Now it is in the open, no denying possible. Birds of a feather flock ……………..