The US said it would consider revoking its recent designation of Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists if the Iran-backed militants cease their shipping attacks in and around the Red Sea.

In case y’all wondering how the whole operation Prosperity Guardian is going.

  • pingvenoEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    Why? It’s not like terrorist attacks on ships hurts Israel to any significant degree. It’s hurting Yemen more, in practice.

    • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      7 months ago

      Actually, pissing off the United States is a clear demonstration that it is working.

      Israel gets their guns from whom? Whom suffers the most from this situation? Sure it didn’t end the bombing of Gaza because israel is a fascist State. Punching the wealthy in the purse might be the only thing they actually care about. Telling the ghouls that supporting genocide is going to cost you is actually good. Fuck you for saying it’s not.

      • pingvenoEnglish
        12·
        7 months ago

        It’s disrupted badly needed aid to Yemen by making one of their ports too dangerous to deliver to. It’s also disrupting aid flows to Ethiopia and Sudan. In normal times, 15% of world trade flows through the Red Sea, much of it involving countries that have no involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict or which have sided with Palestine. Despite what they say, the Houthis still have been hitting neutral vessels. making insurance rates too expensive for many trips. Obviously the US is partly just defending its own interests, but the Houthis are also just being destructive against the wrong targets.

        • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          7 months ago

          Sure, but what about the 500,000 people facing genocide and famine conditions in Gaza while the world just sends ships right on by into Israeli ports? It’s not great. I’m sure there’s food and medicine that’s really needed not getting to the people who do. However, foreign aid hasn’t fixed any of the issues in these regions and it’s wrong to assume that will change in the future.

          Furthermore, westerners will always pour out sympathies now that it’s a problem for them. In the past decade we’ve seen the Saudis ruthlessly murder the yemeni people at the behest of the United States. I’m not saying yours are, but most of this is crocodile tears and to pretend otherwise is deliberately ignorant or dangerously naive.

          • pingvenoEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            From what I understand, the most effective way to get aid in at this point would be land-based aid through the Rafah entrance. Unfortunately, Israel has apparently been slow walking inspections. Some shipments have gotten aid in, though that is likely to lessen after the World Central Kitchen attack. It isn’t the enormous volume that is capable through a larger land crossing, though.

            Edit: Also, sending aid through Israeli ports is a bad idea. Right wingers in Israel have been blocking aid trucks trying to get in. Whatever route is chosen, it needs to not be beholden to extremists.

    • AlsephinaEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      The fact that the US is pissed off to the point of considering this means it’s working.

      And why wouldn’t it? It’s directly stopping ships from supplying israel, and israel gets most of its imports from ships.

      • pingvenoEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        And why wouldn’t it? It’s directly stopping ships from supplying israel, and israel gets most of its imports from ships.

        You’re half right, in that it prevents shipments to the Red Sea port of Eilat. The problem is that that is not where most of Israel’s cargo flows through. Most of its cargo is brought in through ports along the Mediterranean Sea in the north. If that’s the aim, they’re failing.