Breaking.....Yemen's Houthis attack U.S. warship in Red Sea

[el midgetron]

 

[Ringo]

 

[surada]

Yep. They are criminals. Shooting fishermen is like their raids on Lebanon and Syria back in the 1950s.

 

[surada]

Who are the Houthis and why did the US and UK retaliate for their attacks on ships in the Red Sea?

WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. and U.K. warships and aircraft launched waves of missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early Friday in Sanaa, it capped weeks of warnings to the group to cea…

www.wivb.com

The Houthis have sporadically targeted ships in the region over time, but the attacks have increased since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas and spiked after an explosion Oct. 17 at a hospital in Gaza killed and injured many.

That hospital blast marked the beginning of an intense militant campaign against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria, and on many commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.

The attacks have damaged commercial ships and forced international shipping companies to divert their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope.

As of Thursday the Houthis had launched 27 different attacks on vessels transiting the Southern Red Sea, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a Pentagon press conference.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Stupid lies.

The gazans can fish within 15 miles of shore.

They smuggled too many weapons by sea. Now they face the Consequences.

 

[surada]

Stupid lies.

The gazans can fish within 15 miles of shore.

They smuggled too many weapons by sea. Now they face the Consequences.

Nope. It's six miles.

Gaza fisherfolk can only ‘dream of fishing freely’ under Israel’s blockade

Dozens in Gaza staged a sit-in after a new wave of violations by Israel saw fishermen arrested, boats taken.

www.aljazeera.com

Fishers who operate off the coast of Gaza are constantly chased, harassed, intimidated and even killed by Israeli forces, he said. Seizures of fishing essentials like boats, engines and nets are also a regular occurrence.Aug 23, 2023
Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera › news

 

[surada]

They can only access a small portion of the sea, with a fishing zone limit of six nautical miles (11km) in the north and 15 nautical miles in the east. But many of the fisherfolk in the east lack adequate equipment or fuel to even make it all the way out to 15 nautical miles.

But even within those limits, Bakr said, Israeli forces have targeted fishermen from “half a mile” out.

 

[surada]

How much time have you spent loading ovens with Jewish babies?

Greg

The mistake of designating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization | Brookings

Trump administration is seeking to designate the Houthis, a local militia group that has seized power in Yemen's northern highlands, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. That would be a mistake.

www.brookings.edu

One of Donald Trump’s first foreign policy decisions as president was authorizing a Navy SEAL raid in Yemen. That operation, which he signed off on over dinner, was poorly planned, risky, and rushed. The result: several dead Yemeni civilians, including 10 children, and one dead U.S. soldier.

Now, as President Trump prepares to leave office, he looks poised to make another unforced error in Yemen. This time the Trump administration is seeking to designate the Houthis, a local militia group that has seized power in the country’s northern highlands, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. That would be a mistake. Designating the Houthis would be bad for Yemeni civilians, bad for peace talks, and, ultimately, bad for U.S. national security. It would also box-in President-Elect Biden before he even takes the oath of office, although perhaps that’s part of the attraction for exiting Trump officials.

For much of the past six years — under both the Obama and Trump administrations — the United States has been complicit in Saudi Arabia’s brutal and bloody war in Yemen. The U.S. trained Saudi pilots, sold the kingdom billions in weapons, and performed mid-air refueling for Saudi jets on bombing runs to Yemen, a shocking number of which resulted in civilian casualties. The U.S. bears at least some responsibility for those deaths.

When Saudi Arabia announced the start of the war — what it called “Operation Decisive Storm” — it did so not from Riyadh, but rather from Washington, D.C., signaling the importance of U.S. support. The U.S. reciprocated that same evening by announcing the formation of a joint intelligence cell in Riyadh. Saudi officials told the Obama administration the war should take about six weeks. It is now in its sixth year.

Along the way, the dead have piled up faster than international organizations can count. The United Nations, which gave up all hopes of comprehensive casualty figures years ago, calls Yemen simply “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” The tragedy, of course, is that the crisis is entirely man made.

 

[irosie91]

Yep. They are criminals. Shooting fishermen is like their raids on Lebanon and Syria back in the 1950s.

and the rapes on the beaches of Bat Yam---to your delight and the murders of school children
in Maalot----to your delight

 

[surada]

and the rapes on the beaches of Bat Yam---to your delight and the murders of school children
in Maalot----to your delight

The Israelis have been killing Palestinians and stealing land for too long, Rosie.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Nope. It's six miles.

Gaza fisherfolk can only ‘dream of fishing freely’ under Israel’s blockade

Dozens in Gaza staged a sit-in after a new wave of violations by Israel saw fishermen arrested, boats taken.

www.aljazeera.com

Fishers who operate off the coast of Gaza are constantly chased, harassed, intimidated and even killed by Israeli forces, he said. Seizures of fishing essentials like boats, engines and nets are also a regular occurrence.Aug 23, 2023
Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera › news

Tha ks. But only in part of the north. 15 miles everywhere else.

Know why? No, it's not to cripple the Gazan economy. It's because that's where the Iranian nutters smuggle weapons to the death cult that runs Gaza.

Have any of the fisherman asked the death cult to stop smuggling weapons to kill Israelis? Or do they just complain to reporters about Israel to cover for the death cult?

Easy answer.

 

[irosie91]

The Israelis have been killing Palestinians and stealing land for too long, Rosie.

the muslims have been killing jews and stealing their land and movable wealth for 1400 years----Is that "too long"? ----well----not for you,
surada. How do muslims acquire land?----even ABRAHAM----more than 4000 years ago, BOUGHT Hebron.-----how much did the rapist pay for YATHRIB?

 

[ActionJackson]

Perhaps you don't remember that Israel's attack on the USS Liberty was also done with impunity but Israel is supposed to be our ally.

Unfortunately, it Israeli lobby control of US Middle East policy that has caused not just the Houthis but all of the world's 2.2 Billion Muslims to view the US to be complicit in Israel's ongoing Gaza Genocide. (1)

The unconditional support of the US Government for any and every Israeli war crime and atrocity is not in America's best interests and will only further endanger American citizens and G.I. both at home and abroad.





(1). "A Textbook Case of Genocide"

A Textbook Case of Genocide

Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?

jewishcurrents.org

"Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?"

EXCERPT "The UN Genocide Convention lists five acts that fall under its definition. Israel is currently perpetrating three of these in Gaza: “1. Killing members of the group. 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” The Israeli Air Force, by its own account, has so far dropped more than 6,000 bombs on Gaza, which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world—almost as many bombs as the US dropped on all of Afghanistan during record-breaking years of its war there." CONTINUED

Thanks for the breath of fresh air. Hard to find an American who hasn't been thoroughly brainwashed and indoctrinated by FOX, CNN, and the Public Fool System!!

Remember the USS Liberty!!!!! And don't forget the Scumbags who tried to sink her.

 

[surada]

the muslims have been killing jews and stealing their land and movable wealth for 1400 years----Is that "too long"? ----well----not for you,
surada. How do muslims acquire land?----even ABRAHAM----more than 4000 years ago, BOUGHT Hebron.-----how much did the rapist pay for YATHRIB?

Muhammad didn't own Yathrib. He certainly didn't colonize Yathrib.

 

[surada]

Thanks for the breath of fresh air. Hard to find an American who hasn't been thoroughly brainwashed and indoctrinated by FOX, CNN, and the Public Fool System!!

Remember the USS Liberty!!!!! And don't forget the Scumbags who tried to sink her.

AIPAC gives lots and lots of money to congressmen and senators.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Imagine having a son or daughter out there and knowing this DC scum were literally going to sacrifice their lives for politics...

It’s absolutely horrifying! Even worse, is that Biden is making money from it

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Muhammad didn't own Yathrib. He certainly didn't colonize Yathrib.

Right, because he is probably a fictional character.

 

[surada]

Right, because he is probably a fictional character.

Never heard of that before. Why do you think Muhammad is fictional?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Never heard of that before. Why do you think Muhammad is fictional?

His absence in literature until long after his death, and the steaming pile of magical nonsense attributed to him.

For starters.

 

[surada]

His absence in literature until long after his death, and the steaming pile of magical nonsense attributed to him.

For starters.

What magical nonsense? The night flight was a dream.