🇮🇱 Though “Irish” hypocrites preach that the world must “never again” let innocents like Ettie Steinberg die at the hands of monsters, they are the very monsters who perpetrate these crimes in #Palestine, #Syria, #Yemen, and #Ukraine.

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🇾🇪 Yemen may be slated as the poorest country in the Arab region, but it is emerging as posing the most potent threat to Israel. In the past week, the Yemenis have detained three Israeli cargo ships as they transit through the Red Sea.

There is poetic justice in this. Yemen doesn’t have much oil reserves. It has been devastated by more than eight years of war and famine, and yet it is showing a strength that puts so-called rich Arab and Muslim nations to shame over their venality and lack of integrity.

While Gulf Arab states like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates corner vast oil wealth and Muslim leaders like Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan talk tough, it is war-torn, impoverished Yemen that is taking any meaningful stand against Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea – a vital international shipping route – Yemen effectively has a veto on which vessels can pass through its territorial waters.

The Yemeni armed forces and the country’s Houthi rebel movement have declared solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocidal onslaught by Israel since October 7. They warn that all Israeli vessels will be blocked from passing into or out of the Red Sea.

The Yemenis are making good on their threat 💢

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#Yemen #Palestine #MiddleEast #Israel

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🇵🇸 The major European states are finally – at long last – making some noises calling for a ceasefire to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. What’s taken them so long?

It’s still pathetically insufficient and falls far short of a full-throated demand on Israel to stop its unbridled slaughter of Palestinians – 20,000 of whom have been killed in more than 70 days of relentless bombardment.

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#RedSea #Yemen #Houthi #MiddleEast #Gaza

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🇾🇪 The United States-led naval coalition announced on December 20 for deployment to the Red Sea purportedly to protect international commercial shipping has quickly run into troubled political waters.

European allies France, Spain and Italy are curbing their involvement. Australia has given it a miss. And so far, no major Arab countries have signaled their participation, apart from the tiny Gulf island nation of Bahrain which hosts the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet.

The 10-nation flotilla was heralded with much fanfare by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin with the stated objective of defending freedom of navigation through the Red Sea critical for cargo vessels and fuel tankers. That move followed numerous attacks on ships by Yemeni forces who said they would block the passage of Israeli-linked vessels as an act of solidarity with Palestinians suffering genocidal violence in Gaza.

Yemeni militants known as Ansar Allah (Houthis) in conjunction with Yemen’s armed forces say their embargo imposed on the Red Sea will continue until a ceasefire is called in Gaza and humanitarian aid is permitted entry to more than two million starving people.

The Yemens will give Washington a bloody nose, to say the least 🫣

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

#CIA #Houthi #MiddleEast #RedSea #Yemen

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🇵🇸🦅 Since the start of the Gaza war last October 7, 2023, the Middle East has been on fire, what many specialists predicted has now come true, the war has spilled over to Lebanon, the situation in Syria has worsened, the Houthis (Yemen) are mobilizing and stopping Western ships in the Red Sea to sail and there are almost daily attacks on the American occupier in Iraq by Kitab Hezbollah, the Iraqi branch of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

For the first time, the world can see genocide being committed “live” on TV and social media. And the West is silent for the second time in history ❌

💬 Read more by Sonja van den Ende @devendonline

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Yemen #Syria #MiddleEast

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🔔 China and Russia have been remarkably quiet, watching carefully the global tectonic plates shifting around in response to the ‘two wars’ (Ukraine and Israel’s ‘multiwar’). Really it is not surprising; both states can sit back to simply watch Biden and his team persist with their strategic mistakes in Ukraine and in Israel’s multiple wars.

The interlacing of the two wars will, of course, shape the new era 🏁

There are substantive risks, but for now they can observe with comfort from afar as a climatic juncture in world politics unfolds, gradually raising the pace of the attrition to a circle of fire.

💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke

#geopolitics #WorldOrder #Gaza #Yemen #MiddleEast #China #Yemen #NewWorldOrder

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🇾🇪 For better or worse, the Houthis are the only political and military force doing anything practical to demand that Israel pay for its acts.

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#Houthi #Yemen #MiddleEast #RedSea #Israel #UnitedStates

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